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.
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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.
