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Drawing Bison

February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing

I read this book a while back. The American Bison as a symbol/metaphor was one of the books main themes. The animal was powerful, abundant, and dumb as a rock. There are some interesting bits about Buffalo Nickels in the book. Buffalo nickels were a part of my childhood. I remember studying the powerful beast [...]

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Flash Heatmap in Google Maps

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Code

Similar to the curve drawing and ranking algorithim addiction. I let heatmapping in Flash takeover my life for a brief bit a couple weeks back. It’s strange how these obsessions come and go. Here is a link to some assembled parts.
There are some really good Flex based examples out there, but I wanted a pure [...]

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Ghastly Vapor Flourish

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process

Again tooling around w/ Trapcode for someone on the print team. Might make it into a comp for Ghost of Versaillles.

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AS3 – Video Player

December 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments · Code

For a recent project I needed a skinnable AS3 Video Player. Everything I found was either over-developed or just didn’t work.
So… I created a super-simple skinnable AS3 FLV player. It’s still got a few kinks, but might be a good starting point for anyone to add-on. Feel free to use as you see fit (pls [...]

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Updated Nest

October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing

I took the nest a bit further. I sketched out some twig shapes, scanned them in, and traced them into vectors. Also added some color variation. I might play with pulling color information from an image w/ getPixel and maybe write it out to a massive PNG and get it printed.

I’ve got some other projects [...]

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Musical Snowflakes

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Code, Digital Process

Dan had me whip up this for a background of a comp he was working on. Trapcode Particular did all the hard work, but it might fit w/ some of the other stuff I’m doing here.

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Simple Nest

August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process, Drawing

I’m learning to draw with code. A lot of what I’ve seen out there in the interwebs is based on mathematical theories named after dudes from the sixties and seventies. I’m inspired by all that, but I’m also interested in recreating systems in nature through generative art. Here is a simple nest I drew with [...]

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Pink Box

August 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process, Drawing

Behold, my very first generative comp. The image of a neon hot pink, scribbled, slightly-rotated square popped into my head one day. Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Justice. Made w/ Actionscript 3 and the Bezier curve fitting function built into Tweener.

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Drowning in Curves

July 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing

In the same masochistic way I let a ping-pong sorting algorithim rule my life, I’ve been obsessing on how to draw elegant fluid curves in AS3 via Flash’s drawing API. This mostly started from being inspired by Erik Natzke’s work.

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Papervision 2.0 Collada Import DAE from Sketchup

April 18th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Code

I’ve been working how to get models from Google Sketchup to Papervision. They currently are working on Collada parsers specific to Sketchup. That should make textures a tad bit easier. Until then;
Here is a link to the source code and a working example.

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