Freak out your Processing animations with toxiclibs

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Nov 282010

Who knew Processing could be a gateway drug to these hallucinatory animations? The distributor of this open-source library, that’s who.

toxiclibs is an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing (and soon other languages). After over 3.5 years of continuous development & refactoring, the collection consists of >25k lines of code, 270+ classes bundled into 8 libraries. The classes are purposefully kept fairly generic in order to maximize re-use in different contexts ranging from generative visuals, data visualization to architecture digital fabrication, use as teaching tool in these fields and more…

toxiclibs showreel 2010 from postspectacular on Vimeo.

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Is the world ready for open-source entertainment?

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Oct 122010

Animators using open-source 3D software have begun sharing the code, data, and even tutorials on how to make technically accomplished shorts. But meanwhile, musicians wanting to share their work suffered a setback in Canada when it was revealed that industry lobbyists pressured the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (a public utility) into agreeing not to play Creative Commons-licensed music over their podcasts. Will Hollywood someday pressure theaters not to show movies made with Blender?

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/02/215257/Creative-Commons-Video-Challenges-Hollywoods-Best?from=rss

A short film entitled Sintel was released by the Blender Foundation under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (YouTube link). It was created by an international team of artists working collaboratively using a free, open source piece of 3D rendering software called Blender. No Hollywood studio was involved in its making….

“Next on our todo is wrapping up the 4-dvd box release, NTSC/PAL discs with extras and documentary, and 2 DVD-ROMs with tutorials,and all the data to reproduce the film entirely.”

Here’s a link to the CBC story:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/2346236/CBC-Bans-Use-of-Creative-Commons-Music-On-Podcasts?from=rss

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Stop-action iPad animation

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Sep 192010

Animation is all about time, right? Well, these animations demonstrate that time can be a box you can break out of, thanks to stop-action applied to simple 3d CAD files.

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State-of-the-art animated goo

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Aug 242010

Just look at that slimy software. It’s as though this Softimage researcher, Eric Mootz, is reverse-engineering the work of biologists who are looking at how slime molds resemble computer networks.

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The math behind ray-tracing

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Aug 102010

Animator or game design wannabe? This equation is for you.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/q0mznEX_SNM/ via Byline Want your next animated short to look more real than a Bugs Bunny cartoon? Study up on the equation at the heart of every 3-D rendering package.

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Flashless Flash player -- JavaScript strikes again

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Jan 212010

From Slashdot:

“Someone has gone and done it. Tobias Schneider has created a Flash player written in JavaScript targeting SVG/HTML5-capable browsers. It’s not a complete implementation yet, but it shows real promise. A few demos have been posted online. How long before HTML5/SVG next- generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/ Moonlight?”

The only question is, should we be investing in writing open-source Flash players that use HTML5, or just making open-source animations in HTML5 to begin with?

Flash

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Flashless Flash player -- JavaScript strikes again

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Jan 212010

From Slashdot:

“Someone has gone and done it. Tobias Schneider has created a Flash player written in JavaScript targeting SVG/HTML5-capable browsers. It’s not a complete implementation yet, but it shows real promise. A few demos have been posted online. How long before HTML5/SVG next- generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/ Moonlight?”

The only question is, should we be investing in writing open-source Flash players that use HTML5, or just making open-source animations in HTML5 to begin with?

Flash

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Flashless Flash player -- JavaScript strikes again

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Jan 212010

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From Slashdot:

“Someone has gone and done it. Tobias Schneider has created a Flash player written in JavaScript targeting SVG/HTML5-capable browsers. It’s not a complete implementation yet, but it shows real promise. A few demos have been posted online. How long before HTML5/SVG next- generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/ Moonlight?”

The only question is, should we be investing in writing open-source Flash players that use HTML5, or just making open-source animations in HTML5 to begin with?

Flash

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