- Cosmic Recursive Fractal Flames
Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. It has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a string of numbers – a genetic code of sorts.
- electric sheep
- Image Savant – SPORE
SPORE is an ongoing software/aesthetic development project that has grown out of a proprietary ultra-high speed particle renderer which runs on Irix, Linux, and OSX. All the images on page 1 and 2 are stills from animations, and some of these stills are constructed with over 1 billion particles.
Andy launched upcoming.org finally. It’s good to see that it’s been getting some great writeups, he’s been working on this for a while.
I’ve been helping to beta test for a while (go ahead, add me as a friend). I should start syndicating soon, well, when I get around to relaying out this page [current eta: never]. Hmm, maybe some bookmarklets would be a good idea as well…
Next in my bad sfx series:
Played with Shake last night. Much faster than Combustion, just about everything can be animated.
See also: Original footage (632KiB).
Nodes: ContrastLum -> AdjustHSV -> Stabilize -> Scale -> FilmGrain -> Resize -> FileOut
- 2-pop
- fxguide.com
- HIGHEND2D: Official Shake User’s Community
- Apple Pro stories, Pro Software – lots of useful tidbits, including Quick Tours
Arr! Remember, me mateys, today’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so be sure t’try out one o’ these fine pirate pickup lines. (or letting out some good ‘arrrs’ while you’re downloading that latest song off of Kazaa)
See also: English-to-Pirate Translator
- Ed Tech Dev: Tiki (and other CMS tools) for Teaching
- Edutools: Course Management Systems
- Lots of interesting stuff recently on Many-to-Many, there’s no question that social software is exploding right now. My days and nights are currently being spent stressing over a crappy student film that I don’t even own. Why am I doing this again? (I don’t know)
- Terra Nova – Our world and its synthetic offspring: MMORPGs, toy worlds, social worlds, and other realms of emergent collective reality.
- TheFeature: Social Currency
- Granovetter’s Theory of the Strength of Weak Ties
- The Idiot Savant (Friendster Triumphant)
- 12. My Passage to K5 to Blogs, and Beyond
- sidesh0w.com – great blog noticed from Matt’s link on fixing a IR CSS bug
Most people have been slow to realize just how awesome a sea change has taken place in the domestic political scene….The public still has little sense of how radical our leading politicians really are….Just before putting this book to bed, I discovered a volume that describes the situation almost perfectly….an old book by, of all people, Henry Kissinger….
In the first few pages, Kissinger describes the problems confronting a heretofore stable diplomatic system when it is faced with a “revolutionary power” — a power that does not accept that system’s legitimacy….It seems clear to me that one should regard America’s right-wing movement…as a revolutionary power in Kissinger’s sense….
- System Administration Made Difficult: Self Patching Fireserver
- Matt Raible’s home page – lots of geekitude; also interesting software that it’s running with:
- The Roller Weblogger – J2EE weblogging tool
- JSPWiki
- General Thinking – list of err, thinking people
- Canada’s safe haven for junkies – seeing people shoot up on the street downtown was quite sobering; but it’s better to decriminalize and try to treat it as a medical problem than mass incarceration (1 in 142 residents) right?
I’m now, officially speaking, 23. I’ll skip the navel-gazing bits. A lot’s been on my mind, but despite how it might sometimes seem, this isn’t quite a personal diary.