Ironcoder V Winner: WikiPath by Ben Gottlieb
The Winner of Ironcoder V is Ben Gottlieb with his “WikiPath” Wikipedia screensaver. This screen saver followed random paths through Wikipedia, display each page in a tile on the screen. The code was really well written with some neat tricks that kept the code simple.
Runners Up:
Blurred Life - Adam Leonard A great game/screensaver combo. Try and guess if a blurred image downloaded from Flickr is about life or not-life.
CrepuscularLife - Josh Freeman A really fast and energetic Conway’s Game of Life screensaver.
LifeLike - Ian Gowen Another Conway Game of Life screensaver, used a really cool colour technique to add dynamic colour to cellular automatons.
Pixure - Joseph Wardell A strange screensaver that used genetic algorithsm to breed pixels.
Other notable entries:
Best Non-Screensaver: Viva - Daniel Jalkut
Most Complex Quartz Composer: Tree of Life - Chris Parrish
Only Non-Objective-C Entry: Life Saver - Chris Liscio
Most Amusing Source Code: S#!t Happens - Jim Turner & Kristie Turner
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:27 am
[…] Iron Coder weekend is wrapped up officially, as this round’s judge Jon Wight announced on the Iron Coder Blog. Ben Gottleib won with his WikiPath screensaver. Congratulations, […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 am
[…] Iron Coder weekend is wrapped up officially, as this round’s judge Jon Wight announced on the Iron Coder Blog. Ben Gottlieb won with his WikiPath screensaver. Congratulations, […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:02 am
[…] http://ironcoder.org/blog/2007/04/03/ironcoder-v-winner-wikipath/ […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 am
[…] a neat idea: Ben Gottlieb’s WikiPath is a screensaver that displays pages from a random path through Wikipedia. You might think that it […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Request:
Thanks for the download links. But how about links to the authors’ sites? It would be nice to know a little about the people behind the code.
Thanks.
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Will try. We need to sort out prize allocation and other things. Lots of information to process.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:10 am
The DMG for WikiPath isn’t working for me.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Carl, not sure what to say about that. Works for me and no one else has complained yet. Sorry!
April 4th, 2007 at 9:05 am
[…] Ben Gottlieb won last weekend’s IronCoder V competition. His entry, WikiPath, is a screensaver that follows random paths of pages through Wikipedia and displays each page it encounters as a tile on the screen. It’s a really neat idea, and fun to watch, too. Congratulations, Ben! […]
April 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
[…] We’ve been meaning to start a blog for a while, this seemed like a good excuse: over the weekend, I entered the Iron Coder contest and won! […]
April 5th, 2007 at 5:24 am
The DMG is broken for me too. Perhaps it’s only a problem on 10.3.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am
The Wikipath DMG will not mount for me either.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am
I’m using OS X 10.4.9
April 5th, 2007 at 6:18 am
How strange. I’ve uploaded a zip file here:
http://ironcoder.org/entries/ironcoder_5/Wikipath.zip
April 5th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Thank you, Mr. Wright.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Ironcoder V Reflections…
As some of you know, I participated in Ironcoder V last weekend. It was an absolutely fantastic experience. I would have written about it sooner, but this last week was the first week of the new term, and, as it usually is, it was extremely busy.
First…
May 9th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
At the moment, I’m more of a “spectator” than a participant in the IronCoder events. But for future reference, it might be good to also link to people’s weblogs. For example, I found that Ben has an updated (more stable) version of WikiPath:
http://standalone.com/blog/
October 6th, 2007 at 8:11 am
…Looks like all download links are broken
October 16th, 2007 at 10:41 am
In the process of updating. Apologies.