Monthly Archives: October 2009

Unity gaming software is now free!

I was blown away to hear today that Unity is now free for small independent developers! This is the same gaming platform that I used for hypocenter, a recent installation piece. The great thing about Unity is that if you … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode Ep. 4

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Simple Examples of Database Manipulation in Processing: Finished Example

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Finished Example Here is the the finished example of the Database Visualization I have been explaining in the previous 2 posts. A couple of things I added were rectangles based on the engine displacement, a for loop to create a … Continue reading

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Simple Examples of Database Manipulation in Processing: Part 2

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Continuing with where we left off in Part 1, let’s start with a bit of data from the cars.tsv file referenced in the Processing File 02 example. BTW, if you are on a Mac, go to your Processing Preferences and … Continue reading

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Simple Examples of Database Manipulation in Processing: Part 1

I have used Processing many times to import and manipulate database files but I tend to either forget exactly how I did something or not be able to find the kind of instructions I am looking for. I greatly appreciate … Continue reading

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dilettantism? Indeed!

I had never thought of Rubens as a designer, but as Mark Lamster writes in his article on DesignObserver.com, he was and a good one at that. I especially like his Hemingwayesque defence of his design decisions.

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Switching Sides

Don’t know why, but this post from Futility Closet caught my eye. A whole nation decides to switch how they drive and in 10 minutes it’s done. No fuss, no muss. Now if we can just do that for everything, … Continue reading

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Data Visualization

This New York Times article has a good overview of the amount of data we are collectively generating. It is literally mountains of information, and the real problem is how do you make sense of the 40 billion photos on … Continue reading

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Digital Body – Kinetic Sculptures

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Joan of Arc: A Constellation of Voices

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