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What is a Logarithmic spiral? A logarithmic spiral steps around center at an additive rate while stepping away from center at a multiplicative rate. Increasing the distance from center at a multiplicative rate causes the arm of a logarithmic spiral to increase in size as it gets further from center. To illustrate, take a look at this photo of a spiral staircase:

Photo by: darijus

As you can see in the above photo, the number of steps ...
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I tried a couple different code highlighting plugins for WordPress and decided to use the aptly named "CodeHighlighter" by Wongoo Lee which is essentially an implementation of the well established and tested GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter. Installation follows the usual pattern: unzip, upload to your plugins directory, and activate the plugin from your Plugin Management screen in WordPress.

Once installed, adding highlighted code to your blog is as easy as ...
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I wonder what ActionScript looks like:

//
//
import flash.display.*;
import flash.geom.Matrix;
//
//
lineStyle(1);
lineTo(200, 0);
lineTo(200, 200);
lineTo(0, 200);
lineTo(0, 0);
//
//
function createClipGrid(name, depth, rows, cols, bmp){
	var clp = this.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
	var wi = bmp.width;
	var hi = bmp.height;
	var cellWi = wi/cols;
	var cellHi = hi/rows;
	var lastX = 0;
	var lastY = 0;
	var cWi = 0;
	var goalX = 0;
	var cHi = 0;
	var goalY = 0;
	var count = 0;
	clp.allCells = [];
	for(var i=0; i<cols ; i++){
		goalX = Math.round((i+1)*cellWi);
		cWi = goalX - lastX;
		for(var j=0; j<rows; j++){
			count++;
			goalY = Math.round((j+1)*cellHi);
			cHi = goalY - lastY;
			var trans = new Matrix();
			trans.translate(-lastX, -lastY);
			var cell = clp.createEmptyMovieClip("Cell"+i+"_"+j, count);
			clp.allCells.push(cell);
			cell.bmp = new BitmapData(cWi, cHi, bmp.transparent);
			cell.attachBitmap(cell.bmp, 10, "never");
			cell.bmp.draw(bmp, trans);
			cell._x = lastX;
			cell._y = lastY;
			lastY = goalY%hi;
		}
		lastX = goalX%wi;
	}
	return clp;
}
//
//
function drawLine (){
	lineTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
}
onMouseDown = function(){
	lineStyle(4, Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);
	moveTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
	onMouseMove = drawLine;
}
onMouseUp = function(){
	onMouseMove = null;
}
//
//
onKeyDown = function(){
	var myBmp = new BitmapData(200, 200, false, 0xFFFFFF);
	myBmp.draw(_root);
	createClipGrid("CG", 20, 5, 8, myBmp);
	//CG._x = CG._y = 200;
	for(var k in CG.allCells){
		var c = CG.allCells[k];
		c.xd = Math.random()*6-3;
		c.yd = Math.random()*6-3;
		c.onEnterFrame = tumble;
	}
}
Key.addListener(this);
function tumble(){
	with(this){
		_x += xd;
		_y += yd;
		_yscale -= Math.random()*5;
		_xscale -= Math.random()*5;
		if(_xscale<0 || _yscale<0)removeMovieClip();
	}
}
//
//

That's not too shabby.

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