informal dialogue

You should use GREP.
If you haven’t heard of grep before, it’s a very fancy pattern search tool for text editors. Think of the ‘find’ function but with more advanced capabilities such as searches for whitespace characters, end of line/file or particular character patterns.
I’ve become accustomed to some of the more trivial but useful tricks [...]

This is a quick test of HasCanvas for publishing processing sketches in a web browser.  HasCanvas is built on the very nifty processing.js platform, which means publishing processing sketches is about as easy as clicking 1 + 2 + 3.
see for yourself;

For students in the 11217 introduction to construction class;
Here is an example of a simple metronome counter which moves a line up and down a sketch window over a period of time.  You should be able to follow the comments included to see how you might plug your sensors and motors into this sketch to [...]

Here’s a simple example for connecting a PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 to a computer, using Processing.
You will need to download the phidget21.jar package from the phidgets website, find it in the ‘Programming’ section in the java examples section.  Once downloaded, just use Sketch>Add File… to add the file to your sketch.  Connect via USB and you’re ready [...]

I’m currently preparing for a short piece of processing tutoring in the Bachelor of Architecture course, commencing tomorrow.  The course is a 1st year construction subject, in which the year group is designing modular structures from found objects (read; whatever they can find in large amounts at Reverse Garbage), with a  12-15 unsuspecting students are [...]

I’ve spent a bit more time cleaning up the fluid blobs examples I made last week, this time limiting the Region of Interest and fiddling with the fluid interaction.  Also newly included is a smarter way to interact with the blobs (in the code, i mean), pulling out more precise locational data.  I’ll be looking [...]

Linked below are some early results from a new series of sketches I’ve been working on using Processing.  These sketches continue in a long line of projects I’ve completed recently using simple camera tracking algorithms to infer interesting patterns of movement in urban spaces.
The first example is a calibrated blob tracking experiment, using the excellent [...]

In addition to my involvement with the janus project for the Smart Light Sydney Festival, Joanne Jakovich and I were invited to collaborate with the NSW Department of Planning in an ambitious short term project during the festival.  The Department of Planning, along with Metropolis and D-City had the initiative to setup a small amount [...]

This is a video of the latest updates for the pixeltag project. So far I’ve had to be satisfied with screen grabs or photos from the interactivation studio, but I’ve taken the leap and made it safely into videoland – or should I say vimeoland.
Enjoy!
pixeltag v2.0 from Jason McDermott on Vimeo.

pixeltag widescreen, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.

Pixeltag Installed in the Interactivation studio, spanning over the full double-width projection space.

Pixeltag updated, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.

This is a screenshot of the updated pixeltag project, as exhibited at World Bar on the 25th of last month.
I’m still working through some of the smaller bugs associated with the gravity module and wii remote connection – but overall I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along.
More [...]

Here are a few screenshots of the latest and greatest for the pixelTag project.
I’ve taken the time to port some of the interaction and visualisation out of Max/MSP into Processing.  So far the button presses are working fine as well as the r/g/b/a colour selection options and the size choice.
pixelTag will be unleashed on an [...]

I’ve gone crazy overnight, writing out as many of the sketch examples included in Dan Shiffman’s Learning Processing book~
So far I’ve worked my way through to chapter 5 (of 23) and so far it’s still making sense!
Some of the sketch exercises I’ve completed are inserted below;

Not exactly life changing so far, but it’s good to [...]

I’ve started from scratch, learning Processing using Dan Shiffman’s handy book Learning Processing.
Above is the first little creation from the book, a little creature called Zoog, which I’ll be wiring up to respond to mouse clicks and all kinds of computer interactivity.  It’s not much to start with, but it’s fun to get my hands [...]