Syntaxis will save our future

Half a year ago I worked on a project for the Technical University in Eindhoven.

Bascially they were building a multistage augmented reality version of the story Alice in Wonderland. You could describe it as a small themepark filled with several installations.

The staff of this project asked me if I could design the sound and light atmosphere setting for this project. Furthermore they wanted that the sound & light experience changed to the location of the visitor. So I created the Atmosfactory. Which was a flexible atmosphere arranger which could be triggered from external triggers (IE user is in installation x) or on time intervals. I designed this flexibility because I would not be able to work on spot after a few months because I had to move to Sweden.

Here is a screenshot on how the interface looked liked. Because I was paid for developing this project I cannot put online the sources of this project.

For the classsite I have been evolving a cube class build from an existing tutorial (which I have to restore the link from) with Papervision Great White 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0. Which I thought it might be useful to share, because changing colors in papervision 3D is actually not that obvious. For the current class site this class has been developed a bit further than this, but before the release of this site I am not allowed put up our top secret code.

You can really easy implement this cube class in your action script just by writing:

var interactivecube:interactiveCube = new interactiveCube(width, height, depth, segmentsT, segmentsS, colorFront, colorBack, colorFrontOver, colorBackOver);

The colors should be set in hexadecimals, as you can see I wrote this class so you can set a front and a back color and the same for the color while hovering.

Here is a zipfile with a demo use (creating 20 cubes with random hover colors) and see the actual working SWF here

Lotech for hifidelity

hit it.

I had a great holiday, literally raved my ass off. Met up with the most of my friends and family, drinking beers. Been almost everywhere around Holland and even Belgium. For a few days I became a hardworking helping and soldering blonde god for the Agua Mineral team, which had an gig on New Year’s Eve. Footage soon!

As you can imagine, it was quite intensive holiday. Therefore I managed to get a cold just before flying back into the Swedish snowstorms which I am supposed to do Today.

So the last weeks there hasn’t be many updates on my blog, actually quite none. People started to question if I was still alive, I noticed the exponentially raising request for an update. There are several other motivations for not updating my blog this much anymore, but I will now to please you all.

First off there is “The Complete Lack of Time” to do this. My pipeline is kind off clogged with projects to be finished. To give you an idea on the workload: the backend of the new ProSafeSecurity website, the backend of the Buisness Management Class website. These sites will be finished before the end of January. And developed for both sites: Asphodel, which is my custom build easy expandable CMS system for future freelance websites to come.

Second in the series “The Complete Lack of Time” there is this portfolio module we are in right now. I have been thinking redoing my portfolio again, but with crazy images to pixel noise ideas. I have been thinking to create an row of images on the website, which explodes into autonomous pixels, which travel around the screen on their own way. When your mousecursor is close to the hotspot where the image was supposed to be, the pixels return to right place in the image. For those who are getting scared of visiting: I will make a plain html version with just blue links and images. Oh well, experiments are going nice. Still im thinking of a way to provide a page with work/lab/blog, therefore i try to keep it low profile on this blog if i am going to move things around.

Then on top all this I hijacked the role of “The Interactive Art Director” for the crewsite, or to be said better, the class website. An prestigious project where like 30 classmates work on and is supposed to be finished somewhere in February. More I am not allowed to say.

And I have been pondering about my future on Hyper Island but I didn’t have “The Great Amount of Time” before the holidays to think it completely through. So before “The Final Conclusion” I intended to keep it a bit quiet. As you can see im going code all the way, therefore I chose my specialisation to be Tech. I had an Design specialisation before on my previous education, but because the world is crowded with designers it’s hard to stick your head out. I intend to nurture my design passions in this specialisation. I’m developing myself more to an area of computer generated motion & design, combined with a development towards a better understanding on interaction design. Therefore my first purchase of 2008 (next to a hangover) is the Processing Handbook because i want to make Processing my own (ActionScript is as well on that list).

In the end I want to make you aware that all my inspirational blogposts have moved here, and I would motivate you to keep track of my del.icio.us

Oh, Reclaim Magenta has become one of the 25 most discussed posts of 2007 on Computerlove.

Have a good 2008. I will.

quickie for the presentation tomorrow.

now off to watch ‘PI’ with fellow classmatians

Emil Rydberg featured a snippet i’ve made in some totally random motion he done for his portfolio.

School: Logo for typresso, a revolutionized way of chatting! (?)

And between tomorrows, new tune! with a nice image:

CLICK HERE FOR MP3

After many requests I revived the /audio folder upon stijlfigurant.nl. This folder has been gone for a couple of months due to clumsy server moving. Luckily after a few days of downtime they managed to put most of my stuff back online, but not my beloved audio folder, which I used for uploading new soundbites, finished tracks, mixes and so-on. Reason: they did not backup folders bigger than 2 gigabytes.

Oh really, that is just what a good service should be about!? Very well then, make up your own rules, but then please presuade consitency.. For instance, my /motion folder was bigger than 2g’s as well, but that one got backed up? Oh hell they have learnt me a good lesson. Don’t go for small(er) and cheap hosting again. I will never use the webhosting: yourname after this again due this brilliant fact.

Anyhow back to the point. Some nice recent stuff to be found here, to bad no time in Karlskrona to finish a single bit, anyway, enjoy:

/Audio

Good, things are rolling again, loads of workshops and some hands on work.

Results for the few:

A few hrs of typography

A few hrs of layouting

Note: All the content as the images aren’t belong to me and far from absolute truth.