.as .fla .swf .air

 GeoIP is a software library by MaxMind which can determine the location of a site visitor. It will be used in a project I am working on. For now, you can test it here.

 Much better than the "recovery console" of Windows. Link.

For an interactive installation that I am developing with my master advisor, Silvia Laurentiz, I need to know how many black pixels a b/w image has. It is an easy task with EyesWeb and HistogramSimple block. I am publishing this patch, despite it is so simple, because few EyesWeb block are well documented.

Some weeks ago, I was reading the site of Marginalia Project when I found this:
http://marginalia-project.blogspot.com/2008/06/anamorfoses-cronotpicas-projeto.html

Today, I was working with some code to manipulate images from a web cam, in Flash, when I realised that implementing the algorithm created by Zbigniew Rybczynsk in Flash would be very easy. So easy that I made it in less than half-hour

The code is here. To see it in action, all you need is a web cam. Click here to see Fourth Dimension algorithm implemented in Flash.

Finally, I would like to thank Marginalia guys for the idea, and for the great project they are doing with Processing.

By Hide Winston.

I am working in a blob tracker for use with BitmapBlobDetection. It is not ready yet, but I am releasing its filter package. The main idea is to have a set of filter to be applied to the list returned by DisplayObjectContainer.getObjectsUnderPoint(). Maybe these filters can be useful for other projects.

Two very interesting developments around the idea of doing Processing in Flash:

• processingas
• Bloom

Thanks to Sandy and with the great help of Makc and other guys at FlashSandy forums, I finished my new portfolio of net and digital art works. It can be seen here.

About the choice of Sandy:
I started the project studying the three engines: Sandy, Papervision and Away. Due to its great documentation, tutorials and forum, the progress with Sandy was much faster than with the other two engines. I still want to study them better, but, for now, Sandy is my engine of choice. It has a very elegant class structure, and the time of development wasn’t so high as I could initially expect.

I needed a kind of "PixelMaterial", like PixelModeler, by Andy Zupko (for Papervision), for use with Sandy. So I wrote one, based on WireFrameMaterial and LineAttributes (from the original Sandy library). You can download the sources here, and see it working here.

Because I want to put the events processing (events related to blobs) in another package, I am now releasing the sources of BitmapBlobDetection, with the sources of the examples of previous post. Look at it for more details.