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Useful frogs.
Thanks to a very helpful Frenchman on the Processing forums, my code now makes sense/runs as I wanted it to.
Zing!
float myValue;
int index; // The global index variable
String[] time;
String[] heart;
String[] speed;
void setup(){
size (1200, 1000);
frameRate(10);
time = loadStrings("time.csv");
heart = loadStrings("heart_rate.csv");
speed = loadStrings("speed.csv");
}
void draw(){
float a = new Float(speed[index]);
line(index * 10, a * 100, a * 50, a * 50);
myValue = 10 * (new Float(time[index]));
ellipse(index * 10, myValue * 20, myValue * 5, myValue * 5);
index++; // Check when reaching 120, stop or restart at 0
}
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Tagged 2010, Code, Digital Narrative, Processing
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Digital economy bill
Motherfucker’s rushed it through.
Digital Narrative – Fight Cub
This is just a proof of concept, with lots of sloppy editing. Essentially, separating Fight Club into two parts, one part, from the narrator’s perspective, and another, from Tyler’s perspective.
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Lovebytes Pt1
A summary of the conference on friday.
Some quick websites and things mentioned before the conference started proper with regards to the theme of the conference, We Love Technology.
- Trexa Kit car
- Eric Dyer
- Beehive, open source forum software
- D Shape – Rapid prototyping of architectural buildings.
The conference started with a talk from Tuomo Tammenpaa, from Finland, who talked about the OHANDA (Open Hardware and Design Alliance).
Things mentioned in Tuomo’s talk were:
- Tiletoy a modular electronic game prototype.
- Playkka – RFID toys
- Mempot
- Nand Synth
- Osasto G
- Open Prosthetics
Related websites: Misusage | Yatta | Ohanda
Next up were Steve Symons and Simon Blackmore, who are two thirds of the Owl Project, who make sculpture, music and sound art. They started off by demonstrating their iLog, which is an electronic device built into a piece of wood. The device can be used to control music, computers (they demonstrated the iLog being used to control emails, although it didn’t seem to work very well). Apparently we’ll all be using it in the future (I doubt it).
They next spoke about a project called Flow, which is essentially a raft floating on a river in Newcastle. The raft will be a floating, interactive sound space, powered entirely by the motion of the water upon which it floats, by means of a rather large water wheel, which along with providing electricity, will provide water and mechanical energy. Flow will be made of wood, and will include interactive components, comprising of a bubble synthesiser, an underwater camera made to look like a rock and a salinity sequencer. The aim of Flow is to bridge the gap between technology and nature.
Related Websites: OwlProject
After that we had a talk from James Boardwell, who focused on social technologies. He wasn’t a great speaker, but some of the things he touched upon were incredibly interesting. Things mentioned were online etiquette (ie everyone calling everyone else a faggot on YouTube). Crucially, he mentioned the difference between online versus offline networks, and the fluidity within groups of peers.
Another thing touched upon was surrendering control, with regards to things like Secret Santas with online networks, where the gift you receive is entirely up to the person who’s sending it and getting lost in the real world, so that you have to approach new people. Offline networks tend to be very stagnant, with new people coming together only at key moments in a persons life (school, jobs, etc). Getting lost and being forced to interact with people is a good (if sometimes scary) way of getting to meet new people, if only very casually.
Queues were mentioned as a way of setting up temporal networks, with people often speaking to one another, but never going any further than that and forming any real form of bond. Something I found amusing that was mentioned was an experiment by halfmachine who put LED signs on the male and female toilets and frequently switched the sign, so that both men and women entered the same toilets (normal occurrence at BangFace) which created awkward social situations resulting in people interacting more with one another.
Related Links: Techno Goggles | Rattle Central
More to come later.
Posted in Out of college, Second Year, Uncategorized
Tagged 2010, events, Lovebytes, sheffield
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One Dot Zero Movie by Niall O’Brien
This is a short movie by Nial O’Brien that was shown at the One Dot Zero festival recently. I’m really liking this, the very simple visuals, juxtaposed with the mumbling of some punk kid that just sounds absolutely wrecked is magnificent.
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Shoddy Design
If you’re going to tout yourself as a web designer, at least make sure the images you use for your tabs line up correctly with the text behind them.
As seen here.
What an idiot.
No internet
Being productive gets hard when you’ve had no internet access since last thurday and your copy of WAMP is fucked beyond redemption.
I’ve got a few things that need to be uploaded to the blog but can’t do anything right now.
Wonder if any of my neighbours are dumb enough to have their wifi password as ‘password’.
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London MCM expo
It’s the London MCM expo this weekend, and I’m tempted to go. Of course, I still feel like something is repeatedly kicking me in the brain, but the paracetamol/ibuprofen/sumatriptan cocktail is mostly dealing with that.
Anyway, yeah. I want to go laugh at sweaty, overweight guys trying to dress up as comic and anime characters, because I know it’d cheer me right up to see losers like that. I’m a terrible person really. I’d be tempted to go for the games there too, but they’ll be console games, and I absolutely fucking suck at playing those. Which idiot thought playing FPS games with a controller would be a good idea?
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