A plumber having a quantum experience
Quantograph
Art toy to generate animated pixel art using quantum computation.
Just like normal computing is based on bits, quantum computing is based on qubits. How you approach a quantum computing project depends a lot on how many qubits you use. In this project, I am using 6.
The project uses Qiskit to implement the quantum programming, and runs inside a Jupyter notebook. You can use a web version here which requires no installation. Or you can run it locally from the source.
A tutorial based on this project can be found here.
github.com/quantumjim/quantograph
Awards
Scores
Ratings (show detail)
Overall: 2.3
Fun: 1.3
Production: 1.7
Innovation: 3.8
2% of respondents wished to disqualify the entry.
Respondents: 6
Files
| File | Uploader | Date |
|---|---|---|
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quantograph-master_rHCYYx9.zip
— final
Zip of github repo |
quantumjim | 2019/03/30 23:20 |
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ezgif-5-f592f32aeee1.gif
A plumber having a quantum experience |
quantumjim | 2019/03/29 14:47 |
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quantograph-master.zip
— final
A toy for making pixel art animations with quantum computation |
quantumjim | 2019/03/29 14:19 |
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Plumber_2019_3_2913352.png
Example animation |
quantumjim | 2019/03/29 12:58 |
Diary Entries
Minimal Mario
quantumjim on 2019-03-24 17:18
My project will be more of an art toy than a game. It'll use Qiskit (a Python framework for quantum computation) to make and manipulate images.
I'll limit myself to quantum programs of 6 qubits (no more and no less) to incorporate the theme. This will mean that the images will be limited to 2^6 pixels. In a quick test before starting coding, I found that this is only just enough to make a Mario.
Day 3
quantumjim on 2019-03-26 11:35
I turned Mario into a quantum program, and then back into an image. It takes around half a second, which is probably acceptable latency for allowing the player to see direct feedback.
I'd usually think that 6 qubits is too few, but using more would mean much longer runtimes. The restriction placed by the theme therefore allows me to explore possibilities I wouldn't usually allow myself.
Day 5: A PR to the Qiskit tutorials
quantumjim on 2019-03-28 15:09
My project turned into a potential Jupyter notebook for the Qiskit tutorial. Today I made a pull request
https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-tutorials/pull/577
I think this will be basically the final version. I'll make a more streamlined one for the final submission, but this is my quantum art toy: made from Jupyter widgets rather than pygame.
MVP complete
quantumjim on 2019-03-29 14:35
I have an MVP! I submitted something tagged as 'final version'!
Whether it really is the final version remains to be seen. But it is nevertheless usable.