Kimotion is a new framework for building interactive art exhibits. It will appeal mostly to the Programmer Artist types. Think “Warrior Poet”, but with keyboards.
Within the last two days, WebAssembly (wasm) has graced the eyeballs of every JavaScript developer. If wasm is new to you, the articles linked at the end of this post fully describe what wasm is.
Since that’s been covered, I’d like to talk about one impact wasm will hopefully have on future of computing. To set the scene, a quote from the man himself:
Meanwhile, I took one quick step that would demonstrate the concept of the Web as a universal, all-encompassing space.
Dimo: Particles is an artistic particle physics simulation and interactive art exhibit I created (along with fellow Red Hat engineers Ian Hands and Ben Pritchett) for the SPARKcon festival in 2014.
Launch live demo!
Pictures These pictures are from the art exhibit at geekSPARK in 2014.
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After the event, I wrote this opensource.com article about the experience.
The source code is, of course, open.
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 this point in history means a fairly recent Firefox or Chrome. In case your web browser doesn’t support WebGL, here’s a video to enjoy while you download Firefox Nightly.
Drop64 is an easy drag-and-drop tool for generating Data URIs from any file.
Check it out at drop64.com.
Here’s a demo recording of how easy it is.
Some benefits of Data URIs are:
Fewer HTTP requests means faster page loads avoid cross-origin resource loading issues (fonts in Firefox, for example) you can paste the Data URI directly into your web browser URL bar to view the file (occasionally convenient) If you noticed the similarity to ColorPal, well done!
Hi pals.
This is a speedy post about a speedy update I made today to ColorPal, an HTML5 tool I wrote that automatically generates color palettes from a photograph.
Previously, ColorPal provided hex codes for each color extracted from the image. Eight individual <input>s at the bottom of the page displayed the colors.
I use ColorPal a lot (my own dogfood and all that) when designing websites, and it wasn’t long before I got fed up (hah!
In my last post on the subject, I introduced ColorPal, my HTML5 color palette generation tool. It didn’t perform well with certain types of images, so I fixed it. :)
Color palettes will now match the image even better. Especially for images with infrequent but important colors. Here’s a comparison of the old and new methods, on an image that is mostly black:
You can see that with the old method, the black pixels definitely took over the palette.
ColorPal is an HTML5 color palette generator. Here’s a gif demonstrating how to use ColorPal. The color quality in gifs is pretty terrible, but you can still see the basic usage.
Try it out at colorpal.org.
ColorPal also has a command-line interface, powered by Node.js.
I’ve written some posts about ColorPal.
This is a slightly upgraded version of the physics demo I showed in my last post.
It is still…
“a buggy, rudimentary, just-for-fun javascript physics simulator."
This version has:
pre-defined initial states gravity friction It still has the “clinging” bug. I know how to fix it, but didn’t deem it important enough to spend time on it. :)
The code is well commented, so feel free to hack on it.
This is Bouncey. It’s a simple physics demo I wrote in early/mid 2011, with some contributions and bugfixes from my good friend Greg Gardner.
The description for bouncey’s github repo is:
“a buggy, rudimentary, just-for-fun javascript physics simulator."
It covers Newton’s laws of motion.
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