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Design & Programming
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Design & Programming, Processing
How to create realistic smoke effects with astronomical photos
I was lucky enough to attend the Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton this week, and one of the highlights was Robert Hodgin of Flight404.com talking about his stunning work, including his famous Solar and Weird Fishes pieces. His Magnetosphere engine is now the default music visualiser in iTunes 8.
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Design & Programming, Processing
House of Cards
I just noticed that I got linked to from Create Digital Motion, a blog about digital video production and computer animation. Cheers guys! However, the post says that there is “more at [my] personal site” and.. well, there isn’t. Or wasn’t, until now.
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Design & Programming, Mac, Software, Technology
How to get the dimensions of the dock with AppleScript in Mac OS X Leopard
05.26.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis code snippet might be useful for anyone wanting to write a script to resize your application windows automatically to fit on your display.
Note: I’m fairly sure you need to enable UI scripting for this to work.tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
set dock_dimensions to size in list 1
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Design & Programming, Technology
PyTwitFace: Twitter/Facebook mashup with Python
I’ve recently started using Twitter, but its “What are you doing?” functionality does have some overlap with the Facebook “Status“. It’d be nice to join these two things together, so that an update in one place would automatically update the other.
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Design & Programming, Processing
Mobile Cellular Automata
03.21.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsAs a first project with Mobile Processing, I’ve written a really simple implementation of Conway’s Game of Life for Java (J2ME) mobile phones.
This is an extremely scruffy alpha version hacked together in a couple of hours, but it works. The initial configuration is a Gosper Glider Gun. You can pause the simulation using […]
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Processing
Tadpoles
My latest project with Processing has been implementing a flocking algorithm based on Craig Reynolds’ “Boids” using the Traer Physics Library.
“Tadpoles” simulation
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Processing
Simple Turtle for Processing
I’ve been trying to implement some fractals with Processing recently, and I noticed that the Wikipedia page for the Koch Snowflake contained source code for generating the snowflake in the Logo language. This brought back memories of the Turtle robot we used to use in primary school - a large grey dome with wheels […]
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Processing, Science
Processing
I am really getting somewhat addicted to Processing. It’s like a sketchbook for programmers - it provides a framework for very easily drawing stuff on the screen and a nice little environment for writing code. It’s great for scientific and artificial life applications, and also for digital art. The very best examples […]
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Design & Programming
Bombcircle Design
I seem to have new domains and websites coming out of my ears at the moment, but here’s the newest one: Bombcircle Design. It’s my design portfolio and general self-pimping zone. Check out the snazzy CSS rollovers.
So if you know anyone who needs a website, drop me an email.
about
Welcome to the personal website of Jamie Matthews. I am a music obsessive, guitar player, computer programmer, science geek, photographer, Apple fanboy and probably several other things as well.feeds
me, elsewhere
- twitter.com/j4mie
- flickr.com/j4mie
- last.fm/user/j4mie
- myspace.com/j4mie
- bombcircle design
- photoblog
- ruleset