sness

Saturday, August 29, 2009

space

howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com

Right now, it's 13.

viz

Managing UI Complexity - Great article by Bandon Walkin

Human Interface Design from Apple

Rise of the Data Scientist from the awesome FlowingData blog.

Ben Fry author of Visualizing Data
Ben Fry PhD - Computational Information Design
Choose Your Own Adventure ? Most Likely You?ll Die
Collect Data About Yourself with Twitter ? your.flowingdata is Live

Friday, August 28, 2009

Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up

live coding

live coding - A new thing in London where music coders write code that makes music and sounds live (like in Chuck or Max/MSP). Neato!

Dave sums it up: "It's such a new thing, and we don't know if we're any good at it - it may well be that a new generation comes along and just blows us away".

I googled "live coding", and what came up was On-the-fly Programming :
Using Code as an Expressive Musical Instrument (or live coding) by Ge Wang and Perry Cook. That is so cool.

I met Ge Wang last week at ICMC 2009. He gave two really awesome talks, one about smule and one about slork.

Yes, this is my life, and it rocks. :)

neptune

Web-linked observatory will make deep sea visible to all - NEPTUNE project in the Globe and Mail.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

inside

Rect::DoesIntersect

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

persona

Personas, an MIT-based project that began as an art installation. Beautiful design, but really lacking the data and algorithms, a search on my name (both Steven Ness and sness) didn't produce anything interesting.

What we need is beautiful design coupled with hardcore algorithms and data.

This is my mission.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

vs

be flat

in b-flat.net. neat.

pretty flash

Rotating 3D Flash Portfolio App.

Monday, August 24, 2009

eamcs23

Emacs as a Daemon
keeping related buffers together with elscreen
emacs --daemon
Questions tagged emacs23 on Stack Overflow
Aha! Emacs 23!
emacs 23 has been released!
New Features in Emacs23

gfs

GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward

tides

Tides for Alert Bay, British Columbia

img

Writing an Image, Multiple Times with convert in ImageMagick. Super useful, and turned a process that would have taken years into one that will just take a month or so (!) on a four core Mac Pro.

Before, each conversion of a .wav file from The Orchive to all the .jpg images required would have to run each one as a seperate "convert" job, which was taking about an hour per .wav file! Now, it runs in about a minute.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Geek Fashion with Diana Eng

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Drumming Along with Battles - ENGR 466 at UVic

I'm helping with this project, I wrote the code that listens to the music file and sends out MIDI notes to the robot drummer. Funky stuff!

Friday, August 14, 2009

pvk

Recordings by Peter van Kranenburg, a visiting scholar in our lab.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

hardcore magick

I'm slicing up some massive png files with Imagemagick's convert program for the Orchive, and have to generate more than 100 slices of a huge 300MB image. It was taking quite a while to do each one individually, so I found this great resource on writing multiple images with one convert command:


convert cyclops.gif  -fill lightsteelblue  -draw 'color 0,0 floodfill' \
          \( +clone -resize x128  -write  cyclops_lrg.jpg +delete \) \
          \( +clone -resize x96   -write  cyclops_big.jpg +delete \) \
          \( +clone -resize x64   -write  cyclops_med.jpg +delete \) \
                    -resize x32           cyclops_sml.jpg