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| Ben Fry Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Nov 2005 12:23pm An interesting collection of generative images and applets from this MIT Media Lab graduate. Yeah, I'm quite keen on generative art projects, in case you hadn't noticed by now. http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/ |
| Insanely Twisted Computer Arts - Jim - 11 Nov 2005 12:53pm Shadow puppetry - the next generation. Take a look at Michel Gagné's series of Flash interstitials created for Cartoon Network's Halloween lineup. http://www.insanelytwisted.com |
| Soulbath Computer Arts - Jim - 10 Nov 2005 12:48pm Finding the world too colourful and curvy? Head over here for something a lot more angular and greyscale. Resolutely odd and filled with interesting little toys and diversions. http://www.soulbath.com/ |
| Sky Computer Arts - Jim - 09 Nov 2005 11:49am Today's brilliant use for your web browser - take a flight through a sky full of little fluffy clouds. Steer with the mouse and change your speed by holding down the mouse button. Lovely ambient stuff. http://www.ertdfgcvb.ch/p1/sky.html |
| Spidron System Computer Arts - Jim - 09 Nov 2005 10:52am Isn't it amazing what you can do with a two alternating sequences of isosceles triangles if you put your mind to it? Makes me wish I'd paid more attention in maths, really. http://www.szinhaz.hu/edan/SpidroNew/index.html |
| 3D Photo Browser Computer Arts - Jim - 08 Nov 2005 11:33am It's a photo browser like iPhoto or Picasa 2, but get this! You can browse 3D files with it as well, with support for all the file formats you'd expect. And there's a free version of it as well. What will they think of next? http://www.mootools.com/ |
| Mr Funkleberry Computer Arts - Jim - 08 Nov 2005 11:09am A spiffing assortment of limited edition t-shirts from one of our newer forum members - I'll have a Touch Me I'm Famous, please. In pink. http://www.mrfunkleberry.com/ |
| BL:ND Computer Arts - Jim - 08 Nov 2005 11:09am Here's a whizzy little site from West Coast motion graphics studio, BL:ND, with a good old selection of videos to view online. The Robot Independence Day video's a real treat. http://blind.com/base.php |
| WellVetted #39 Computer Arts - Jim - 07 Nov 2005 4:08pm Another month, another collection of essential links that have, quite literally, been well vetted. Any links that subsequently show up here are entirely coincidental. http://wellvetted.com/ |
| The Book of Sand Computer Arts - Jim - 07 Nov 2005 12:18pm A little something to get you scratching your head, muttering distractedly and eventually smashing your computer up in a fit of rage. A hypertext puzzle based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. http://artificeeternity.com/bookofsand/ |
| My Pet Zombies Computer Arts - Jim - 04 Nov 2005 11:56am I hate this time of year, because well-meaning people keep asking me what I want for Christmas and I never really want anything. Well, this year is different - I'll have one of each of these, please. And a shotgun. http://www.mypetzombies.com/ |
| Flight Patterns Computer Arts - Jim - 03 Nov 2005 3:59pm Aaron Koblin took a day’s worth of air traffic data from the Federal Aviation Administration, fed it through Processing, After Effect and Maya, and came up with some wonderful animations in which air traffic is visualised in strange ways. It’s like seeing the USA’s central nervous system in action. http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/ |
| Ephemera Now Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Nov 2005 5:18pm Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. On the other hand, those who remember the past can it use as inspiration for new and exciting retro-flavoured work. Which makes an archive of cheesy old adverts and illustration like this invaluable. http://www.ephemeranow.com/ |
| LameToy Character Generator Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Nov 2005 10:50am TDPstudio is working on an online character generator that mixes and matches body elements to come up with truly weird beings - so far there are 56,700 possible combinations with more to come, and designers from all over the world are contributing to it. Have a play, and find out how to create your own elements for future inclusion. http://www.tdpdesign.com/lametoy.htm |
| Soundtoys Computer Arts - Jim - 31 Oct 2005 2:59pm A pleasant collection of software toys that combine graphics and sound in interesting ways and make for plenty of noisy interactive fun. If you like what you see here, be sure to check out the main Soundtoys site as well. http://www.soundtoys.net/a/indexa.html |
| Happy Halloween Computer Arts - Jim - 31 Oct 2005 11:45am I'll be celebrating tonight by rigging up a high pressure hose as a special treat for any local urchins who dare to come banging on my door. Meanwhile, here's a neat page where you can carve a virtual pumpkin to email to your friends. http://www.theoworlds.com/halloween/ |
| The Endless Forest Computer Arts - Jim - 28 Oct 2005 12:12pm Ooh, it's Friday again. So this week's bit of Friday fun is a deer simulation. You get to be a deer, wander round a virtual forest, hang out with other deer, rub yourself against trees and generally get up to deery things. PC only, though. Link |
| Win Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Computer Arts - Jim - 28 Oct 2005 10:54am Want over £1,000 worth of essential creative software from Adobe, including Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional? Of course you do, so you'd better get over to the Competition section, pronto. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/competitions |
| Fractal Recursions Computer Arts - Jim - 27 Oct 2005 11:48am An enormous gallery of fractal images and animations, featuring traditional Mandelbrot-style swirly images plus some more industrial-looking 'squarries' that we haven't seen before. http://www.fractal-recursions.com/index.html |
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Eovia unveils Carrara 5 New release of the 3D modelling package benefits with additions from stablemate Hexagon |
| What Should I Read Next? Computer Arts - Jim - 26 Oct 2005 11:36am Freaky Twilight Zone moment of the morning: I tried out this social database that suggests books on the basis of what you're reading now, and fed in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintencance, which I read recently. Among its suggestions was The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks. Which I'd read soon after. Jings! http://whatshouldireadnext.com/ |
