daniel shiffman

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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 [...]

Video of Motion Triggered LightingHad a chance to experiment a bit more. Created a very basic particle system, where particles are born via motion detection (simple webcam) and displayed as blobular things on the lighting fixture. Graphics, network lighting control, and motion detection all done in Processing. Hooray, the possibilities are endless. [...]

Ze Paris HotelOk, so this really takes ze cake. At the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, there’s a friendly video available on the room television that provides instructions on what to do in case of a fire. They could at least have gotten a real french person, zut alors! (if you [...]

LED grid with cover(testing the new video comments plug-in)

At least I did get some work done on the book today.
Wolfram CA, LED-style:
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Ok, it’s time to test the Video Comments Plugin. I’m working on an interactive fishtank project for the amazing and awesome Local Projects so I thought I’d use a demo video I just whipped up (where glowy tadpole-like creatures interact with a shadow). Perhaps not the best video for an in-time comments engine, [...]