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I have been playing about with Processing lately and coming up with some pretty cool artwork based on code.

This was pretty simple and I think the whole program was about 12 lines.

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“Emily in Paris,” a new series on Netflix, has provoked skeptical responses from actual Parisians who are happy to point out the abundant clichés in its story of a young American (played by Lily Collins) who takes a last-minute transfer to a marketing agency in Paris. Some fairly obvious culture clash moments ensue, along with […]

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