| Projects Patched Computer Arts - Jim - 26 Oct 2005 10:10am Eagle-eyed readers of Computer Arts Projects may have noticed that one of the features in the latest issue is missing its last two pages. The feature on Magazine Design. Oh, the irony. Obviously everyone connected with it has died of embarrassment; to make up for it, please help yourself to the entire feature in PDF format (~10MB) |
| A Quick Overview of 20th Century Art Computer Arts - Jim - 25 Oct 2005 3:37pm The 100 most important art works of the 20th century, calculated with near-ruthless efficiency and listed in a single, all-encompassing site. A few dead links, but otherwise quite useful. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20c-art.htm |
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Feel the Code Rush Artbeats wants to show you what the Matrix is |
| Octacube Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Oct 2005 2:46pm There's a new sculpture in the Maths department of Penn State University, and it's a six foot square, three dimensional shadow of a four-dimensional octacube. Just thinking about it is a great way of making your brain throb. http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Math10-2005.htm |
| Uncyclopedia Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Oct 2005 12:54pm Wikipedia's ace, but if its occasional monstrous po-facedness gets to you every now and then, here's a thoroughly puerile alternative with its tongue wedged so far into its cheek it's in danger of choking. http://uncyclopedia.org/ |
| Galumpia Adult Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Oct 2005 10:41am It's far too early in the week for anything intellectually stimuating, morally uplifting or that involves long words. So this morning we've been sniggering at these fake porn thumbnails instead. http://www.galumpia.co.uk/adult/adult_2.htm |
| OpenOffice.org 2.0 Computer Arts - Jim - 21 Oct 2005 11:37am The free, open-source and fully-featured alternative to Microsoft Office finally reaches version 2.0. Grab it now, whichever platform you're running. http://www.openoffice.org/ |
| GasGames Computer Arts - Jim - 21 Oct 2005 11:25am Stap me if it isn't Friday again; just the excuse to point you at another site full of bizarre games. And GasGames is definitely bizarre, with a couple of the games requiring you to know about matrices and prime numbers. Nice minimalist palette, though. http://homokaasu.org/gasgames/ |
| Flock Computer Arts - Jim - 21 Oct 2005 11:25am Fancy a bleeding-edge browser? Flock is based on Firefox but with added social tools such as blogging, Flickr and del.icio.us support, an RSS aggregator and plenty of other things we didn't realise we needed a scant year ago. http://www.flock.com/ |
| Apple Aperture Computer Arts - Jim - 20 Oct 2005 11:03am The latest Apple announcement of the season, and it's an all-in-one post-production tool for photographers that, says Apple, makes RAW as easy as JPEG. Fills the enormous gap between iPhoto and Photoshop quite nicely, don't you think? http://www.apple.com/aperture/ |
| Fractal Food Computer Arts - Jim - 19 Oct 2005 3:10pm If Professor Benoît Mandelbrot were to design a vegetable, it would probably end up looking like the Romanesco Cabbage. Discover the infinitely complex world of fractals through the medium of cookery. http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/ |
| Camera Toss Computer Arts - Jim - 18 Oct 2005 12:40pm It's the latest photographic meme to sweep the internets! Get a camera, muck around with the timer and exposure settings as you see fit, then toss it up in the air so that it takes weird, distorted images. And try not to break it. http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/ |
| Magazine 40x40 Computer Arts - Jim - 18 Oct 2005 12:22pm The American Society of Magazine Editors has put together a gallery of the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. No sign of Computer Arts - presumably because only American magazines are included. http://www.magazine.org/editorial/13730.cfm |
| 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Oct 2005 2:32pm Vitaly Friedman, a Belarusian journalist and web developer, pops up with his choice of essential 20 fonts to do with as you wish. Link. |
| Autostitch Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Oct 2005 12:39pm Build your own enormous 2D panoramic photos without any effort whatsoever. Just take a load of snaps from different angles and Autostitch will do the rest. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html |
| Bennett Robot Works Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Oct 2005 12:47pm Gordon Bennett (probably not *the* Gordon Bennett) makes robot sculptures out of old and new found objects. Great to look at and each one's unique, but they're not cheap. Beats the hell out of those RoboSapien things, though. http://www.bennettrobotworks.com |
| Mini-Globz Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Oct 2005 11:08am It's Friday and I'm surfing the fine line between feeling just well enough to stay at work and feeling dreadful enough to go home. This collection of mini-games - visually reminiscent of our chums at Tado - is just about right for my mental level today. http://www.miniglobz.com/games/ |
| The Bearskinrug Sketchbook Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Oct 2005 10:34am Kevin Cornell took a sketchbook he filled between 2002 and 2003, scanned all of it and put it on his web site with a nice flash interface. It's a bit like the British Library's Turning the Pages exhibit. Only, er, not. Link. |
Quicktime 7
QuickTime updates don’t usually get us that excited. But the inclusion of the H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 has us drooling as it’s the one the PSP uses for movies. Stick your showreel on a big memory card and put it on a PSP – that’s progress!
Canon EOS 350D
Canon’s pro-am SLR gets even better, now with an 8 megapixel sensor and new features previously only found on much more expensive models, including three focus modes, monochrome mode and faster memory card writing.
Annoying Apple
Jobs and co have sparked ire for getting heavy-handed with a student who put the latest OSX update online, so much so that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out and offered him $1,000 towards his defence.
Drunkenblog.com
Loonatics
“Hey, let’s take the Looney Toons characters and re-imagine them as angular, edgy superhero types in the year 2772 for today’s teen demographic!” No, really, we’re sure it’ll be at least as wonderful as Scrappy Doo.
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