commentry data visualization

 

Commentry is an interactive 3d visualization of comments on a popular digg story. Digg's rating system combined with word counts allows us to see the status as well as health of a story.

Heated debates can easily be found as well as popular reactions(good or bad) made by a given user. Feel free to alter the information using the the checkboxes on the far right. Created using the digg api, stamen's flash dev kit and papervision. You can view it here.

shifter experiment

Shifter was an experiment that I had made a few years ago, around the time when flash 8 launched but I never got around to finishing it until recently. It's basically a redo of the plotter code converted to AS3. You can view it here. I'm a big fan of clicking the maximize button and setting the mode to auto draw instead of cursor drawn.

PS. I'm not fully happy with the name I gave it so please feel free to comment with a name of your own and I'll change it.

Arc Experiment

My initial experiment for the Adobe Design Center was not the feather piece, but a simple class that drew arcs dynamically in flash. I scrapped the project in favor of learning After Effects Expressions. After a few years in the back burner, I decided to finish what I started and created this experiment called arc.

View the arc experiment or view all the iterations here (One of the last things I added was a color wheel script I found on boostwoorthy's site.).

Standards compliant-ish.

So i've been getting a few emails about the site not working in certain browsers like ie/firefox so I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out the problem. I still don't know what the solution is but i think it's kinda sorta fixed. I've only seen one bug in safari that vertically aligns the site to the top. oh well, at least it's better than before.

Tentacle experimentation

I started using papervision again after i found a posting from pv3d.org detailing how to create lines that don't run into processing issues. thanks to becausejj for helping me out with multiplying transform matrixes.

View it here.

Animated Circles Animation

 

I was messing with this a while back but I never posted it for the world to see because of one little bug. I still haven't fixed it so I'll post it for now, unfinished.

You can view all the iterations here

Eye experimentation

So I created an experiment called eye last year Which i thought was pretty snazzy. The end result was cool but some of the more interesting options came about while I was trying to systematize the code. The giggly motion was created using a nasty workaround in flash using a bitmap to generate the randomness aka Perlin noise .

View it here.

Sample Type Transitions

Using a custom pixel font generate by fontstruct  I was able to generate pretty interesting type transitions without massive processing issues a la Yugo Nakamura

The caveat is that you don't have access to lower case type but that's not a problem due to the readability issue of a pixel font. It is possible to make it work with all standard Latin type but it would need a character look up table.

It would be quite easy to create this effect for any font out there. This font was originally created by meek calling it The First FontStruction.

You can view it here.

zomg! is that a download button!?

After much procrastination, I finally added a download button to most of files. With exception to a couple video pieces almost everthing is downloadble via zip format. Just click on any experiment and a download button will appear below it.

purty feather

I was invited to do an art piece for the adobe design center a while back. Instead of my usual flash/processing expperiments, I tried a different approach and decided to mess with the after effects scipting editor. you can view the results here.