Archive for the ‘Cool stuff’ Category

Mar 10, 2010

JPEGlitch test suite

Well, it's been a while, but I finally got an improved test suite together for my JPEG glitching experiments.

The code available here includes the previously released JPEGlitch and JPEGlitch for HYPE, as well as the source for the 'decode glitching', where the JPEG bytes are mangled to add glitches before being loaded.

The interface allows you to control various glitch parameters and you can either process continuously or one step at a time. Each module has a pre-made set of parameters - choose 'example' in the snapshots drop-down of a module window to select them. You can also load /save JPEG images to your local file-system.

The UI might have some minor bugs, but it's usable. I've modified the lovely minimalcomps UI component set from bit-101, adding a custom framework for easy creation of parameter based interfaces. I also added bitmap icons to minimalcomps - compiling the 1000 famfamfam silk icons into a handy SWC - with all icons pre-compiled into buttons for importing into the project. Read more about creating the icon library, read the set-up guide, and get the code to do it separately, here.

This update is a step on the way to a larger suite of byte-glitching tools for images, audio, video, text, or any other file you might want to mess with... no eta. on that, but it's in the brain pipes.

Test suite

Source code

Feb 12, 2010

Browser pong!

Play a bit of pong with browser windows! It doesn't seem to work in Safari though :( and you'll need to turn your popup blocker off.

Feb 5, 2010

MadeByPi Goes Mobile

Now, if you check out our website on your mobile phone, you will noticed how it's gone all mobile-ified (we made that up).

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Feb 4, 2010

Plane branding!

Check out this Kulula Airlines livery for their planes!

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Jan 28, 2010

iPad – first impressions

Well, finally the rumours are over and Apple have announced their tablet - or should I say the iPad (such an obvious name when you think about it). If you haven't already seen it, then watch the video.

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Jan 20, 2010

fffflckr.com – A journey of photographic inspiration.

photographic inspiration

I've just stumbled upon this nice little inspiration tool: fffflckr.com/. If you click on an image it will load a selection of that photographers favorite images using the Flickr API. After clicking away for a bit you'll end up with a big wall of photographic inspiration.

Jan 14, 2010

LEGO steering wheel for the iPhone

This is absolutely brilliant. What could be better than combining LEGO and the iPhone?!

LEGO steering wheel for the iPhone

Jan 13, 2010

JPEGlitch update…

Just a quick update on some new features and improvements to my JPEG glitching code for AS3.

Check out a little demo of newly added 'decode glitching' here and see some test images saved from the Flash, here.

It should work with most JPEGs -  I've implemented and tested parsing for progressive/baseline/optimised etc. But if you find one that won't load, let me know and I'll see if I can add support for it.

This is still a work in progress, so all the user control of glitching and the source code will come at a later date.

Enjoy.