http://www.lightcycle.org/ Copyright 2007 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:04:55 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it." See the video (Quicktime).... http://www.lightcycle.org/2007/04/index.php#000379 http://www.lightcycle.org/2007/04/index.php#000379 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:04:55 -0600 Beth and I just got back from vacation in San Francisco on Sunday. See the photo set on Flickr.... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/11/index.php#000378 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/11/index.php#000378 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:18:09 -0600 A giant Japanese robot escapes the studio to shoplift and beat up children. Awful music, great idea.... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/11/index.php#000377 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/11/index.php#000377 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:56:58 -0600 eskimoblood has released a nice Processing library for 3D surface rendering. The possibilities are illustrated in this Flickr photoset, and in this video in which a surface pulses and deforms in time with music. Paul Bourke's site has a large... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/08/index.php#000375 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/08/index.php#000375 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:14:00 -0600 My friend Colin recently introduced me to the Prelinger Archives, a collection of educational and special interest films produced between 1927 to 1987. The "Most Downloaded Items" box on the right is a good place to start. Sure enough, Duck... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/08/index.php#000373 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/08/index.php#000373 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:17:21 -0600 A lamppost covered in about 150 CD packaging stickers, outside the Best Buy location in Fairview Heights, Illinois. A wide variety of musical genres and time periods were present, and no other post in the lot had a CD... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/04/index.php#000372 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/04/index.php#000372 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:35:24 -0600 Generator.x has a sneak preview of SodaPlay 2.0. PlayForge, the new construction and simulation environment, will include a public API allowing users the add and share new features.... http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/04/index.php#000371 http://www.lightcycle.org/2006/04/index.php#000371 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:33:54 -0600 VisualComplexity.com lists 172 projects in complex data visualization, with images and summaries. Some favorites:Botanical Visualization of Huge HierarchiesFlight DensityWalrus (via Generator.x)... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/10/index.php#000370 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/10/index.php#000370 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:08:18 -0600 Two of the best software synthesizers ever, ReBirth and RubberDuck, are now completely free. I tortured many a roommate with my awful ReBirth tracks in the 90's. I called the effort Brain Fusion, then Kodama, then Kid Icarus (whoops, already... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/09/index.php#000369 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/09/index.php#000369 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:58:16 -0600 I'm back from another summertime lapse in posting. Life has been pretty good, and very busy over the last two months. In July, I began a new job developing software for the government. My coworkers are great, and I'm learning... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/09/index.php#000368 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/09/index.php#000368 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:17:38 -0600 Context Free is program for generating recursive structures, based on Chris Coyne's CFDF grammer. It's easy to use, open source, and outputs very clear images. Within minutes, I was able to produce the image on the right. Recursion is handled... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/06/index.php#000367 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/06/index.php#000367 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:42:36 -0600 O'Reilly: Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data To create a program in Pd, you connect little boxes to one another with the mouse using graphic "patch cords." [...] Once you've created or loaded a patch, you can interact... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000366 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000366 Wed, 11 May 2005 10:56:09 -0600 Processing Blogs syndicates the weblogs of people working with the Processing media programming environment. Tom Cardin did a great job setting this up. Hopefully I'll finish configuring a Processing-only feed soon, so that you don't have to wade through my... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000365 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000365 Wed, 11 May 2005 10:19:41 -0600 I bought an iPod Shuffle this weekend. Before I bought it I couldn't find any reviews that addressed my own questions, so this is my own review. Disclosure: I'm on the PC side, and generally skeptical of the hype surrounding... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000364 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000364 Mon, 02 May 2005 16:03:13 -0600 Near Perfect "Einstein Ring" Discovered Massive celestial bodies bend the light passing around them. If the bodies are arranged just right, they act like a lense though which we can observe extremely distant galaxies. Background, diagrams, photos of Einstein Rings... http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000363 http://www.lightcycle.org/2005/05/index.php#000363 Mon, 02 May 2005 15:50:33 -0600