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Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman and Vimeo.

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

IAC Video Wall Test from shiffman and Vimeo.
We’re testing the most pixels ever library on the IAC Video Wall. So far it works.
More to come in the next two days. . .

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 [...]

We have lift-off for airport-related puns!
Terminally bored? You won’t be, with digital art by Nadja Sayej, The Globe and Mail.
Airport art: Multi-screen, interactive digital art exhibition connects travellers with a disconnected world at Terminal One by Peter Goddard, Toronto Star
Terminal Zero One Touches Down at Pearson by Adam Schwabe, blogTO

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I’ve been revisiting Voronoi Diagrams after seeing flight 404’s post and continuing amazing work. Started out by duplicating Golan Levin’s portraits (see image below) with the idea of developing some sort of voronoi-esque video filter (see sample above). I’m planning on trying a few things to make the Voronoi cells [...]

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 = [...]