Galactic Looking Glass
Near Perfect "Einstein Ring" Discovered Massive celestial bodies bend the light passing around them. If the bodies are arranged just right, they act like a lense though which we can observe extremely...
View ArticleiPod Shuffle Review
I bought an iPod Shuffle this weekend. Before I bought it I couldn't find any reviews that addressed my own questions, so this is my own review. Disclosure: I'm on the PC side, and generally skeptical...
View ArticleProcessing Blogs
Processing Blogs syndicates the weblogs of people working with the Processing media programming environment. Tom Cardin did a great job setting this up. Hopefully I'll finish configuring a...
View ArticlePure Data 101
O'Reilly: Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data To create a program in Pd, you connect little boxes to one another with the mouse using graphic "patch cords." [...] Once you've created or loaded...
View ArticleContext Free
Context Free is program for generating recursive structures, based on Chris Coyne's CFDF grammer. It's easy to use, open source, and outputs very clear images. Within minutes, I was able to produce the...
View ArticleSummer Bits
I'm back from another summertime lapse in posting. Life has been pretty good, and very busy over the last two months. In July, I began a new job developing software for the government. My coworkers are...
View ArticleBrain Fusion Kodama Kid Icarus Kodama
Two of the best software synthesizers ever, ReBirth and RubberDuck, are now completely free. I tortured many a roommate with my awful ReBirth tracks in the 90's. I called the effort Brain Fusion, then...
View ArticleVisualComplexity.com
VisualComplexity.com lists 172 projects in complex data visualization, with images and summaries. Some favorites:Botanical Visualization of Huge HierarchiesFlight DensityWalrus (via Generator.x)...
View ArticleSodaPlay 2.0
Generator.x has a sneak preview of SodaPlay 2.0. PlayForge, the new construction and simulation environment, will include a public API allowing users the add and share new features....
View ArticleStigmergy
A lamppost covered in about 150 CD packaging stickers, outside the Best Buy location in Fairview Heights, Illinois. A wide variety of musical genres and time periods were present, and no other post in...
View ArticlePrelinger Archive
My friend Colin recently introduced me to the Prelinger Archives, a collection of educational and special interest films produced between 1927 to 1987. The "Most Downloaded Items" box on the right is a...
View Article3D Surfaces in Processing
eskimoblood has released a nice Processing library for 3D surface rendering. The possibilities are illustrated in this Flickr photoset, and in this video in which a surface pulses and deforms in time...
View ArticleDomo-arigato, Mr. Roboto
A giant Japanese robot escapes the studio to shoplift and beat up children. Awful music, great idea....
View ArticleSan Francisco Trip
Beth and I just got back from vacation in San Francisco on Sunday. See the photo set on Flickr....
View ArticleGame Mod
"Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it." See the video (Quicktime)....
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