Perplexity Pro Cancelled

You really have to watch these AIs.  

Perplexity kept asked for more money, always more money.  And then I discover that they had already taken $200 from my account.  Cancelled, deleted, goodbye!

Various Tests Now Online

Ken Perlin pointed me to the onrender.com, that will host your little web applications for you.  To my amazement, it worked out.  Please keep expectations low, most of these are just finger exercises to see what I can do.  The only real work is at the bottom and it is called "CombinedSwarms".  All of these can be downloaded from a repository on github:

https://github.com/michaelwahrman?tab=repositories

Test of building a "directed acyclic graph", solitaire, flyover LA at night, traffic simulation and then Zoltar tells your future.

• DAG: https://ct5-a4-dag.onrender.com
• Cards (Klondike): https://ct17-a3-cards.onrender.com
• LA Night: https://ct58-a6-lanight.onrender.com
• Highways: https://ct30-a7-highway.onrender.com
• Zoltar: https://ct46-a8-zoltar.onrender.com

Then a silly Buffalo slot machine simulation (gambling is bad!), a simulation of a Joshua Tree star party called HighDesert, a weird flower distributor in MidiFlowers, and finally the real work at CombinedSwarms.

• Buffalo: https://ct36-a3-buffalo.onrender.com
• HighDesert: https://ct57-a3-highdesert.onrender.com
• MidiFlowers: https://ct55-a7-midiflowers.onrender.com
• CombinedSwarms: https://ct54-a6-combinedswarms.onrender.com

The traffic simulation, the flyover at night, the star party and the flowers can be driven by MIDI or with your mouse and are intended as backgrounds for synthetic music performances.

And finally, the famous Solari sign simulator at https://ct40-a12-solari.onrender.com/

MIDI Controlled Browser Based Video Backgrounds

The following are intended as prototype backgrounds to be used during live performances of synthetic music, presumably by Jill Fraser or anyone who wants to use them.  

If you do use them, please give me, or GlobalWahrman, credit.  I retain the copyright. 

 You should realize that in all apps are prototypes.  The MIDI controls, the imagery, the pacing, whatever all probably need to be tweaked.

I have put up videos of each of these on youtube, as listed below. 

Remember, these are videos of what are in reality interactive, browser-based, applications.  To use them interactively, and play with the speed and content, etc, you need to download the repository and run the index.html file in the browser of your choice.   I test these with Chrome but they ought to work with any browser.

CT57.A3.highdesert -- Joshua Tree Night Sky Star Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB_JWnsFuNo

Mysterious Flower Emitter 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUls36mKEY

CT30.A7.highways -- LA Traffic Simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_YWBYCiOg

LA Night Flyover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FCw1UsUYB8

All of these are available, or will be available, as a repository at 

https://github.com/michaelwahrman?tab=repositories

CT18 Retroflectivity for Open Space

The repository for the openspace retroreflectivity code can be found at:

https://github.com/michaelwahrman/CT18.B3.Openspace/tree/main

Zoltar Sees the Future

Zoltar is one of those arcade-based fortune tellers.  He looks something like the following.  You can find a real Zoltar on the Santa Monica Pier.

 In the absence of a good model of Zoltar, I have created with Claude Code a web browser based homage.  

To run it, download the following zip file, unzip it to your disk and find CT46.A7.Zoltar.html and run it in Chrome.  Other browsers should work.  You have to click on the browser window to get the audio to start.

There will be a repository on Github at https://github.com/michaelwahrman?tab=repositories