daniel shiffman

Some stills from the multi-screen particles project:

Click to WatchWorking on a demo for the MPE system consisting a grid of cells, each playing the film Run Lola Run at 60×32 pixels. Each cell is one frame behind (or ahead) of its left (or right) neighbor. The idea here is to ultimately have enough pixel space to display the entire [...]

Simple EcoSystem
This week, in The Nature of Code, we’re talking about genetic algorithms. A genetic algorithm is a search technique that involves a simulated population of candidate “solutions” (represented by virtual chromosomes) that evolve towards an optimal state. The process is a computational model of principles from biological evolution, such as [...]

I’ve posted a brief tutorial on using JWNL, a Java library for accessing WordNet.
“WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and [...]

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March 4th 2007. New York City3 Minutes
Wherein we pick a name we like (Tech Trek: Inside ITP) and catch ITP researcher and teacher Dan Shiffman working on 6, 32-inch TVs. His project is was just up and running when we talked to him. It’s an open source Java framework for spanning real-time graphics [...]

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Today, my site had a slight breakdown. For whatever reason, the Google Analytics plug-in made the site disappear. If you weren’t logged in as an “author”, nothing would appear. So before I could figure out the problem, I enabled author capabilities for all my students so that they could continue to view [...]

That’s right … today’s date 2/2/07 is a gentle reminder to recall that beloved sitcom from the 80’s. Take a moment from your precious regular expressions and take a moment to watch this clip and don’t be shy, sing along!

I was just settling into a quiet evening of reviewing material for my A to Z class tomorrow when I stumbled across something quite shocking.
Mind you, I was in a fragile state, having finally released myself from a rather unhealthy personal obsession with the StringTokenizer, silently weeping (inside) while adjusting the examples to [...]

I’m just finishing up another trip to Savannah, GA. It’s Art & Technology Week here at the Telfair Museum. I participated in two programs, a workshop at the Moses Jackson Community Center and a demo for high school students at the Jepson Center. Haeyoung Kim (who performs under the name bubblyfish) also spoke. [...]