PxRT

by Patrick on August 03, 2013 at 00:00

This was a simple project to play with an interesting bit of image manipulation.

It sorts the pixels of an image, either in each row or in each column. There's also an option for controlling the brightness threshold. Once a pixel is found crossing the threshold the sorting stops for that row.

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CBA Exporter

by Patrick on August 02, 2013 at 00:00

This is a program written for Geokinetics to manage the battery test results. A batch of batteries would be put under a 6A load, and the Computer Battery Analyzer software would generate XML files of the raw data. My exporter takes the relevant data from each XML file, formats it, and inserts it into a single Excel spreadsheet to manage the entire inventory.

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TCG Prototype

by Patrick on August 01, 2013 at 00:00

I started working on this when a friend was dissapointed by the lack of flexibility with the official game. It's still far from finished, but the UI and graphics rendering are largely complete.

This project uses C# and XNA, which may not have been for the best given its abandonment by Microsoft.

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PalinPrime

by Patrick on July 31, 2013 at 00:00

This was a problem posted to reddit from a job application's website. The goal was to find the first 7 digit number from within Pi that was both a prime number and a palindrome. It's a fun little problem, but I cheated a bit by loading a pre-calculated value of Pi into memory first.

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