Interactive
I’m very pleased to announce that today Helios Interactive is releasing it’s first Open Source project ! Since I started at Helios Interactive one of my main initiatives from the beginning was to open source as many projects as possible to give back to the community. The Table Top project open sourced was originally an informational touch …
I had been wanting to do some sound driven animations and visualizers for a while but had always managed to put it off for one thing or another. I had looked at some options and ended up using ofxFFT addon by Kyle McDonald. After quickly looking through his example was able to create some of …
FFT Visuals in Open Frameworks
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As part of learning Open Frameworks I’ve been porting over simple examples from other languages such as actionscript or processing. This example is inspired from the post the RGB Sinks and Spring post from flashAndMath.com. The code is actually much simpler in open frameworks because of overloaded operators.
I’ve been tinkering with the Kinect and I wanted to release what applications I had been able to create. I was inspired from other people’s examples and forum posts and wanted to contribute back what I could. All the examples are on my github to ensure that I’ll be able to easily update them in …
Kinect Hacks
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While attending FlITC San Francisco I saw Theo Watson talk about his work with the creative coding libraries known as open frameworks. While I didn’t have very much experience in c++ besides a couple of simple test apps to learn openGL, I thought it would be a good experience to learn a language completely different …
Open Frameworks + Kinect + Sound
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Recently I had been doing a little more work in Away3D and I needed to use an object that was more complex than a preset primitive. After looking through some of the Away3D examples I tried bringing in my own model from Cinema4D. I quickly found that setting up and exporting your file correctly is …
Loading a Collada file in Away3D
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source code is available HERE Recently I decided to tackle a challenge posed by Firstborn in New York on behalf of the Society of Digital Agencies to students at RIT . The challenge: was to animate type completely with Actionscript 3.0. This text had to be loaded and configured using XML, and XML only. Having …
Source Code is available here Recently I had been wanting to do some more interactive 3D type of projects. I wanted to create something beyond just a pre-rendered sequence that simulated camera movement. I have previously been using papervision3D but wanted to expand my knowledge and check out the competition. Papervision X has been long …
WordDNA: Twitter + Flickr + Away3D
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I was reading Lee Brimelow’s Blog ( http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=63 ) and was having some fun playing with effects. While I was trying out a few different solutions to see what the effect would be. The problem was having to continuously recompile my flash movie to see the changed effect. A few numeric steppers later I was …
Some Color Matrix Fun in Actionscript 3
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Experiment in papervision3D to get the text inside a dynamic textField to explode in X,Y,Z space and then reform. Code Available