daniel shiffman

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I’m working on a command line emulator for Processing. . . This is somewhat of a useless experiment, and there’s a lot to be done to make it into a fully functional library. . . but at some point, i’ll finish it. . .

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Finally had some time to rework the Nature of Code syllabus for Spring 2006. It’s up now here. Fixed the order of a few things that didn’t make sense last time I taught the course. . .

Went to see Mark Napier’s show, Empire, at bitforms gallery yesterday. Mark is teaching a new class at ITP next semester using LWJGL (“lightweight java game library”) as means for exploring OpenGL as an artistic medium. Should be a great extension of the programming courses taught with processing at ITP. . .
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So, I’m working on a project at ITP that involves viewer comments on video that are tied to specific points of time in the video. It needs a new title, something less, i dunno, boring. . .
I hope to post some videos and use this system at this site [...]

Here is a video taken at Siggraph of some of my work presented there in 2004. . . . it’s old, sigh, someday i’ll have some time to show something new. . .

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I’ve been getting some e-mails asking about the ol’ ShakespeareMonkey@Home project inquiring about sample source code, etc. My Nature of Code course covers a brief introduction to genetic algorithms and includes a sample applet that evolves the phrase “To be or not to be.”

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I’m teaching a new class this Spring at ITP and am starting to put info online about it:
Programming from A to Z.
Some really inspiring projects related to the class:
Nora Project
Gnoetry
More to come!

So, I’m testing my ability to video blog with my cat as a test subject. . . If you’re new to videoblogging, check out this terrific site: freevlog.

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Ok, so I’ve discovered the magic of wordpress and redone my site. . . who knows if it’s any better than before. But here it is. . . enjoy!
Dan