16.12 Drawing with dots v2

A little drawing application where you can click/drag & draw in 4 colors.
Pick your color on the right, and then click/drag to change the colors.

Download Mac / Windows / Linux

You can make giraffes, mountain ranges, free form art, sushi.
Hitting ‘save’ saves them in the same folder where the program is running.

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15.12 Drawing with dots

And then I made a small drawing application that only allows you to change a dot to white (one click) or yellow (two) and back to black (three).
I wanted to see what it’s like if you have limited options.

Download app: Mac / Windows / Linux

Turns out you can draw an egg, or patterns.
Screen shot 2012-12-25 at 1.36.19 PMScreen shot 2012-12-25 at 1.35.10 PM

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15.12 Mapping the Collection

I want to map Museum Boijmans’ collection, to see how old artists were when their artworks were acquired. Or how old they were when they were made.

As an intermediary project I mapped the (more manageable) city collection, showing:

When were artworks bought:

What kind of artworks were acquired:
What is bought

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04.12 ChuckLotte Revisited

In 2003 I made a chuck close type drawing in photoshop, which – according to this blog, I revisited in 2010 to do in color (which took 1.5 hours then).
Now I wanted to see if I could make it in processing.

And I did.
Download the code 520kb
I guess now I need to make a version where you can upload your own image..

Screen shot 2012-12-25 at 12.58.56 PM

2010 Photoshop

2010 Photoshop

2003 Photoshop

2003 Photoshop

 

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30.11 Timezones and sunrises

When I lived in San Francisco, I felt that somehow it was in the wrong timezone. It appeared that throughout the year, the sun would rise much earlier than in Amsterdam, and would always set much earlier. So I thought you’d get more out of your day if you got up earlier, or if the timezone would change.
To see what would be an ideal timezone, I tweaked my sunrise app to be able to add some time to the sunrise/sunset hours. Thus I found that for me – moving SF a full timezone (one hour) would give more useful daylight.
I mean: Look at how much later it would be light in summer!

Download app: Mac 7.4MB/ Windows 15.2 MB/ Linux 15.2MB

Sunrise Compare SF AMS

I do understand that this would mean that it would be a timezone away from other areas, that it would get cold, because of the fog, at 3pm instead of 4pm. and lots of other things.

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30.11 Interactive Sunrise Sunset chart

I was getting pretty fed up with the shortening days, and to overcome my frustration with an unchangeable situation (and eager to flex some dormant Processing muscles) I decided to visualise the sunrise and sunset hours in various locations.

And added a mood indicator as well.

I found a dataset at: http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/surfbin/first.cgi

Download the app for mac -2.7 MB
Download the app for windows – 15.2 MB

Invercargill_Winter Auckland_Winter Auckland_Summer Jakarta Amsterdam_Summer Amsterdam_winter

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02.21 my first pomelo

I just took way too many pictures of it.

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02.20 abundance observed

I looked through all the pictures I took last week, and noticed these.

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02.19 fig & ginger granola

trying out different flavors. and wanted to use the figs I bought yesterday.


I also realized I bake like crazy these days. I think it’s for a couple of reasons
First of all. it’s a creative endeavor. and it’s fun to make things.. Baking has the added advantage that the results are  usually good even if it doesn’t turn out exactly as you expected. And then you get to share it with others (thank god for roommates. I can bake a lot more now, because I’m not stuck with 11 extra muffins). and I like sugar. a lot.

This in reference to the fact that in the past two weeks I baked:
– 2 x cinnamon rolls (which did NOT rise for some reason)
– 2 x granola
– banana muffins
– chocolate chip cookies with walnuts
– regular chocolate chip cookies

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02.18 castle cubicle wall (group project)

played around with the laser cutter at work to create a cubicle divider for me + chris

castle theme set by chris & north. design by lotte. design advice by chris. saw instructions to four saws (table saw, band saw, etc, etc) by mike. wood provided by earl. laser cutter instruction by north. production by lotte. friday night pretzels provided by maz. rain avoiding drive home by chris.

we’re going to place led’s in the holes in the trees, so it’s like there’re animals looking through them. also. chris said he’d create a drawbridge with some servo’s.

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