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The NETLab Toolkit is a free set of software tools that enable...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:03:12 -0700

The NETLab Toolkit is a free set of software tools that enable designers to easily “sketch in hardware”. With no programming at all and working in the familiar environment of Flash, designers can hook up a physical sensor (e.g. a knob) and immediately get that knob to control a motor or a video projection. The toolkit works with a wide range of sensors, wireless sensors, input from the Wii Remote, controls motors and LEDs, communicates with MIDI devices, controls sound, graphics, and video in Flash, and communicates with DMX computer controlled lighting equipment, all with a simple drag-and-drop interface (of course, programming hooks are provided as well).

Paul Lamere on procedural video remixing with the Echo Nest API

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:55:24 -0700

Paul Lamere on procedural video remixing with the Echo Nest API :

Cool demo of the Echo Nest remix API. (via Waxy.org)

Opera Unite: P2P in the Browser

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:30:49 -0700

Opera Unite: P2P in the Browser:

Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services. You can write applications — in the form ofOpera Unite Services — that use this server to serve content to other Web users.

Why is this exciting? Well, it allows you to interact with contacts, sharing data and services without the need for any third-party Web sites/applications to be involved at all. Think of the possibilities:

You could play games and chat to your peers directly using the service
You could share photos and videos with peers, straight off your hard drive, without needing to use third-party Web applications
You can work collaboratively with others on files such as data and images (think wikis or drawing applications), and then work with those files offline if you wish, before sharing them again at a later date
You could even start creating some crazy hacks, like an application that controls a remote car across the Web (I’ve seen a rough prototype in action)

Itching to know more? Good. In this article I first present a tour of Opera Unite, with details of how to activate it, how to install a Opera Unite service, and how to use those services to collaborate with your friends and colleagues. If you want to find out more about developing your own Opera Unite Services, read our Opera Unite developer’s primer.

Doodle.js attempts to create a fun and easy way to interact with...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:08:33 -0700

Doodle.js attempts to create a fun and easy way to interact with the Canvas that is lightweight, flexible, and functional. While it contains a few shape primitives it is not meant to be a full-fledged drawing api, rather a framework that allows you to build sprites and interact with them in an expressive way.

Watercoolr

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:51:22 -0700

Watercoolr:

pubsub via webhooks, or “twitter” for your applications

Visual Programming Environments For Kids

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:56:29 -0700

Visual Programming Environments For Kids

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating...

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:53:57 -0700

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.

WJ-S: mixing the web

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:15:43 -0700

WJ-S: mixing the web:

WJ-S is a software and a flexible public device for web performances allowing WJ-S (webjays, artists, web addicts and web mutants) to play live with text, sound and visual content available on line. WJs take the control of a multiscreens environment and surf at distance in different browser windows simultaneously. WJ-S is a visible and collective experience of the surf. WJS is an immersive experience in the flux.

Share is an experiment in designing anetworked programming tool...

Tue, 19 May 2009 10:25:03 -0700

Share is an experiment in designing anetworked programming tool for distributed communities of practice.

It is an IDE that automatically shares all the code you write with everyone else that is usingShare, as well as keeping track of how that code is used. Allowing you to see the network that grows around code you contribute, borrow, or just happen to be interested in.

Field is a software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for...

Tue, 12 May 2009 18:06:39 -0700

Field is a software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.

Browser based OSC multi-touch controller.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:15:50 -0700

Browser based OSC multi-touch controller.

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:58:38 -0700

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms

Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using...

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:57:17 -0700

Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots. These primitives are called marks, and each mark encodes data visually through dynamic propertiessuch as color and position. For example, this simple bar chart visually encodes an array of numbers with height:

GameJS - A 2D game programming environment in JavaScript

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:21:05 -0800

GameJS - A 2D game programming environment in JavaScript:

I … came across a book about developing games with Microsoft’s XNA Game Framework using either C# or VB. I quickly learned the C# syntax, which I found out is easy to learn for an (OO) JavaScript developer, and within hours I already had textures flying over my screen controlled by my keyboard and the basics of a simple game.

I then started thinking about how cool it would be to create games just as easily in JavaScript and decided to port the XNA Framework over to JavaScript using Canvas as the rendering device. I quickly had a lot of fun doing so, and learned much about the internals of game development by reverse-engineering the XNA API to JavaScript.

Manipulating video using canvas

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:39:06 -0800

Manipulating video using canvas:

By combining the capabilities of the video element introduced in Firefox 3.1 with a canvas, you can manipulate video data in real time to incorporate a variety of visual effects to the video being displayed. This article, adapted from this blog post by Paul Rouget, demonstrates how to perform chroma-keying (also known as the “green screen effect”) using JavaScript code.

Karplus-Strong Guitar in Flash

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:57:55 -0800

Karplus-Strong Guitar in Flash:

This is a Karplus-Strong algorithm implementation, synthesizing a 6-sided guitar without any sample material in AS3. The result is simply amazing and there is still room for tweaking. The guitar body is just simulated by two mixed in low-pass filter with resonance.

A way to livecode scheme visually, by plugging in and tearing...

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:51:54 -0800

A way to livecode scheme visually, by plugging in and tearing off bits of code.

Video

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:25:16 -0800

"Cocoa is Internet Authoring for Kids. Cocoa allows children (and everyone else too) to create..."

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:11:40 -0700

“Cocoa is Internet Authoring for Kids. Cocoa allows children (and everyone else too) to create interactive web pages, simulations, and video games with animation, sound, and interactive control. Cocoa achieves this using Programming by Demonstration, where instead of writing arcane code, you just put the system into record mode and show it what should happen in a given situation. When that situation is present again, the system replays what you showed it. Cocoa worlds can be delivered as Web pages using a Netscape Plugin or as standalone AutoPlayers.”

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast_Creator

HyperLook was inspired by HyperCard, but it additionally...

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:04:50 -0700

HyperLook was inspired by HyperCard, but it additionally provided a 
client/server programming model, and more powerful graphics and 
scripting based on NeWS's object oriented dialect of PostScript.

The NeWS window system was like AJAX, but with:
1) PostScript code instead of JavaScript code
2) PostScript graphics instead of DHTML graphics, and
3) PostScript data instead of XML data.