If you’re in or around Cleveland next weekend stop by Notacon, an annual hacker conference with a creative twist. In their words, it “explores and showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity often overlooked at many hacker cons”. I’ll be giving a talk about my experimental work in Flash with a focus on Alchemy. Notacon is also the venue for Blockparty, a North American demo party organized by Jason Scott and Christian Wirth (RaD-Man). I worked with Jac from Evoflash and musician Coda to build this years invitation for the party. Should be a great time!
Check out the invitation.
Note: All effects are real-time, so this is best viewed using the latest build of Flash Player 10.1.
Today I finally launched ASCIImeo (asciimeo.com), a personal project I’ve been working on irregularly for the past few months. In a nutshell, it renders Vimeo videos in different textmode’s. I hope everyone enjoy’s the site; it’s simple and generally useless, but a ton of fun to explore. I’d love to hear your feedback, rants, and bug reports (I was after all the only person working on this).
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Source code
Getting into the Christmas spirit, I thought I’d play around with raytracing reflective spheres to produce the fractal known as Wada basins. It’s an old technique that can be easily reproduced physically by using four mirrored Christmas ornaments stacked in a pyramid. To be honest, the idea came from seeing the mirrorball Ralph picked up to use as a lightmap for Triangle3D.
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Check out Viewtronics!
The best things in life are often silly, and in this case gloriously retro. Blocktronics, a collective of the best textmode artists around the world, have released their second art pack entitled “Codename Chris Wirth” in homage to the legendary ANSI artist RaD Man. No, it’s not 1995, and yes, this kind of art is still being produced in stunning fashion.
Along with the pack, this marks the debut of a textmode viewer I’ve been working on for some time called Viewtronics. The project is a refinement of my AS3ANSI engine which powers Flashterm, and includes features such as multiple fonts, zooming, and image generation.
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Amid the discussion caused by my memory allocation problem on the Adobe Alchemy forum (which I summarized in a previous post), it was confirmed by Cod3 Monk3y, Inc. that std::string is broken in Alchemy. Specifically, the copy constructor does not seem to be functioning properly resulting in very unusual behaviour and rendering the class unusable. This is very bad news for developers like myself who have plans on porting C++ libraries over to Flash, and certainly throws a wrench in my hopes of seeing an online version of ASCIIpOrtal.
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