Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.

"Glass showed his genius in serving an overlooked demographic - stylish hipsters who secretly enjoy hearing "Most interesting character I ever met" stories, but wouldn't be caught dead with Readers Digest. Like all the best innovations, this one provides the innovator more leisure time, allowing Glass to make his smarmy introductions, then step aside and really concentrate on that lozenge, while hired goons like former Harper's editor Paul Tough and the overexposed, undertalented Sarah Vowell (herself an EGG semifinalist) do the dirty work."

"Ambivalent about pedophilia? The novel is never ambivalent about Humbert. It's enthusiastic about him, supports him, and cheers his every move - because it's told in first person, by the molester. Thus, every perversion, every abuse, every day that Humbert holds Lolita prisoner is seen as Keatsian poetry. Of course it never condemns Humbert; it champions him. It's what you call irony, as big as a barn, and Lyne has missed it so completely you wonder if a man with his eyesight should be allowed to drive. If Lyne has actually made a film purporting to show both sides of child-fucking can you blame the mob?"

I'm pleased to announce the release of djangoembed, a django app for consuming and providing rich media. OEmbed is a format for allowing a rich representation of a url. If you've used Facebook you've probably seen this feature before — linking a YouTube video will embed an actual video player in the news feed, automatically. The player is represented by some HTML, plus there may be additional metadata like the author, a link to their channel, the title of the video, or even a thumbnail.

A simple jQuery plugin that uses OEmbed API to help displaying embedded content (such as photos or videos) in your website.

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

A hexagon is a six-sided polygon.

The inradius , circumradius , sagitta , and area of a regular hexagon can be computed directly from the formulas for a general regular polygon with side length and sides,

* Deserialize any params string, the document query string or fragment into an object, including the new jQuery.param format ======
* Merge any URL plus query string or fragment params—in an object, params string or second URL (including the current document location)—into a new URL. ======
* Update the “URL attribute” (ie. a[href], img[src], form[action], etc) in multiple elements, merging any URL plus query string or fragment params—in an object, params string or second URL (including the current document location)—into a new URL, which is then set into that attribute. ======
* Push (and retrieve) bookmarkable, history-enabling “state” objects or strings onto the document fragment, allowing cross-browser back- and next-button functionality for dynamic web applications ======
* Bind event handlers to a normalized, cross-browser hashchange event

this table saw is the winner according to Home Despot.

ART in the AIR
General information:

Deadlines for submission for the remainder of 2010:
7/27 … 8/24 … 9/21 … 10/26 … 11/18
Submissions that are not selected but ranked high by selection committee will be reinserted for consideration in following months.
Artists are encouraged to submit new material each month but not more than 3 works per month.
ARTIST GUIDELINES AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION

The Art in the Air program is open to all digital artists & animators residing in the Tri-State Area (PA, NJ, DE).
Digital works must be no more than 30 seconds in length.
Digital works may not include the use of proper nouns.
Submissions must be original works that have been created within the last five years and artists must own the complete rights to their video submissions.

There are examples of curves (in the sense of continuous maps from the real line to the plane) that completely cover a two-dimensional region of the plane. We give a construction of such a Peano curve, adapted from David Hilbert's example. The construction is inductive, and is based on replacement rules.

Coding in openFrameworks feels a lot like working with Processing so it might be easy to convert some of my old Processing sketches to openFrameworks. In this first article I’m going to compare some of the functions of openFrameworks to those of Processing to show you how easy it is to move from one platform to the other

Awesome page of circuits of guitar effects…

Because of programmers' traditional slavish adherence to Euler-angle rotation methods, there would seem, at first, to be no way out of the "uncommanded z-rotation" dilemma. But in fact, as first pointed out by Ken Shoemake (at SIGGRAPH '85), quaternion algebra provides a solution to this very problem.

Quaternions were conceived (as an extension of complex numbers to higher dimensions) in 1843 by the mathematician William Hamilton. They bear a strong resemblance to complex numbers - that is, numbers of the form a + bi, where a is a real number and bi is the so-called imaginary term (i being equivalent to the square root of -1). A quaternion is a four-component number (hence the name) of the form:

q = a + bi + cj + dk

You called this thing a pad, you say? And it was a handheld tablet in 1996? Interesting…

A visual survey of artists working at the frontiers of science and technology. Focus on work since 2000. Covers artistic experimentation in fields such as biology, ecology, medical research, physics, geology, robotics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, information visualization, and body sensing computer interfaces. 200+ pages ~270 color illustrations
A companion website to the book including links to artists, organizations, bibliographies and other resources not included in the book (see below).
Overview: Art/Science Convergence as Emerging Art Field
Science and art - twin pillars of creativity and innovation in any dynamic culture. Commonly they are seen as different as day and night. Many contemporary artists reject this. They are creating revolutionary art at the frontiers of scientific research that is breathtaking in its creative reach and mind-stretching in its assault on traditional categories.

