daniel shiffman

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

Now, I am rather overdue for an update on my upcoming book. I’ll be posting details soon. However, in the course of finishing up a chapter on String parsing, I discovered that my good friend, the Google SOAP API is no longer being supported (obviously, I’m a little late on the ball [...]

TERMINAL ZERO ONE
Digital Art Exhibition at Toronto Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1 – Level 3 Terrace, Departures Level
July 1, 2007 – January 13, 2008
Terminal Zero One (T01) is a site-specific digital art exhibition of five projects exploring themes of contemporary air travel and the architecture of airports. Airports are networks, information is increasingly networked, the T01 [...]

From: http://qrcode.sourceforge.jp/:
“QR Code is a two-dimensional barcode, used widely in Japan. The advantage of QR Code from well-known barcode is larger data capacity (more than 100 bytes, typically) and error correction.”
Thanks to an idea from Tom Igoe, I make a quick and dirty interface for Processing for QRCode decoding. The Pqrcode library page is [...]

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!

I know, I know, you’ve been waiting your whole life for this.
Download beta SFTP Processing library (source included in zip).
Download example Processing sketch.
The library uses JSch (Java Secure Channel).
Copyright (c) 2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Atsuhiko Yamanaka, JCraft, Inc.

import sftp.*;

Sftp sftp;

void setup() {
size(200,200);
background(0);
// Create the SFTP object
// if 3rd arg = [...]

I’m working on an interactive kiosk for the Toronto Airport, part of Terminal Zero One. Two early sketches:

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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 [...]

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 [...]