JoshIsElectric » programming http://joshiselectric.com Games, Sounds, Media(s) Tue, 11 May 2010 20:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Ben Fry Talk at Auraria Campus http://joshiselectric.com/programming/ben-fry-talk-at-auraria-campus http://joshiselectric.com/programming/ben-fry-talk-at-auraria-campus#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:42:47 +0000 jafish http://joshiselectric.com/?p=60 I got a notice today from Prof. Chris Coleman that Ben Fry, one of the creators of Processing, was giving a talk the Auraria Campus this evening. It’s the last week of classes and things are crazy, but I’m so excited by Processing and the environment around it that it was just the right thing to do. Having seen several of the projects he discussed before, it was still great to see him speak in person and give a short background on how he ended up working on Processing in the first place. He also showed some of the human genome visualization projects he developed as part of his PhD research at MIT (these projects were featured in Ang Lee’s Hulk – Photo).

He highlighted the concept of sketching and showed a beautiful visualization (by Robert Hodgin aka flight404) as well as an initial concept sketch, which was a very simple experiment. Because I’ve been feeling very stuck creatively as of late, this was an inspiring reminder to just make stuff and iterate. Processing is made for sketching, and for being one part of your current workflow, another point that Fry brought up. He doesn’t want Processing to be the both the beginning and endpoint of your work.

A couple ideas he highlighted were important enough for me to write down (and circle a couple times):

  • Consider the shape of data
  • Make visual transitions meaningful (not just the data at transition endpoints)

He’s teaching some workshops at Metro tomorrow and taught today and yesterday. I’m bummed that I couldn’t be a part of those through some kind of collaborative visiting artist arrangement between DU and Metro. Maybe next time.

]]> http://joshiselectric.com/programming/ben-fry-talk-at-auraria-campus/feed 1 Homebrew DS Software Controls Robot http://joshiselectric.com/programming/homebrew-ds-software-controls-robot http://joshiselectric.com/programming/homebrew-ds-software-controls-robot#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:02:40 +0000 jafish http://joshiselectric.com/?p=39 Here’s a neat video of a French team who control a little robot through some custom Nintendo DS software. I wish I knew French because I’m starting to become more and more interested in custom modifications for hardware devices that are supposed to be “closed.”

Here’s another cool hardware project in which the artist creates a scrolling TV in front of the full stage background of the first level in Super Mario Bros.

 

]]> http://joshiselectric.com/programming/homebrew-ds-software-controls-robot/feed 1 Built with Processing http://joshiselectric.com/programming/built-with-processing http://joshiselectric.com/programming/built-with-processing#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:38:24 +0000 jafish http://joshiselectric.com/?p=13

An interesting interview with Matt Wade and Karsten Schmidt of Moving Brands about their use of Processing, featuring footage of some really cool installation projects that use Processing.

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