My Software Projects

Laidout

This is a desktop publishing program for Linux I've been in the process of making for a few years now. I can finally use it to lay out my cartoon books. It can lay out pictures and lines in folded booklets, and even on top of arbitrary polyhedra (see also my Calehedron program). No text yet, but I'm working on it. It's supposed to be great for zines and books and such. It's now a project on sourceforge.net, so you can contribute!

See here for inflammatory reviews of other desktop publishing software I considered before starting to program Laidout.

The Laxkit

This is my graphical user interface toolkit that I've been making over the last few years. I originally had no intention of being so obsessed with it, but I keep thinking it will be worth it in the end. Most of my other software is built on top of it. Hopefully I will be able to squeeze a few years of use out of all my computer projects, before increasing scarcity of oil turns out the lights. This is also another project on sourceforge.net.

Here are some slowly developing side projects to do some neat things with the Gimp.

Here is a write-up I wrote for the Laxkit documentation about bezier lines and cubic tensor product patches.

Calehedron

Calendar program to create fancy polyhedron calendars, ideally it would allow scribbling and dropping pictures onto faces with wrap around. It really should have some sort of 3-d preview feature too. I am building these features into Laidout, and will not be working on this program any more. As it stands, there's just make the net, and map the months, saving as SVG.

Other Stuff

So here's a screenshot of a few random elements from the Laxkit.

Work in progress...

~~ TO DO ~~

	A polyhedron visualization program (for linux), handling arbitrary intersections and stellations of the traditional polyhedra, specifically geared toward solid-ish model construction, that is to say with materials somewhat thicker than paper.

	Image html gallery generator. Programs like webmagick, bins, galrey and the like have many features to recommend them, but they don't quite match my particular needs in as direct a manner as I might like. It really gets to be a pain to update all my cartoon and sculpture galleries manually. I've haphazardly programmed some scripts to generate pages, but I need to shape into something more coherent.

~~ WHAT I WISH WAS DONE ~~

Some sort of fancy 3-d data organizer, geared toward keeping track of news and notes from around the world. One might be directed to http://www.determinate.net/webdata/seg/tdfsb.html. One might also be interested in www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/intro.html, or perhaps look for City of News at xenia.media.mit.edu/~flavia/research.html.

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