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I am an instellation manager. We put the stars in the sky.
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July 13th, 2009
Oh man but flash is the worst! I found out why my bitmaps were subtly shifting around. It is because people can't get just blitting an image right? Apparently?
They fixed this bug in SWF 7, which to me seems like an awful lot of versions to not notice or fix that all of your bitmap blits are off by one pixel in each dimension. I guess Flash was primarily a vector animation format, not a pixel-perfect video game format. Still.
The reason I was getting bit by it despite the fact that SWFC totally supports up to like SWF version 9 is that it for some reason defaults to emitting SWF 6.
They fixed this bug in SWF 7, which to me seems like an awful lot of versions to not notice or fix that all of your bitmap blits are off by one pixel in each dimension. I guess Flash was primarily a vector animation format, not a pixel-perfect video game format. Still.
The reason I was getting bit by it despite the fact that SWFC totally supports up to like SWF version 9 is that it for some reason defaults to emitting SWF 6.
We grilled pizzas last week -- in true yuppie form, toppings included arugula, kalamata olives, carmelized onions, homegrown tomatoes and basil, and browned tofu. Delicious!
July 12th, 2009
Wugsort!
It's a little flash game I made these last couple days. All the source materials can be had at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jcreed/flash/w
Tools used: LMMS and Audacity for music, gimp for graphics, swftools.
It's a little flash game I made these last couple days. All the source materials can be had at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jcreed/flash/w
Tools used: LMMS and Audacity for music, gimp for graphics, swftools.
July 11th, 2009
Saw "Moon" at the Regent Square theater with a bunch of people. The plot was a little holey, but I liked the acting and pacing, and Kevin Spacey as Voice of Ominous Smiley-Face Robot. I recommend avoiding seeing the spoilertrailer if you can. (7/10)
Recent favorites of mine include:
-this fantastic piece of architecture at the National Portrait Gallery
- this haunting song by the Horse Feathers.
-this fantastic piece of architecture at the National Portrait Gallery
- this haunting song by the Horse Feathers.
July 10th, 2009
What do you get if you combine super lo-fi 32kbps mp3 encoding, SWFTOOLS, and crumbly sleep-deprived left-over bits of sanity?
Flash dancing blob!
Perhaps my greatest accomplishment in the field of pointless animated musical proof-of-concept demos since my 6502 threading library MUSTARD.NES.
The concept this is proving is not very special in this case, just that command-line swf tools (called "SWFTOOLS") actually work as advertised. In some cases, even better than advertised since the docs imply that png and mp3 support has not yet been implemented, but the implementation says otherwise.
Flash dancing blob!
Perhaps my greatest accomplishment in the field of pointless animated musical proof-of-concept demos since my 6502 threading library MUSTARD.NES.
The concept this is proving is not very special in this case, just that command-line swf tools (called "SWFTOOLS") actually work as advertised. In some cases, even better than advertised since the docs imply that png and mp3 support has not yet been implemented, but the implementation says otherwise.
If you think my thesis has too many maths and not enough pretty pictures, you should read Raph Levien's PhD thesis. It is about the Spiro font tool/library he made, which I'm kind of suprised I haven't heard about before. This YouTube video explains better than words can. It was about 1:40 in where I started going "ooohhhhh I see why this is useful".
July 9th, 2009
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July 8th, 2009
i just thought of a way for an already-high-profile artist (e.g. webcomic artist) to make money, which could maybe be called "distributed commissions": provide a text box for suggestions of artworks to create. these suggestions are made public, whereupon for each one you can enter a dollar amount, and press a button saying "i promise to pay this amount if this piece is drawn" (in practicality maybe appending something like "in the next 30 days", because otherwise there'd be no reason for the artist to ever close the bidding). artist sorts by highest bid and cashes in after putting finished pieces up for public viewing.
i like this better than regular commissions because then everyone gets to see the finished piece (and surely the artist benefits from showing it off), but no one feels ripped off for having paid disproportionately to their enjoyment. on the downside, it basically eliminates "personal" commissions in favor of (literal) fan service.
has anyone done something like this before? the closest i can think of is randall munroe's suggest-a-date thing.
i like this better than regular commissions because then everyone gets to see the finished piece (and surely the artist benefits from showing it off), but no one feels ripped off for having paid disproportionately to their enjoyment. on the downside, it basically eliminates "personal" commissions in favor of (literal) fan service.
has anyone done something like this before? the closest i can think of is randall munroe's suggest-a-date thing.
