Yet another thing I’ve been working on over the last few weeks. A particle system alphabet, where typing new letters pushes the old letter out of the way. I’m working on a few different applications for this, which will hopefully see this page in the future!
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Here’s a bit of preview into the games of Roku. I posted a video of one cell moving about a few weeks ago. Here are screen shots from the video game which is controlled by an XBox 360 controller.

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My good friend Mike Levy has been working on a Tartan Generator as a small freelance project for a performance artist here on campus. After a bit of work this evening, he and I managed to get it to parse the existing Tartan file format (can you believe such a thing exists?) and do some clever tweening between randomly picked historically accurate plaid patterns using my Shapetween library.

I think the result is pretty sexy. His next steps are going to be tweaking those colors. I’m sure these colors look great when selected from dyed yarns, but on screen we just need nicer color translations.

A quick sketch of what the interaction for browsing a video Q & A might look like.

Since this is a little rough (and only uses images and has no audio) I will explain what you see here. First you watch the video question, which lasts about 5 seconds. The scene zooms out and the already submitted answers pop out into view. The answers play silently on loop, mousing over will cue in the audio. Clicking will zoom it into full screen.

Since there isn’t much background on Blab!, here’s a quick synopsis. I’m working with a small group on designing a tool for flirting online through the use of video messages. The goal is to link up those with few local friends due to being new to an area, busy, or what have you. Mostly to have a little fun online while founding new relationships. It’s been fun so far.