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links for 2009-06-30

  • Pariah Burke is a Designer, author, consultant, entrepreneur, guru: InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, WordPress, and social media for creatives. He writes for Creative Pro, inclusing free for all articles (roundup articles of free resources for creatives)

    Designer, author, consultant, entrepreneur, guru: InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, WordPress, and social media for creatives.

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  • Hypotrochoid is the mathematical term for a line traced by a fixed point in a circle (your pen) rolling around a bigger circle.

    These beautiful flowing curves have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Different points within the circle produce wildly differing patterns. This a classic and absorbing drawing set, easy and fun to use that will throw you back to your childhood!

    This 11 piece set comes in a tin case and includes (1) Green (1) Red and (1) Blue Pen and also comes with instructions.

    Measures: 8.25L x 1"W x 3.25"H $7.99

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links for 2009-06-12

  • This tutorial covers basic trig theory, as discussed in Appendix B of Processing:Creative Coding and Computational Art, Ira Greenberg, Friends of ED, 2007
    Some thhhheor-ie

    Trigonometry (really just a couple of the trig functions) is central to graphics programming. That being said if you’re anything like me you probably have a hazy memory of trig. Perhaps you remember the mnemonic device soh-cah-toa, used to remember the relationships between the trig functions and a right triangle. Here's a diagram to awaken your memory.

  • he pristine white room with Amie Potsic’s large scale silver gelatin prints mounted on aluminum and floating boxes is experience design created by an artist who has encouraged the best to do better. The ultra-fine black and white photographs depict human skin scars juxtaposed with images of scars on statues of Jesus Amie took on trips to Italy, San Francisco and NYC. Amie explained to DoN that pilgrims visit these statues and touch the scars as a form of worship. The display is visceral and poetic with the mind’s eye mixing up the stone skin with the real skin and entire movie length memes playing out about how the sculptor developed such skill or what a horrible burn must feel like or the healing from a grueling surgery. Shoshka found it hard to take at first but as the eye absorbs the photography the true beauty of scars is revealed. Amie explained that one burn victim was complemented on the beauty of his scars while in San Francisco with the admirer wondering where he could get one
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links for 2009-06-09

  • Here is a set of additive color model conversion algorithms that I found published on Wikipedia and have implemented in JavaScript. It was surprisingly difficult to find these actually implemented anywhere in compact, efficient, and bug-free code, so I wrote my own. These should be easily portable to other programming languages if desired.
  • I’d never really bothered to learn the relationship between RGB values and the hex code so often seen in CSS files. With a little investigation it appeared that it’s not that difficult a concept to grasp

    In computing truecolour graphics describe 256 shades of Red, Green and Blue. This equates to somewhere in the region of 16 million different colours (256 x 256 x 256). Truecolor can be represent as three separate RGB values, such as 255, 255, 255 for white, but can also be described by a hexadecimal code such as #FFFFFF.

    Hexadecimal is a base-16 numeral system. The symbols 0-9 and A,B,C,D,E,F represent values 0 - 15 respectively. Each truecolor RGB value maps very nicely to a two digit hexadecimal code as 16 x 16 = 256. Therefore in the white example #FFFFFF, each two digit code (FF) represents 255 for each of the of the RGB colour channels.

    Converting an integer to a hex value is therefore very simple using javascript’s built in Integer.toString() method

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links for 2009-06-08

  • This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library.
  • Some time ago I was doing some proof of concept: how Visual Studio docking functionality can be done with jQuery and unordered lists. Basically, the main goal was to implement multiple docking and undocking functionality. This tutorial will show you the results of PoC.

    This is how docking should behave:
    1. When user hovers an item on vertical menu, its submenu should slide in from left to right (points 1 and 2 in the image below) and overlay the content
    2. When user move the mouse pointer outside the panel it should slide back
    3. If user clicks on "Dock" link (point 3 in the image below), panel should fix in the current position while content moves to the right of the panel in order to be seen
    4. If users "undock" the panel it should slide back

  • This tutorial covers the basics about creating a SpaceTree-like visualization. If you want to know more about this visualization I’d recommend you to visit the documentation for the input JSON data, the Canvas Widget, and the SpaceTree layout, where you can find detailed information about its configuration options and controller methods.
  • Here you can see tabs in action. They are the most popular user-interface component on the web. And for good reason: they are intuitive to use, people are used to them, and above all your can organize your pages more friendly.

    Motivation
    Tabs are the most imporant UI widget on the web and this tool is the best implementation you can find.

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links for 2009-06-05

  • Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 41,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety.
  • Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights.”–Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling
  • The main idea of the spacetree algorithm is to take the most common tree layout, and to expand nodes that are “context-related” .i.e lying on the path between the root node and a selected node. Useful animations to contract and expand nodes are also included.
  • Vintage-inspired 1950s oh-so familiar 3-slot style pay phone replica, with functional coin slots that lead to an integrated bank (with a key to open - oh, and you don't need a coin to make a call). Features a rotary dial fashion plate (with push button technology), on/off ringer volume control, redial, tone/pulse switch and earpiece volume control. Wall mountable. Imported. Wipe clean.
    * Mounting hardware included
    * 6"w, 16"h, 6"d
    * Plastic, electronics
    * Shipping charge: $4
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  • We’ll show you how CouchDB’s schema-free document model is a better fit for common applications, how the built-in query engine is a powerful way to use and process your data, and how CouchDB’s design lends itself to modularization and scalability.
  • This is the third article of our four-part series, "The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress". We are taking a look at 40+ quality and useful WordPress Plug-ins that will turn a simple WordPress site into a blazing fast dynamic one, with easily managed content, that you and your clients will love to use.
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