Mundane Information About Stuff You Really Thought You Knew
Monday, October 13th, 2008
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
The interactivity is still doing babysteps, but TUIO and the Wiimote are supported.
Have a look if Actionscript or processing is feeling too hard for you.
Friday, October 17th, 2008
During my internship at Microsoft I have to work with Microsofts Visual Studio a lot. It is a really nice software for programmers and developers, a bit hard to get for designers. But once you got it, coding makes much more fun in Visual Studio than for example in Flash. Especially cool is a auto completition feature. means you don’t have to type all the command, just the beginning and Visual Studio automatically completes the rest of your command. So you are way faster in coding, you produce less code errors and the best feature is that it proposes all possible commands that you could type. Makes it fun to try out new kinds of commands you didnt know before, and you learn a lot more about your programming language while coding. In a way it is similar to vvvv (and you know that i am in love with that software) because in vvvv you also can see all your commands (nodes) and try them out.
anyway… here is the actual purpose of this post:
FlashDevelop is a actionscript editor. and its doing all the stuff that i described in this post. I think you should really try it. The Flash internal actionscript editor is not a really good one, everybody will tell you that. but until now i havent found any real good one. Flash Develop seems to change that. looking forward to do my first project with this tool.
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Hi!
Here are my slides from the lectures this week:
usability-evaluation-testing-nils-erik-gustafsson
I hope you enjoyed the course as much as I did!
/Nils-Erik
Friday, October 17th, 2008
This is a video i have recorded during last weekend in a pub (excuse me for the quality). this guy is one of the three member band who was DJ ing that night, he is incharge of the visuals which were projected on the wall.Â
He was using a apple wireless keyboard to trigger visuals on the wall. I find it simple and very interesting. I don’t know how many people really experienced the visuals but i think its a good Experience prototype example.
cheers
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
The XY interactive textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by the movement of his/her hand on it’s surface. This textile interface allows users to compose and interpret electronic music by choreographic movements. By its size, its texture, its flexibility and its transparency, this textile interface involves the whole body in the musical interpretation. Like a music score, the sound elements are graphically represented on the fabric, giving to the composer the ability to locate and play (with) them. Thus, for each piece of music, a graphic partition is carried out.
It’s open source as well, so all the code (one processing sketch and lot of Pure Data patches) can be found on the website. Also they provided wtih all assembly instructions and arduino lilypad code, but they all in french.
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Inspiration for Interaction Designers picture gallery.
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
…but amazingly nice looking. If you are in Helsinki sometime, it’s between the train station and the bus station.
It’s done by these guys. With the technology from these guys. (or girls)
