Super Macro video with the 7D

Yesterday I found out that a lens mount adapter I had would enabled me to attach some old Pentax lenses from my grandpa (about 25 years old) to my Canon 7D. I also had some extension tubes with these lenses so I decided to experiment with shooting some super macro video. Check out the video […]

January 2, 2011

Jackson Pollock – From AS2 to AS3

I found a Jackson Pollock style painting example written in AS2 called ‘Splatter’ over at stamen.com. I wanted to include a Pollock style brush in my painting application so I converted it into AS3. Just copy and past the following code into a new AS3 document in Flash.

December 30, 2010

Spray Paint stenciling in Flash

After seeing the Wii Spray demo videos a year or so ago I have since been wondering how they did the stencils. I couldn’t find any information on how to achieve an effect like paint stenciling so today I decided to give it a shot myself. Below is a small demo where you can have […]

December 8, 2010

Multitouch Paint – Part 2

Here is an updated version of my MT Paint application. Some of the improvements are: New UI (work in progress) Custom canvas size Up to 5 Layers with Merge and Duplicate Layer Blend Modes, Opacity and Visibilty Load in Image to layer Get Colour From Layer – select a layer to live sample colours from […]

November 17, 2010

DSI Multitouch construction – Part 4.5

This is just a small update with a few new photos… I’ve have now painted the table top black, I used a matte black spray paint (because I think its easier to get an even colour with) and then went over the top with a clear gloss. A also made a temporary top cover and […]

November 11, 2010

DSI Multitouch construction – Part 4

Its been a while since I posted an update on my Multitouch coffee table. I am still working on it, just little bits at a time so no significant progress has been made worth posting. But here are some more photos of the progress. I will have some more recent shots up later in the […]

November 9, 2010

Multitouch Paint

Multitouch Paint ( I haven’t given it a proper name yet) is a painting application I have been working on over the last couple weeks. Basically I wanted to create an app that was more then simple solid lines you see with most other Flash painting programs. I wanted something that was more like paint […]

November 8, 2010

Videos from Adobe MAX Sneaks

Below is some videos taken at the Adobe MAX 2010 conferences during Sneaks sessions. Sneaks sessions are a chance for Adobe to demonstrate prototypes and new technologies that may or may not make it into future Adobe products. Some pretty interesting stuff! Typography of Code- a new way of displaying and reading code for designers […]

October 28, 2010

The future of 3D and Flash

Below are some videos from the new 3D apis codenamed ‘Molehill’ to be included in the next version of Flash. This was announced at the Adobe MAX conference yesterday. This is some pretty amazing stuff… full 3D maps and all done on the GP

October 26, 2010

Comparing custom font display with @font-face

This is a little experiment I conducted comparing the way different browsers render custom fonts through @font-face. What I found was that the two browsers that displayed them best were IE8 and Firefox 4 Beta. The worst browsers were Opera and Safari. Opera seemed to make the characters extra skinny, and Safari made the characters […]

September 23, 2010

The Megahorns Website Refresh

I have just launched a new website design refresh for The Megahorns, a local band from Melbourne. Quite a large band actually with heaps of saxes, trumpets, trombones and drums! The re-design involved building a new WordPress theme from the ground up to incorporate into their existing CMS. The design incorporates graphic elements from their […]

September 21, 2010

Future Interface Concepts

Here is a small collection of my favourite user interface concept videos. You will have to use Red-Blue 3D glasses to watch the second one properly.

September 2, 2010