Get ready to have a blast making custom rub-on transfers. We spent hours researching the best way to make smudge free, rub-on transfers that could be used in scrapbooking and rubber stamping craft projects. We had a wonderful time using computer fonts to create titles for scrapbook pages as well as unique rub-on embellishments for our homemade cards. This fast, inexpensive technique can be used to make some incredibly wonderful designs for your next project!

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Located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, WeirdStuff Warehouse contains a HUGE store that is open to the public in Sunnyvale, CA. Whether your looking for complete systems and laptops, cables, software, printers, network equipment, doo-hickies, or vintage electronics, you can probably find it in our Sunnyvale Store. We also run a Weekly Sealed Bid Sale which gives our local customers a chance to purchase high end equipment for low prices. For more information on the Bid Sale, click here.

jquery plug-in for doing shopping site style photo zooms- good for artist's website?

Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:

Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, Field tries to bridge to as many libraries, programming languages, and ways of doing things as possible. Live code makes anything possible — Field tries to replace as many "features" with editable code as it can. Its programming language of choice is Python — a world class, highly respected and incredibly flexible language.

CINDER PROVIDES A POWERFUL, INTUITIVE TOOLBOX for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry. Cinder is cross-platform, and in general the exact same code works under Mac OS X, Windows and a growing list of other platforms — most recently the iPhone and iPad.

Cinder is designed to take advantage of platforms’ native capabilities whenever it’s possible, and relies on a minimum of 3rd party libraries. This makes for much lighter, faster applications, and means Cinder apps get free performance, security and capability upgrades whenever the operating system does.

Processing Layers is a simple library for the Processing languange. The concept of layering is very familiar to anyone who uses drawing tools like Photoshop or Gimp. This library allows Processing developers to create sketches with multiple layers that are drawn independently of one another. Each layer has its own draw() method. This indepedence between layers allows some layers to change without affecting others. For example, you can use a layer to animate some thing without having to redraw everything that is "behind" it. Layers can be added and removed from a sketch dynamically.

controlP5 is a library written by Andreas Schlegel for the programming environment processing. Last update, 03/29/2010.

ControlP5 is a GUI and controller library for processing that can be used in authoring, application, and applet mode. controllers are easily added to a processing sketch, can be arranged in separate control windows, and can be organized in tabs or groups. → read more.

This formula creates some beautiful and very organic shapes that can be used in other graphics to make a dynamic graphic composition (either interactive or static). Doing this in Matlab or Mathematica is interesting, but I wanted to make something a little more interactive, minimal and fun to play with so I designed a application that can be used to create these shapes and render an image of them at a super high resolution, like the image below (5333×2100). I’m developing a 3D version of this that should be stellar to play with, coming very soon

"When a non-numeric character is anywhere in the string, all is well: ColdFusion serializes the JSON properly. In the cases where an identification number consists of a collection of numeric values only (i.e., 000123), ColdFusion's SerializeJSON function will convert this value (000123) from a string to a number (123.0). I tried a few things to fix it, Googled for answers, but had no luck. "

really interesting spanish surrealist comic from the 60s or 70s?

very nice demo of jquery selectors - allows you to test jquery selectors on a piece of html by highlighting what's returned by your selector.

Using this routine, we can take webcam video (e.g., from our MacBook Pro's built-in camera), sample it in a Processing routine, and send it to be displayed on the 625 LEDs of the Peggy 2.

Some months ago we wrote about Jay's previous project: sending video to a Peggy 2 with a hardware serial port added.

Diagram for buffering signal from PXL

A solenoid is a coil of wire with a magnetic core. This is virtually identical to a large inductor, so it should not be surprising that they have inductance. i.e. Once a current is moving in the solenoid it will attempt to continue moving that current. This can be fatal to your digital device when it switches off the solenoid and the solenoid creates a voltage across its leads large enough to either move the current, arc through the air, or burn through a semiconductor. The solution is to provide an easy and safe path for the current to flow until it dissipates the energy stored in the magnetic fields of the solenoid.

link directory to audio circuits

This simple circuit mixes two or more channels into one channel (eg. stereo into mono). The circuit can mix as many or as few channels as you like and consumes very little power. The mixer is shown with two inputs, but you can add as many as you want by just duplicating the "sections" which are clearly visible on the schematic.

This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I will cover the basic design, including code and hardware that anyone can use to add sound to Arduino microcontroller projects.

