Computer Geeks

Not just interested in computers

Brea Cummings, Michael Cole, Heidi Williams

BiRG

Bioinformatics Research Group

Expectations

Heidi:

"I expected a diverse group of people"

Brea:

"I expected a more formal, serious situation"

Michael:

"I expect I'll get interested in a project to work on"

Surprises

Real Geeks

BiRG Meeting

Sierpinski's Triangle

$x = 200;
$y = 200;

$gd = imagecreatetruecolor($x, $y);

$corners[0] = array('x' => 100, 'y' =>  10);
$corners[1] = array('x' =>   0, 'y' => 190);
$corners[2] = array('x' => 200, 'y' => 190);

$red = imagecolorallocate($gd, 255, 0, 0); 

for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
  imagesetpixel($gd, round($x),round($y), $red);
  $a = rand(0, 2);
  $x = ($x + $corners[$a]['x']) / 2;
  $y = ($y + $corners[$a]['y']) / 2;
}

header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($gd);

Connections

Self Awareness

Credits:

D. Carter. (2000). Color Blindness [Web log Entry] Retrieved from http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/color-blindness

C. Jackson. (2005, Fall). Talking Across Boundaries [Web log entry]. Retrieved from http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-28-fall-2005/feature/talking-across-boundaries