Android and iOS both now have nascent augmented reality frameworks which brings AR tantalisingly close to lots of peoples' pockets, including mine. Here are the results of my first foray, in a couple of cold evenings this winter (2017/18). Getting A Mobile AR App Working In A Single Evening The ...

Requirements For Human-Centric Record Locators Commercial institutions of all shapes and sizes use numbers to identify their records but humans generally have trouble memorising, recognising and even just reading numbers back correctly. Using a hand-written account number to transfer cash is dicy at...

When I was a child, Smarties were brightly coloured, candy coated, chocolate ovoids and they still are. Back then, they came in cylindrical tubes with a letter of the alphabet on the inside of the lid. I remember pink, purple, green, yellow, orange, red, light brown and dark brown Smarties. Later on...

I like tentacles. They're dextrous, they have suckers and they move in the most deliciously creepy way. I also have a long-running interest in something called 'procedural generation': using software and mathematics together to produce visuals. I recently built some procedurally-generate...

Procedural generation is the creation of form, colour or movement through direct calculation. This is in contrast to the more usual route of storing and retrieving pictures, animations or 3D objects pre-generated by humans. Proceduralism isn't a new concept - lots of contributors have embiggened...