This lab is an introduction to generating simple tones on an Arduino. NOTE: This will work only for Arduino 0018 and beyond. For previous versions, use Brett Hagman's Tone library

This is an experiment to show how some realtime audio processing can be done with the Arduino. The first set of examples alter an incoming audio signal and put it back to an audio output. We achieve effects like Reverb, Phasor, Flanger or Ringmodulator. The second set of examples are outputting computed waveforms like Sinewave, Bell and Xylophone sounds.

The Soundgin is a serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC.
It produces complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and English speech with an unlimited vocabulary.
For use in manufactured electronics and home projects.

Amstrong is a collection of routines to make the building and prototyping of musical instruments on the Arduino very much easier. It abstracts the hardware pins from their function and supports serial communications, allowing sounds to be played on remote hardware (PC or synthesizer) without additional coding.

It comprises of Arduino source code to:

Process analog input
Process digital input
Play individual notes
Play music (using the Armstrong Music Format)
Transmit the notes played to a PC (via USB/serial)
Send MIDI out messages

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Electronics
Content: 802.11 technology, AC induction motor, analog techniques, antennas, audio, Automation and Control, AVR, Baluns, Barcode, Basic Stamp, Batteries, Blu-ray Disc, Blue tooth, bridge circuits, cabling, capacitor types, CDMA, coils, communication techniques, compression techniques, cvrystal radio, DAC/ADC types, data sheets, DC motor, DC generator, decibels, decoder, digital logic, diode, DOLBY, domotics, DSP, DTMF, DVBT, EMC, ESD, electricity, Electromagnetic levitation, electromagnetism, electronic circuits, electrostatics, encoders, fiber technology, filters, fuses, generator… etc.

The thumb piano, known as a kalimba or mbira and by many other names, is a lamellaphone that uses plucked prongs called tongues, keys or tines to generate acoustic vibrations. The length of the tine determines the pitch.

Generally, the thumb piano uses some kind of mechanism to create a great deal of pressure to anchor the tines across 2 bridges which allows the free lengths of the tines room to vibrate. The tines are usually of the same material and gauge (thickness) to ensure consistency so the pressure is distributed equally holding everything in place and in tune.

Disk Space Fan is a freeware and it is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk space usage with a nice chart. You can navigate the folders easily with the chart. It is also intergrated with Windows Explorer to open, delete and browse files or folders.

"The huge collection of electronic circuit diagrams are provided here…"

"Jon Williams, of EFX-TEK, suggested that to control the angle of sensitivity, the sensor could be mounted in a PVC end cap and an appropriate length of PVC fitted to control the angle. I tried this using a three inch end cap as shown at left. The first thing I discovered was that the mounting holes on the circuit board are very small and require nothing larger than a 2-56 screw. There's really no room to drill out the holes any larger without damaging the circuit board. I also found that if you want to use a three pin servo type connector, you'll probably need to drill a hole in the cap to accommodate this connector as shown at right."

Schematic for driving multiple leds from one Arduino pin. (abstract: use a mosfet or transistor)

Smashing Mag roundup of font stack articles, tools, etc.

I viewed each of the jQuery plugins in the jQuery plugins repository. I couldn't believe how many there were! So I decided to make this master list to weed out any plugins that were either broken or I didn't find any practical application for. You will notice I added, "EXCELLENT" to the plugins that I thought were exceptional.

a nice interactive toy for testing regex

The LED series/parallel array wizard is a calculator that will help you design large arrays of LEDs. The LED calculator was great for single LEDs–but when you have several, the wizard will help you arrange them in a series or combined series/parallel configuration. The wizard determines the current limiting resistor value for each portion of the array and calculates power consumed. All you need to know are the specs of your LEDs and how many you'd like to use.

Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

The Floor Mat Switch works by spacing two strips of metal apart with thin squares of foam in-between them every .75 inches. The pairs of metal strips are spaced out 2.5 inches from each other for the length of the mat. When someone steps on the mat their weight presses the two metal strips together creating a closed contact. All the strips are connected down both sides of the mat creating one large switch.

The individual strips can be cut apart to create individual switches and the mat itself can be cut into pieces for placing the switches any where you wish around a room.

The Switch Floor Mat is a perfect low cost solution for monitoring large areas of floor space. The mat is most often used in security applications, but is also used for projects such as interactive arts, stage triggers for plays, animal behavior tracking, and more. The mat can be placed underneath carpeting.

PHPmotion Media Sharing CMS - PHPmotion is a free video sharing software that also has support for other types of media such as audio/mp3 sharing. The Content Managent System or (media cms application) will allow you to create and run your very own Video Sharing website, Music Sharing Site, Picture Sharing Site. With very little knowledge required you can now have a website just like youtube.com , dailymotion.com, veoh, hi5 and best of all, its 100% free to download and use.