How can a textile function as a digital object? This is a central question of Infinite Weft, a project that I’ve been working on for a the last few months. The project is a collaboration with my mother, Diane Thorp, who has been weaving for almost 40 years – it’s a chance for me to [...]
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September 2, 2011
[The above graphic is an interactive 3D bar graph. If you can't see it, it's probably because your browser sucks can't render WebGL content. Maybe try Chrome or Firefox?] Ben Fry and Casey Reas, the initiators of the Processing project, announced at the Eyeo Festival that a new version of Processing, Processing 2.0, will be [...]
In late October, 2009, I received an e-mail from Jake Barton from Local Projects, titled plainly ‘Potential Freelance Job’. I read the e-mail, and responded with a reply in two parts: First, I would love to work on the project. Second, I wasn’t sure that it could be done. The project was to design an algorithm [...]
By Jer
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November 17, 2010
About this time last year, I built a light-weight tool in Processing to compare two articles that I read about head injuries in the NFL. Later, I extended the tool to compare any two texts, and promised a source release. Well, it only took 12 months, but I’ve finally cleaned up the code to a [...]
By Jer
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November 14, 2010
I’ve been working on a project at the New York Times R&D Lab which involves rendering a fair amount of text to screen, which needs to be animated smoothly in real time. I’ve never had much luck working with large amounts of text in Processing, using the traditional approach. But I’ve found a nice way [...]
