Archive for March, 2008
March 31, 2008 at 9:08 pm· Filed under Play, Personal
Well, it was about 13.5 months ago that Samantha said ‘Yes’, which means that the nuptials are well and truly upon us.
In about 8 hours we’ll be leaving for South Africa in plenty of time to prepare for our wedding on April 12th. I really can’t wait! First off, leading up to the wedding, we have planned a week of touristy things to enjoy with my family. Thereafter, both immediate families are spending a few nights at a fancy game park. Finally, and of greatest importance, we venture off to the almighty honeymoon at Victoria Falls.
So - I’ll be back at the end of April and I’d really appreciate it if you guys helped out and wrote a few blog posts. If you’ve got a blog already, it may be a good way of getting a little extra attention. If you don’t have a blog and just have a cool experiment that you want to show off, here’s your chance.
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March 30, 2008 at 12:18 am· Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio, Novel Ideas
Well, it’s not quite Monet or Renoir, but I bet van Gogh would’ve given his left ear for a piece of this action…
Ok, so maybe I’m being a little flexible with the ‘Impressionist’ title but I think what we’ve got here is a valid way of artistically presenting images in Flash. Warm up the Louvre… I need somewhere to hang this stuff!
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March 24, 2008 at 10:21 pm· Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio, Novel Ideas
Here’s a quick demo of an image filter that I thought up during one of my last projects though it never managed to find itself in the launch.
Click through to see it in action.
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March 22, 2008 at 11:29 am· Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio
There comes a time in every programmer’s career when they are drawn to the Mandelbrot flame. Like the rest of us, I’ve known about it since I was a kid, but never have I really worried about checking it out. I guess I felt that the concept was familiar enough already - what could I gain from touching the code?
It’s hard to explain just how awestruck I am at how wonderful and beautiful the pattern is. In many of my experiments I’m trying to formulate complex patterns from simple rulesets, in hope of tripping over that line where the emergent behavior becomes art. Having played with the code a little, I’ve now realised that the Mandelbrot set is my Mona Lisa.
Check it out for yourself.
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March 19, 2008 at 11:03 pm· Filed under Misc, Play
Look out Seek… move over Monster… footloosemoose jobs is mowing your lawn. You may just find your next employment adventure right here.
Every week I get sent a few emails asking me if I’m available for freelance work and if not, if I know of anyone who may be. So I’ve decided to dedicate one page on this site to perhaps help you to make cash from Flash.
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March 15, 2008 at 6:47 am· Filed under Flash, Work, Portfolio
Let me take a moment of your time and tell you about the site we recently developed for the new Honda Accord.
What started as a prototype that saw 3D dots swarm from location to location, has evolved into an interesting microsite that shows off the Accord’s most revolutionary features.
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March 11, 2008 at 1:23 pm· Filed under Play, Novel Ideas, code stimulus
Proving that his finger is well and truly on the pulse, Michael Rees (my supervisor from my beloved university days) has found a interactive gem (I endorse everything of his except the title on the linked blog post!).
Lucid Touch, the brainchild of Patrick Baudisch (Microsoft Research), seeks to solve the occlusive problem found in multi-touch interfaces… that being your fingers getting in the way of the content. Using a concept he calls ‘psuedo-transparency’, the user navigates the interface my touching the back of a mobile device - something that looks quite intuitive and, for some reason, it strikes me as a more personal experience than the common alternative.
Check out the following video for something new.
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