posted by on August 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Back at the end of June
Jürg Lehni and
Jonathan Puckey, released a wonderful new javascript library named
Paper.js. The great demos that they’ve done to showcase the framework were so enticing, I just had to try something out with it.
posted by on May 31, 2011 at 03:30 PM
With the release from Chris Milk and Google of the
3 Dreams of Black site for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi’s
ROME, WebGL is having a moment. I’ve been following along with the development of the underlying framework
Three.js for a while and this was the tipping point for me to do a little prototype with it.
I’ve recreated a piece of the UI from the HBO imagine website, simply click a photo to navigate to it. You can also click and drag to pan and use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
It’s easy to forget all the talented people you work with, now imagine you work at a company the size of GE. A place so packed with smart people they can highlight a new genius working there every day.
This is just what they set out to do and we helped them by creating a section on their global research site to do it. In addition to the site there’s a neat little desktop calendar app that you can download as well.
On a recent project I found myself needing a basic particle engine, long story short that part of the site never made it to launch but the desire to play around with particles stuck with me.
I have also always been meaning to go over Daniel Shiffman’s
Nature of Code tutorials. Robert always recommends them as a good starting place to understand vectors. With the addition of a native Vector3D class in
AS3 for Flash Player 10 that I had never played around with, this was a perfect storm of new toys.
posted by on March 09, 2009 at 11:11 AM
filed under:
Flash and
Video
So the new
Pitchfork has lunched with an iPod Touch takeover ad. The seamless incorporation of the top navigation bar into the ad is really delightful, it just makes it. It owes a debt to the recent
Wario Land : Shake It ad on YouTube but the execution is just as slick. Hopefully this sort of freedom to incorporate page content will become much more widespread.
posted by on April 15, 2008 at 02:16 PM
More than once I have been disappointed by the lack of depth in the Shuffle Songs option on my iPod. I expect that it will reach into its depths and dredge up some forgotten classic I have stashed on the hard drive, but sadly no, most often it seems to play my least favorite most heard tracks.
In order to combat this not so random, random I decided to create an Unplayed Smart Playlist. One simple rule: the play count of the song has to be zero. All of a sudden there were all those songs that I had forgotten about.
This, along with my Recently Added Smart Playlist, are now my favored as opposed to plain old Shuffle Songs.
