I have added
a new blog about my new project called: ‘Practicing with Hiroshi Kawano’. Hiroshi Kawano was one of the most important pioneers in the conquest of computer technology for the arts. Read more here:
I have finished the last week of Andrew Glassner’s 2D Animation and Interaction Course. When I look back to the 8 weeks I must say that this was an excellent course. I can recommend it to anyone who would like to start learning to program. This is a very good opportunity to start.
By the way I used the PFont.list () method to check if the fonts are available and compatible for createFont (). And they are. But maybe there are different rules for loadFont ()?
I have finished week 6 of the 2D Animation and Interaction Course given by Andrew Glassner. This week was about Catmull-Rom and Bézier curves. I have made a short description of the work I did.
Maybe an odd question but I backed Daniel Shiffman’s Kickstarter’s project ‘The Nature of Code’ in 2011. In January 2013 I received a mail from Daniel that his signed copy was shipped to me. I was wondering if anyone (here in Europe) has received a signed copy of his book because I think something went wrong with mine.
I have started a data visualization project which will be updated during 2013. The basic idea is to collect data and to reorganize it into a graphic visualization in which the data makes the image. I used data related to ‘crime’. A rough conclusion is that almost two-third of the committed crimes is never solved. Also important to know is when you would like to avoid crime its best to stay out of our largest cities and out of the way of males. The best way to avoid crime is to stay close to women.
At this moment I am following a massive (2014 students) open online course titled ‘Infographics and Data Visualization’ by Alberto Cairo. I have finished the first week by criticizing and redesigning a Graph. Here you can find the original and redesigned Data Visual.
This project is a follow up of the previous PhotoRaster project. Instead of using lines and points I now have used shapes with fills. For all shapes I also used the background image of the Pijlerdam in Zeeland, The Netherlands.
PhotoTiles 120806_140959, 120806_141152, 120806_141325 and 120806_141457 are a tribute to the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Project. Curiosity (NASA’s Next Mars Rover) landed this morning (August 6, 2012) on the planet Mars. I used the shapes of the ‘crash test’ marker stickers, which are mounted on Curiosity, as tiles.
Again its best to look at the images by clicking the slideshow button in flickr.
For this project I started studying Daniel Shiffman’s code in his book ‘Learning Processing, Chapter 15: Images’. Based on Exercise 15-12 I made a much simpler version of that program. This simpler version gave me also more freedom to control the position of the individual pixels and lines. For all rasters I used only one image of the Pijlerdam in Zeeland, The Netherlands. Using just one image let’s you better compare the effect that each separate raster has on the image. Again its best to look at the images by clicking the slideshow button in flickr.
For this project I went to the local bookstore. Bought five international newspapers: ‘De Volkskrant, De Morgen, Le Monde, The Times and La Gazzetta dello Sport.’
In the CharSymb project I only used punctuation marks (from our Silent-Regular font) to create symbol-like compositions. I also used only one punctuation mark at the time per symbol. The punctuation mark is rotated, enlarged and repeated. The symbol is being build from the center with the character horizontal aligned center, left or right. Vertical I used top, center, baseline and bottom.
In the framework of my ongoing typography project I did some experiments to create patterns with our own typeface ‘Silence-Regular’. I started rather simple with creating patterns of recognizable characters displaying them in rows and columns. After a few experiments I tried to distort this regularity with randomness. This lead sometimes to natural grown rhythm’s and sometimes to some odd handwritten Arabian-like textlines. I have also encountered some three-dimensionality and optical illusions during these experiments.
In the CharVague project I used one character (from our Silent-Regular font) per picture. The character is rotated and repeated several times. The symbol is being build from the center with the character aligned center, left of right. I used an alpha fill to control the opacity of the character.
