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Oh, if I only had the room, I’d be making myself one of these to experiment with VJ control systems.
MaximumPC wrote a detailed project article here.
… and to get that real world look and feel for controls, the smart people at the RWTH Aachen University Media Computing Group, came …

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2 April 2009 OSX, Programming, Visualization

Found an interesting open source emulation project called Open Emu for the Macintosh.  modular in design, it currently has support for NES/Famicon, Gameboy/Gameboy Colour, Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG – 1000 and Gameboy Advance.  You of course have to track down the romsets yourself.  Even more interesting, there is …

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24 March 2009 Games, Programming, Technology

Back in 2007, Sony halved the price of a development kit to around $10,000 in hopes of garnering smaller developer houses to get on board.  These are troubled times and they once again dropped the price, this time, to a mere $2000!  Will more people jump on board the platform …

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Recently, i’ve been seeing a lot of really cool visual techniques.  One artist who really excites consistantly is Desaxismundi, and his work with feedback shown here.  Optical Feedback, otherwise known as Video Feedback can be used to create very fractally intense imagery.

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I’ve dabbled in CG (Computer Graphics) since the very early days on the Commodore Amiga computer with truly painfully slow packages like Sculpt Animate, Caligari, and later Lightwave 3D.  On the PC, I’ve messed with 3dsmax, SoftImage, Maya and others.  Most are very expensive to get into and not really …

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If you have been downtown Toronto in the past few nights you may have noticed the Toronto City Hall lit up like a Christmas tree with all of its windows flashing in animated wonderment… Here’s the lovely people who did it!

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24 September 2008 Programming, Technology

“A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the “World Day Against Software Patents”. Five years ago, on 24 September 2003, the European Parliament adopted amendments to limit the scope of patent law and thereby protect small software …

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I am always delighted to see new Processing creations and Glenn Marshall‘s latest work is fluid… stark, yet beautiful.
Click here to see the HD version (requires Adobe Flash)

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23 July 2008 Games, Programming

ATI, Nvidia and Apple have all been working on programming concepts to use your high end graphics cards for more than just graphics.  Since graphics chips have surpassed the computers microprocessor (CPU) in many ways, why not use the power it provides?  Microsoft is now getting with the game and …

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22 July 2008 Games, Programming

André LaMothe is a well-known author and scientist to some.  He has a huge number of published books on the secrets of games development.  I recently found this really cool site which has loads of kits and books for that very topic.  Here, you will find out how to design …

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