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.

OR

If you’re feeling creative, select the pencil tool and make your own shape to extrude!

This is a webcam app that chops up the input image to make a “fly eye” effect.

Super bonus: now it’s a music visualizer!

Pixel Seed

For this album, I used pixel data as seeds for drawing instructions. I definitely want to take this further.
I might even get back into Pixel Bender.

Pixel Play

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!

To start, here’s five flash-based creations, all packaged up into one link!

Mini Flash Showcase (watch out for runaway pixels!)

Includes:

• Moire Pattern Generator
• Jim Beckwith’s site
• Crossballer (offline)
• Musical Spheres
• League of Legends Fansite

 Here’s a five-minute tutorial on procedural design in Photoshop! It will change your life!

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)

Clifford Pickover
x’ = sin(a * y) + c * cos(a * x)
y’ = sin(b * x) + d * cos(b * 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).

Thanks to SubBlue for his open-source simple attractor renderer!