daniel shiffman

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Poker is a little hobby of mine and I’ve been keeping track of hands played (in computerized versions of the game) in a database. Amusingly enough, over the last several years, I’ve collected about 16,000 hands. I’m interested in creating some visualizations with this massive amount of data. . . A [...]

Sometimes, somehow, somewhere, strange things, like a transit strike, will produce funny results. . . you know, like causing one to decide they should teach themselves the basics of iMovie. . . Clearly, I have no idea what I’m doing. . . .
Ode to the ITP Winter Show, 2005:

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Photos from the ITP Winter Show. For more info, visit: http://itp.nyu.edu/show.
Oh, and I fiddled with my camera and shot some quick video. . . perhaps I’ll try to get better footage tomomrrow.

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I can’t help but be proud of my high score in Rob Faludi’s Social Genius game (built with Processing, of course). See, hard work really does pay off. . . . Check it out in the upcoming ITP Show.

A project I’m working on with Aliki: http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/dickinson/. . . If you can break it (or improve my regexes, which were quickly hacked together) let me know. . .

My students in Introduction to Computational Media presented their final projects. Truly, fantastic, inspiring, awesome stuff! I am so obsolete it’s not even funny. . .
Since the project links are hidden behind a password protected wiki, i’ll post them here for all to admire.
Carolina • Rolf [...]

CodeTree by Rich Hauck is up and running in beta. CodeTree is Rich’s thesis project at ITP. . . At Rich’s thesis presentation, there was some discussion about how CodeTree can more effectively create social interactions between programmers (as opposed to simply being a place to “broadcast” one’s work). I’m [...]

How to export a processing application full-screen:

I’ve received several inquiries regarding how to make a Processing exported application run fullscreen. . . Here are a few simple steps and some code (using my Mandelbrot example). . . More information can be found in the Processing FAQ.
Step #1:
In order to auto-launch in “present” mode, you [...]

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(Hmmm, this didn’t turn out at all the way I intended. Alas, I’m posting it anyway.)

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So I discovered via flight 404’s blog that Processing’s version 97 allows for exporting of applications. . . to Mac, Windows, and Linux! Guacamole, that’s pretty amazing. Now my quick little test isn’t nearly as cool as flight 404’s, but download and enjoy:
Windows Download (note you’ll need Java installed)
Mac OSX Download
Linux [...]