Doug Pfeffer's Barbarian Blog

Hairrr

dougp@barbariangroup.com(Doug Pfeffer) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:59:50 -0400

A while ago I was playing around with hair simulation for an idea. I poked at on and off for a few months, and rather than letting it linger in obscurity, where something like that should, I’ve packaged it up as a Mac desktop app for you to try out.

I Am An International Artist.

dougp@barbariangroup.com(Doug Pfeffer) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:00:29 -0400

Despite a life of being a Philistine I am now an artisté.

Not too long ago I released a goofy Cinder app. It was a body simulator. Some folks got a chuckle out of it.

Next thing I know a German emails me.

Read on…

Mike Ma Yourself iPhone App

dougp@barbariangroup.com(Doug Pfeffer) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:34:34 -0400

Recently we celebrated Mike Ma Appreciation Day. It was pretty great. I took it as an opportunity to try out some new face detection software in an iPad app. The end result is this fine piece of advanced augmented reality technology, named Mike Ma Yourself. We’re now accepting venture capital to turn this into the next big thing.

Screenstagram

dougp@barbariangroup.com(Doug Pfeffer) — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:27:38 -0400

Hey everyone, here’s Screenstagram, our Instagram-driven screen saver for the Mac!

We love photos from our friends, and we love APIs, so we were pretty excited when Instagram released their API back in February. We took this as an opportunity to play with all of these things and package them up in a tidy screen saver package.

(Quick update: check out all the super meta Instagram pictures of Screenstagram showing Instagram photos!)

Fuzzy Mickey

dougp@barbariangroup.com(Doug Pfeffer) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:15:54 -0500

I’ve been checking out Cinder, the “library for professional-quality creative coding in C++” that Barbarian and friends have been working on. It’s a whole new world for me. I’ve never tried graphics programming. I made a body hair simulator, it’s weird. Here’s a fuzzy Mickey. The density and length of the hair is determined by the darkness of the underlying image region. Gross, right?