BusyBodies is a project I’ve been working on this semester as an independent study with Jeff, although I’ve been hiding from him lately because I have been dissatisfied with my progress. I need to stop doing that. Anyway, BusyBodies is a video game that lets you create programs in 3D space by arranging [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Letter to self
30Apr06I found this letter when I got in to the office today. I wrote it late last night after reading about the end-user programming workshop at CHI, which I had no idea about. I didn’t have any work to present in the fall, so I didn’t even think to look at the requests [...]
In need of subtitles
28Apr06This is how you sell software:
(people on PlanetInformatics click here)
Dearth of dancing videos
27Apr06It’s been a while since I made a dancing video, and the itch is coming back. Unfortunately, my standards are increasing. I want every video to be better than the last in every respect. To this end, I’ve ordered some dancin’ clothes:
Knee-High Tube Socks - OVER 20 COLORS
Color: White / Kelly [...]
SketchUp
27Apr06I just came across Google SketchUp, a cool little 3D modelling tool that Google recently acquired.
Google SketchUp’s push/pull feature
When I was in high school I was really interested in the design of 3D modelling tools. I used Caligari trueSpace, which has always had a pretty innovative user interface. Traditionally, 3D artists have used [...]
Quiet down in front!
26Apr06Someone forwarded me a link to a site called Boxes and Arrows which has been newly redesigned. The sender mentioned that they found the new, bloggish design much harder to read and that the emphasis on on user ratings and comments distracts from the content of the site.
It got me thinking about ratings and [...]
Macromedia, you pain in my bum
25Apr06WARNING: This entry will have absolutely no redeeming value for anyone except programmers. My apologies to all you non-geeks.
Macromedia Flash has some strange quirks, but I have to say, this is one of the strangest. While debugging some ActionScript, I got the following error:
**Error** C:\Documents and Settings\epukinsk\
[...]
Idea
25Apr06Henceforth, when being photographed, instead of a forced smile, I will wear my emotions on my face.
Proud to be an American?
24Apr06“I know this is an emotional debate,” Bush told the Orange County Business Council. “But one thing we can’t lose sight of is that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sometimes I like our president.
Prototype progress
23Apr06I made some more progree on my prototype today: The entire first stage is basically complete. I am assuming the remaining stages will be a lot faster now that I have the technical framework set up. Also, you can use the right and left arrow keys to step back and forth through the [...]
