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I’m pleased to announce that we’re releasing the first version of The Most Pixels Ever, an open-source Java framework for spanning Processing sketches across multiple screens (developed with Chris Kairalla). This is an early version that has many limitations and needs a great deal of improvement, but it does work. The site isn’t [...]

A nice article by Peter Hall about the IAC video wall is out in the June issue of Metropolis Magazine. The article mentions our work at ITP on the “most pixels ever” Processing library . . . which we will release soon for beta experimentation!

“Tradition being what it is, even organizations that pine for new ideas struggle with how to change their cultures to support them. The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University provides a longstanding example of why they should keep trying.”
Read the article here. If you are in the NYC area, drop by and [...]

Flight404’s recent exquisite work with additive blending and particles led me to return to an old project of mine. Of course, these days, revisiting a project translates to “add more LCD screens.”
We’ve successfully added support for passing larger amount of data across clients in the multi-screen framework and this has led to [...]

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 [...]

Watch VideoComing soon to a Processing library folder near you, I’m pleased to announce a new project I’m developing at ITP with Chris Kairalla, tentatively titled “Most Pixels Ever.”
“Most Pixels Ever” (not to be confused with “Best Pixels Ever”) is an open source Java framework for spanning real-time graphics applets/applications across multiple screens. [...]