Archive for the ‘thirdavedesign’ Category

Release of Kinetic Sketch

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Modern Carpenty and Third Ave Design are proud to announce the release of Kinetic Sketch.  Kinetic Sketch is a physics based drawing tool which both entertaining to play with, and also a powerful tool for image creation and sharing. In a kinetic sketch drawing session, a user can add shapes ( ...

Fun with SWFAddress, Tweener, and animating the URL

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I've been playing around with doing some animations in the URL and also the title bar. The very awesome SWFAddress makes it quite easy to play around with. I started out with some very simple blinking, here and after that, moved on to some simple animation loops,  here and since that wasn't enough, ...

tweening .flv frames

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I've been working with some cool .flv stuff for awhile. In light of joe turgeon's work with stop motion photography, and its possible application to video, I have become very interested in manipulating every frame of a video mathematically. click on any picture to check it out. The linked example may take a ...

Invitation to DRUPAL DAY

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Enough talk, back to the fun stuff: I am very pleased to extend an invitation to the first annual Drupal Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It will be held from 10:00am to 5:00pm, and will be a good place to start learning Drupal if you haven't. If you ...

Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have recently been working on creating flash websites that are running off of a Drupal CMS. This approach to bringing content into flash is pretty slick for a couple of reasons: it provides the maintainer of a website a user friendly way to put content into their website with ...

Trapped inside a GreatWhite streaming video cube

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I've been playing around with a lot of video stuff way back since Phunky (man, those were the days, weren't they?) Anyways, thought I'd post a cool example of how to do streaming video, on six sides of a cube, in Great White. If you've never set up an .flv ...

release of 3d histogram

Friday, November 16th, 2007

on Tuesday the 13th , together with joe turgeon of arithmetric, we released our first web application together - 3dhistogram.com.   This tool analyzes the r,g, and b values of every pixel in an image and returns a set of data which is used to graph up to 1200 cubes ...

Short Circuits

Monday, November 12th, 2007

TwinCities Open Circuit, a local technology knowledge information sharing network which I have been recently involved with, has been organizing an event called ShortCircuits. The event will be a series of presentations on how to utilize open source technologies in order to build community. I'll be doing ...

enough with the colored cubes, already: a Preview

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

some recent experiments with arithmetric have led towards new ideas. a small image map of our experiences is below: