Richard Willis

Over the summer of 2008 I decorated my bathroom. I knew from doing my kitchen the year before that the most painstaking and time-consuming part of the job would be tiling and I wondered if there was anyway it could be made less so?

I had just come back from BarCampBrighton, where I was inspired by Ollie Glass‘ workshop on writing genetic algorithms; something that turned out to be really simple. So I sat down, chucked some code together and produced this Tile Designer swf, built on a genetic algorithm:

Man, I thought Flash on the Beach was good… and I was right, it was! But BarCamp is better. BarCampBrighton2 took place at Sussex University over the weekend just gone (15th & 16th March, 2008) and I was there. It was my first BarCamp but it definitely won’t be the last. It was ENORMOUS fun.

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