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Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 8 – Facadeprinter

Jon Miller — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:01:34 +0000

link: http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/facadeprinter This is another innovative combination that involves two preexisting pieces of technology: printing software and a paintball gun. They use it to print images onto a canvas, which could be anything, including the sides of buildings and structures. It looks like they are also attempting to package it as a quick way of [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 7 – Color Survey, Xkcd guy

Jon Miller — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:41:59 +0000

Link The data set given was to ask people to name colors. The xkcd guy then analyzes and the results in an interesting and humorous way. A lot of thought and analysis, however tongue in cheek, has gone into this, much more than pictured above. I recommend checking out the link. He analyzes the most [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 6 – Duct Tape Platformer

Jon Miller — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:27:15 +0000

Link: http://www.artificial.dk/articles/edgebomber.htm This piece allows people to place duct tape on the wall, which is then scanned and turned into a playable platform game that is projected onto the screen. It’s one of those ideas that, once thought of, is relatively easy to implement, if only one had the idea first. This piece is relatively [...]

Jon Miller – Final Project

Jon Miller — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:57:15 +0000

Summary This is a game about protecting your “Little”, a small car that follows you around, while running into your opponent’s “Little”. At your disposable is the ability to change the terrain at will. You can form hills and valleys in real time at your discretion, to aid you and thwart your opponent. To download [...]

Jon Miller – Project 3

Jon Miller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:07 +0000

A zip file containing the source code/executable: link If you wish to get it working in a playable fashion, please contact me. Thanks. Concept I chose the input device fairly early on – I figured, given my limited options (microphone, webcam, mouse, keyboard), that webcam would be the most interesting for me, and new territory. [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 5 – The Scale of the Universe

Jon Miller — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:48:23 +0000

View it here: link I think this is a particularly well done project. This idea has been done before, but the zoom ability makes it more accessible and easier to compare the relative sizes of things. I like his selection of objects, as well as his occasional commentary about some of the chosen items. It [...]

Jon Miller – Project 2

Jon Miller — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:32:43 +0000

Update (2/17/10) I have updated the project. The footprints are now smaller, and after several optimizations, the flash does not slow down. Thanks for the tips everyone! Note: The flash is above: it begins as complete whitespace. Controls left arrow/esc: reset up arrow: spawn footprints quickly down [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 4 – Sumotori Dreams

Jon Miller — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:36:59 +0000

I highly recommending trying the program for yourself: link Note: some antivirus software complains about this. It is not a virus. In 87kb, Peter Sotesz creates self balancing automatons whose sole purpose is to knock each other over. The game is complete with breakable walls and secret mode. I chose this as for my Looking [...]

Jon Miller – Project 1

Jon Miller — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:26:47 +0000

Update: I have attached a zip file here: (link) containing an html file that opens the flash object without resizing it. Download both, then open the html file. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback! Concept I wanted to explore something that might be completely new to people, [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 3 – How to sew an electronic circuit

Jon Miller — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:30:22 +0000

This is not so much a looking into a finished project as it is looking at possibly a different medium. In posting this, my hope is that someone may find it interesting enough to incorporate into a future project. I feel there has been a trend towards making things more “organic” – somehow capturing lifelike [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 2 – Small World

Jon Miller — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:03:47 +0000

In tune with some of what has been shown in class, this is another project with a simple premise with meaningful implications. Presented in heat map form, it attempts to show the degree of “remoteness” in every location. It does this by calculating the distance it would take to travel (using conventional methods) from any [...]

Jon Miller – Looking Outwards 1 – mobile phone usage collage

Jon Miller — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:17:52 +0000

This application, which runs on mobile phones, visualizes a person’s mobile communication usage patterns. Each connection is converted into a graphic based on its duration and type, and the results are all displayed together in a colorful, unique image. I chose this example because I think it is a good instance of data being displayed [...]

Jon Miller – Project 0

Jon Miller — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:39:25 +0000

Part A Notes: Created in Flash AS3. PDF created with AlivePDF libraries. //static parameters var startPointY:Number = 39; //starting position of each wave var amplitude:Number = 30; graphics.lineStyle(1.49, 0, 1); //drawing the sine waves for(var i:int=0; i<90; i++) { graphics.moveTo(0, startPointY); angle = -0.1; xpos = 0; period = 9; for(var j:int=0; [...]