March 2009
9 posts
WatchThis is a small chunk of a music video i did for uni using ruby-processing.
It was a lot of work, but fun, most of the time. The original program runs horribly slow (which is my fault). Maybe I’ll try to improve performance using some more advanced tricks sometime.
It works like this
Read through all pixels of a black/white (1-bit) bitmap image, set a “Point” on each white...
Exploring Tokyo Cabinet
Tokyo Cabinet is a database thing for storing key/values, written by Mikio Hirabayashi. It also has a network service thing, which is called Tyrant (“TT”).
Main entry point is the Toky Cabinet website http://tokyocabinet.sf.net/index.html
It includes a detailed description about it’s features.
It’s stable and fast, but not well known outside of Japan.
Here’s an...
but does it float →
Phad KAPOOOWWW!
Getting started with Ruby-Processing
Hmmkay, during the semester at SoAD i started playing with Processing. I wanted to create a music video using the normal Java based Processing implementation. I don’t have any profound knowledge about Java and i want to improve my Ruby-Fu. So someday i rewrote the stuff i had so far using Ruby-Processing.
- What? Why? What is this stuff? What are you talking about? I have heared about...
hackety org ยป How Are Those Guys Datamoshing? →
I googled half a day, how to get the number of seconds since Unix epoch. oO It’s just too easy:
Time.now.to_i