Light Paint Live is a webcam program that lets you paint with light!
It’s great for amateur and professional light-painters alike. Amateurs can use it to experiment with light painting without having to buy an expensive camera, and pros can use it as a heads-up display for their DSLR camera.
Light Paint Live (LPL) is a new creative medium for photography. It shows pictures developing in real-time! In addition to emulating long-exposure photography, it also has controls that affect how the light is captured – like color-shift, and light-threshold. LPL applies effects in real-time, without any post-processing!
Visit the site, check out what it can do, and try it for yourself: LightPaintLive.com
Xtrudr is a javascript drawing experiment. To use it, just click and drag – change parameters if you’re in the mood, and use the keyboard controls for more fine-tuned drawing.
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If you’re feeling creative, select the pencil tool and make your own shape to extrude!
These images were created by re-encoding and sometimes extracting red, blue, and green values into their own pixels. It was mostly a learning experience, but still yielded some pretty cool pictures.
They’re best viewed at 100%, so be sure to click on the magnifying glass above the image.
This app combines two of my favorite things – drawing and sound-visualization! It uses sound to control the properties of a drawing tool!
Instructions:
Once the music loads, click and drag to draw. Alternatively, you can use a microphone (click activate mic at the top)!
Controls:
In addition to the obvious controls (tools-left, edit-bottom, sound-top), there are also keyboard controls for changing properties and editing the drawing on-the-fly!
[ ] – tool size
< > – transparency
ctrl+z – undo
ctrl+y – redo
ctrl+s – save
ctrl+n – new
Tools:
And here’s something I did with the “complex” tool:
This site was made in two days, as a part of a job application for Riot Games. I thought it was a good excuse to come up with an xml-based cms. Also, I think the film-strip-style character picker is pretty awesome. I wouldn’t consider this finished, but it’s definitely something I’ll post!
This blog was recently consumed by my hosting service, so I’m attempting to piece it back together. I’m not going to re-post everything – just the best stuff.
To start, here’s five flash-based creations, all packaged up into one link!
I’ve been getting more into manipulating bitmap data, and it’s a ton of fun! This app animates a strange attractor based on values set in the control panel. The values will bounce around inside the range that is set.
There are four algorithms to pick from; two are by famous dead mathematicians, and two are mine.
The Algorithms:
Peter De Jong
x’ = sin(a * y) – cos(b * x)
y’ = sin(c * x) – cos(d * y)
Josh 1 (I think these are called Lissajous curves)
x’ = cos(a * y * x) – c * sin(a * x * y)
y’ = cos(b * x * y) + d * sin(b * y * x)
Josh2 (not a strange attractor, but still cool looking)
x’ = Math.sin(a * x) – c * Math.cos(a * y) / x;
y’ = Math.sin(b * y) + d * Math.cos(b * x) / y;
If you want to experiment with a wider range of strange attractors, there are a couple of programs to grab: Chaoscope and Apophysis. They’re both a lot of fun, and can render out some pretty large images (say, for printing).
