I’m in Hong Kong teaching a one week workshop modeled off of the nature of code course.
I’m a little jetlagged, but ready to go!
Microwave Festival Workshop
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Autobahn
A new version of the wordpress video comments plug-in is available. Many new-fangled features such as a GUI interface inside the WP administrative screens, hyperlinked timecodes on the main post page, and the ability to put a thumbnail or your own text in the post for launching the player. And what a better way to test it than yet another video of blinking lights. This time real-time sound responsive blinking lights! To the music of Kraftwerk!
Lest you think I’ve really gone insane, I did get through six chapters and an introduction first.
Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn. . .
GA Shakespeare in Finnish
My genetic algorithm example from the nature of code has been translated to Finnish and posted at http://www.nokturno.org/index.php?poeetta=shiffman. What a great site! Lots of interesting text-based digital work there.
Motion Triggered Lighting
Had a chance to experiment a bit more. Created a very basic particle system, where particles are born via motion detection (simple webcam) and displayed as blobular things on the lighting fixture. Graphics, network lighting control, and motion detection all done in Processing. Hooray, the possibilities are endless. . .
(This post uses the wordpress video comments plug-in.)
Ze Fire Instructions
Ok, so this really takes ze cake. At the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, there’s a friendly video available on the room television that provides instructions on what to do in case of a fire. They could at least have gotten a real french person, zut alors! (if you listen closely, you may be able to hear me laughing in the background. oh, and apologies for the high-pitched noise, makes the video a bit uncomfortable to watch.)
LEDs With Cover
(testing the new video comments plug-in)
Last One
At least I did get some work done on the book today.
Wolfram CA, LED-style:
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/blinkies3.mov 320 240]
Experiment #2
“Hello World” real-time, interactive lighting:
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/blinkies2.mov 320 240]
(Just realized I can’t put two video comments posts in the same blog entry.)
LiteBrite 2006
After sniffing the packets to see how this color kinetics LED tile works, I created a Processing library that reads the pixels of the display window, converts them to a 12×12 matrix, and writes them out as UDP packets to the data/power supply for the LEDs. My goal is to create some interesting real-time, interactive lighting applications. Just got this working today and did two quick experiments:
Flocking blobs:
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/blinkies1.mov 320 240]
A big thank you to Shawn Van Every for solving my packet sniffing woes when I was stumped!
The Swirm
Better than anything I could ever hope to program. . .