A year ago, I had the joy of working on Digital Motion, an interactive
art exhibit for Raleigh’s annual art festival, SPARKcon.
The month leading up to SPARKcon 2014 was a mad dash of perfecting the graphics
and physics equations of my DiMo: Particles display. After a
wonderful w…
In the midst of this beastly summer we’ve just entered, nothing seems farther
away than the lung-clenching air of winter. When things are this hot, and
pools and popsicles fail to cool, there’s one foolproof way to get into the
spirit of winter: The Lurking Horror.
… you practic…
Within the last two days, WebAssembly (wasm) has graced the eyeballs of many JavaScript developers. If WebAssembly is new to you, the articles linked at the end of this post fully describe what WebAssembly is. In short, it offers a way to run native code in a Web browser.
I’d li…
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation,
naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Phil Karlton, but I can't find a name for the original source...
Contriving names for things is so commonpla…
Imagine a solitary blue dot.
Unless you let your imagination run away with itself, this is going to be a
pretty boring dot. Now, imagine a second, larger dot (you can pick the color).
Red, nice choice! The scene is now slightly more interesting, since now you’ve
got two dots to…
A player walks up Fayetteville St in Raleigh, North Carolina.
SPARKcon has begun, and dozens of artists are strewn along the
street, hard at work creating elaborate chalk art on the asphalt. A light rain
is falling, and some artists are holding umbrellas over their work, some hav…
I spent a bit of time this weekend building an RGB color cube for
ColorPal, using Three.js. Drag and drop any image, and you’ll see a
cube with all the pixels of your image mapped into 3D space.
Launch live demo! and view the
code.
Your web browser must support WebGL, which at t…
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine ran into some font issues. Firefox
doesn’t allow cross-origin requests for web fonts, and he was using a tool
called Font Squirrel to generate fonts, including data URIs.
Embedding a data URI for a font (or image) inside a CSS file is a common
…
Ever been here?
I want to double the size of this image
open calculator
type in current width * 2
type in current height * 2
paste results back into the Create New Image dialog
I’ve done that countless times. As I was about to do the same thing once more,
I thought “Hmm, wouldn…
