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Big Screens, Fall 2008

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The Big Screens class has kicked off again for this semester. For all of you marking your calendars, the show will be Friday, Dec 12th, sometime in the evening. The students are proposing their project ideas today and tomorrow.

In preparation for the class, I’ve updated the library with new tutorials and downloads.

http://code.google.com/p/mostpixelsever/

Next week we’ll be running our first tests of content on the wall. Stay tuned! (Photos below from our first visit to IAC on Sept 12th. They were nice enough to set up the giant lobby space as a classroom, complete with IAC paper and pencils.)

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N in N

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I recently participated in 7 in 7, a scheme cooked up by the ITP resident researchers to do seven creative projects in seven days. The project inspired the currently running and oh so more manageable 5 in 5. The rules are:

Projects must be completed in a day.
Each project needs a name and documentation posted by the end of the day.

Although I did complete seven projects, it took me nine days, and some of the projects were arguably not creative, but rather a quick experiment or a “i’ve been meaning to do this for the last five years so let me see if I can just get it started in one hour” deal-ee-o. Code-wise I worked on adapting examples into Java from the wonderful book Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran, began the process of thinking about self-publishing a book, and developed a quick bayesian classification Processing library (which I would like to make more fully functional), among other things.

Best of luck to the five in fivers, look forward to seeing the results! And a quick plug to the ITP residents’ show, which will be this Saturday, August 2nd! Details here.

Open Processing

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Open Processing!

Just wanted to give a quick plug to ITP student Sinan Ascioglu’s new site: www.openprocessing.org — a community “flickr-like” site for Processing sketches. It’s terrific work and I’m hoping students in my courses will find it helpful for organizing portfolios of their work. I’m hoping to be able to help Sinan by figuring out a way to auto-generate thumbnails from uploaded Processing sketches. Seems to be the one missing piece (it’s a pain in the neck to generate those screenshots yourself). Any ideas? Post here in the comments.

ITP Shows

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The ITP Show finished up with some nice write-ups on the internets: ny times blog and MAKE.

About a week or so before the ITP show, my Big Screens class had their own show at the IAC Building on their rather large video wall. I’m hoping we set the world record for largest Processing sketch ever. Some photos (video coming soon):

ITP Big Screens @ IAC  ITP Big Screens @ IAC
 

This, as far as I know, was the first public use of the Most Pixels Ever library, which admittedly needs quite a bit of work still.

Most Pixels Ever Alpha Release

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Seriously, Run Lola Run. Run!

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 complete, but the source is available, and there are a couple tutorials to help get your started.

I’ll be using the library in conjunction with teaching a new class at ITP starting today!