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Fluxus Friday: Procedural city
Started working on a new idea today.
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Hitchcock shot
Also known as a Dolly zoom and all sorts of other names, an effect where you simultaneously zoom and move the camera which shrinks or enlarges the background and foreground while leaving the subject more or less the same. A camera trick in fluxus:
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Fluxus Friday
I’m trying to allocate a chunk of time in the week to work on free software, rather than squeezing it into evenings and weekends as I used to have to do. Yesterday I got fluxus working in a hopefully easier way for packaging, and started working on tiled rendering support (so we can make gargantuan…
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Artificial companions in games
Noting an absence in the Lirec research about games (maybe I’ve missed it – there is a lot to read) I’ve started collecting together games which attempt to nurture a bond between the player and another character. My first thought was Ico, but I also remembered the Chau in Sonic Adventure, which migrate from the…
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Java newbie
Java’s quite good (I’ve never looked at it before). All the things I like about C++ with a class system like PLT Scheme. It won’t stop me Scheming, but it might mean I write less C++ in future. I’ve been playing with this game engine quite a bit too. I’ll get back to posting more…
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(open-trapdoor)
Thanks to the ever helpful Matthew Flatt, I can now catch scheme errors before they cause an exception and stop everything running. It’s also possible to detect that an error has occurred and do something else (play a suitable sample, electrify the keyboard…) (define error-happened #f) (define (my-error-handler n) (set! error-happened #t)) (with-handlers ([(lambda (x)…
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Scheme bricks, menus and mice
The first performance attempt of a livecoding system is always stressful, but scheme bricks at make art was especially so for me – using the trackpoint on my thinkpad hurt my finger, there was too much typing and it generally felt really really hard (I ended up switching to betablocker). In order to help combat…
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A history of robotic art
In order to get more context for potential artistic directions for the lirec project, I’ve started compiling a timeline of robots in art – I haven’t even got as far as electricity yet… The Digesting Duck of Vaucanson Voltaire wrote that “without […] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the…
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slub @ noise = noise
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Movement from light
My first solar engine, using a flashing LED as a voltage trigger. Has a sort of fluttery daintiness…