I've been admiring StackOverflow's default quilt-like profile pictures (which I notice are also on the Fail Blog) and am curious what program both are using to generate them. But what I really want to know is: If you were to design the system to create default profile pictures, how would you do it? I'm looking for ideas on what algorit...
Today the blinkenlights stereoscope project starts as part of the nuit blanche art event in Toronto. The Toronto city hall is transferred into a giant matrix display. There are tools to create custom animations and an iphone application to view the live stream. I think this is a great example of using technology for art and beauty. W...
List out the articles/writings that inspired you to be a better developer They write the right stuff http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html Made me think harder about edge case conditions Programmings dirtiest little secret http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html Made me learn ...
I am trying to cobble together a scene that basically consists of: A 2D image of the earth (think NASA satellite photography) that has been rotated into a view similar to this and, Cylindrical tubes that I want place at specific lat/lon coordinates. I have managed to setup the 2d image as depicted in the link above, but I am struggli...
This perhaps isn't really a programming question, but it's something I'm sure lots of programmers other than me have faced! I've almost finished an iphone application I've been working on, the only thing I'm missing is a spot of art - a title screen, small and large icons, that kind of thing. I have no artistic talent, but I've been fin...
Hi, I need to tag MP3 files with a Cover Art in C#... Is there any easy way to do this? I found UltraID3Lib as an exampel and it is great for regular ID3 tagging but I cant handle the cover art. If someone know an easy way to do this would it be great :) ...
Generative art means pieces of art which are generated by computers. To get an idea, here is a YouTube video. Now, I'm not looking for nice pictures or cool blog posts but for actual code samples which I can run and experiment with. ...
Hello, can one consider Computational Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence as mainstream? or are they just "art"? Thanks ...
I've been working on a casino game as a way to learn XNA and I'd like to publish it to an open source host. The back end is coming along rather nicely, but I'm absolutely NOT artistically inclined, whatsoever --I know of no developers that are. I'm obviously not looking to make money off of this project, so offering to pay somebody for t...
I have to validate a couple of fields in the CA grid every time a record is updated/added. The grid is used in the callback mode. What i cannot figure out how to do is cancel the callback if a cell is invalid. I am trying to do this 'onBeforeUpdate' event of the grid. I can call set_cancel(true) to cancel the update. But this will change...
I really like the work that's done with processing (http://processing.org) but I'm more exposed to the .Net world and would like to stay there. Is there a library or sub-language within .Net that is very focused on being easy to use for artists? Processing and OpenFrameworks excel because it's so easy to create animations and other visu...
I don't quite follow scientific papers, so I wanted to take a look at different ART/ARTMAP implementations. I found one in C++. Any others you know? With no background in AI, what are some basics one must cover to be able to fully grasp this theory? Reference: Adaptive resonance theory. ...
I am attempting my first commercial game. I am using some paid-for content and some free and have found some content under GPL license that would be very suitable to use in my game. Although my game uses NO GPL code and I do not want to open source the game, I would like to use some 3D models that have GPL license. The models will be pla...
I am designing an interactive installation for a gallery where I will receive input telling me which of 8 input transducers have been bridged. For example if someone touches strip number 1, I will be able to detect that. For convenience let's notate that as {1}. If they touch 1 and 2 simultaniously, I will be able to detect that connecti...
In a recent question I was introduced to the work of André Michelle, which blew me away. What other great people or works do you know in the fields of art and music? As someone with a love for math/programming and art/music I'd love to know more about people using sophisticated (or not so sophisticated) techniques to produce creative thi...
For an art project, one of the things I'll be doing is zooming in on an image to a particular pixel. I've been rubbing my chin and would love some advice on how to proceed. Here are the input parameters: Screen: sw - screen width sh - screen height Image: iw - image width ih - image height Pixel: px - x position of pixel in image py ...
Hello, It would be extreme pleasure , if you could please help me sort out the problem that I have been facing. Im using Component Art Grid control along with asp drop down list and both of these controls are in the UPDATE PANEL which allow me to update the Grid based on item selection from the drop down with having to postback the whole...
We are looking for a way to decorate one or two of our white walls of our new office. For the top floor where PHP developers are working we thought a piece of good looking and interesting PHP code would be fun. Anyone willing to help us out? The available walls: Wall nr 1: http://flic.kr/p/8sKDja Wall nr 2: http://flic.kr/p/8sNGFq ...
And by that I mean any piece of code, or an idea presented in pseudo code, something which is very important and is almost art now. I intend to put up a few paintings and work on paper around my office which depict engineering, rather celebrate engineering. I want them to be not so ordinary like e=mc2 or anything too common or geeky, lik...
I have a problem, some friends and I are looking for some place we can upload our school design project like this: http://www.freewebs.com/gfxvoidworm/worm.html . Each of those images are uploaded next to eachoter and not as a long single image. How can we upload our different images next to eachother like that without having to merge th...