daniel shiffman

An article about ITP was published yesterday in the New York Sun. Now, I’m no fan of this newspaper (see their editorials, which I couldn’t bear to read), but they do have excellent arts coverage, and they did capture ITP quite well. But did I really say this?
“Ultimately, it’s about the human [...]

watch video!Thanks to an idea from students in my icm class (see Catherine’s “greedy game-animated sprite”), I developed a Processing library that grabs values from Apple’s sudden motion sensor. The library is a JNI implementation of Unimotion by Lincoln Ramsay. It hasn’t been tested on an intel mac, so let me know if [...]

I’m working on a new library that makes asynchronous http requests (web pages, xml feeds, etc.) in Processing without blocking possible. It runs its own thread and uses a callback (just like with the serial, video, etc. libraries) This developed out of a need that I noticed in student projects in my [...]

ITP is back in session, and another semester of nature of code has begun. Here’s a new example that demonstrates a method for picking a non-uniform distribution of random numbers.

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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!

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 [...]

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.

At least I did get some work done on the book today.
Wolfram CA, LED-style:
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