Check out the examples and source code at http://runningwithdata.tumblr.com/post/566345323/streamgraph-js

Rock on!

I’ve finally gotten to consolidating the code used to produce the graphics for the paper, cleaning them up and adding crucial comments for better understanding. It’s presented as a processing applet, and available on github.

You can now download the source code for Streamgraphs.

openFrameworks uses a windowing system under the hood called GLUT, or the openGL Utility Toolkit. GLUT’s primary benefit is being exceptionally simple and ubiquitous. Anywhere you can use openGL, you can use GLUT. However GLUT has it’s limitations; in it’s simplicity it lacks full featured events from keyboards, mouse and joystick controllers.

That’s where SDL comes in. SDL is similar to GLUT in many ways, but rather than being made as a general purpose utility like GLUT, it is targeted at simple video game creation. This gives it quite reasonable joystick controller and mouse event support.

Thanks to the work over the last year, openFrameworks has become more and more abstracted from it’s windowing toolkit. This was vital for getting openFrameworks to seamlessly work on an iPhone, where GLUT doesn’t exist. I took advantage of this abstraction and made an addOn called ofxSDL. It will cause openFrameworks to use SDL rather than GLUT as it’s windowing system, giving you access to better joystick support.

ofxSDL is still in infancy, and there is a list of todo items before it could be considered finished, but I wanted to put it out there for anyone interested to use and give feedback on.

Besides keeping your files backed up and computers in sync, it also allows you to share files with others. You’ll never cringe at attaching huge files to emails ever again. However the links to these shared files can look kind of cryptic and unprofessional. If you’re sharing files with clients, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/918273645/file.zip just doesn’t cut it.

I decided to remap these urls to something a little more legible, professional, and just incase a link to a public file starts getting shared like crazy: an intersticial.

I added a subdomain to my website, http://box.leebyron.com to use as the base URL for these links. http://box.leebyron.com/file.zip is the goal.

There are two files in this new subdomain, .htaccess and index.php. Similar to how pretty-urls and custom 404s are implemented.

Check out these files at http://gist.github.com/326328.

In my senior year I gave a presentation to the IDSA in which I had to summarize my work in 7 minutes. I opted to speak over a video, rather than a powerpoint, since it would force me to stick to my time-limit.

It’s been too long since this presentation, and I forget my speech, so you’ll just have to imagine what it was I was babbling while this played.

The central theme was the power of using computation and data in design to create things previously impossible.

I’m happy to make public the slides I used for my talk at /else/ona09.

I made reference to The Dot and The Line, and some of my work at the NYT:

• A Map of Olympic Medals
• Winners in a Long Presidential Campaign
• A Collection of Olympic Torches