Miscellaneous Python Projects

This is a collection of my smaller Python projects that don't fit elsewhere.

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CalcPi

These are scripts I wrote to play with and visualize generating digits of Pi.

While researching that, I came across an article on Spigot algorithms for Pi, and their various Python implementations. The author seems to have discovered one of the fastest ways of doing that in Python, & I couldn't find any faster.

Using the generator function by GavalasDev, CalcPi.py & CalcTau.py live-print the digits in color to the terminal, and PiPixel.py & TauPixel.py use Pygame to draw digits as color-coded pixels. DigitCompare.py takes 1000 digits of half-Pi, Pi, and Tau, prints them out together in rows, coloring digits which overlap in either 2 or all 3 rows.

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Matrix

This is my version of the classic Matrix code-rain animation, for the terminal. Made this as a personal challenge on New Year's, and it turned out pretty nice. I've since made improvements, some alternate versions, and added Japanese kana. Might be Linux only, Ctrl+C to quit. New version here!

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Snake

This is a terminal-based Snake game I made, without using additional libraries. It's pretty basic, play area fills the terminal, so resize it to your liking. Use arrow keys or wasd to move, q to quit. To get arrow keys working, Esc key won't work quite right, and needs 3 presses.

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Spectrogram

I put this together while learning to use sounddevice & numpy's fft function. It's essentially just a reimplementation of sounddevice's spectrogram example, using Pygame instead of ascii. The _save version outputs timestamped images.

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TypingWPM

This is a little typing-speed-test I wrote, after seeing someone make something similar using Curses. I wanted to try doing it without Curses, and it worked! typingwpm.py should be pretty portable, just needs the pangrams.txt file.

Note: Slower terminals may bug after rapidly pressing 2 keys at the same time.

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