my digital playground

This week’s task were about 3D modelling in Processing. You can build your own objects and figures based on vertices. But Processing is also capable of importing 3D models in various formats from your favourite modeling program. (continue reading…)

This post is all about video. I created a small video recorder and a tiny app which tracks brightness and a specific color. (continue reading…)

This weeks tasks were all about color and how we can use Processing to work with them. (continue reading…)

According to Wikipedia, “Image editing” encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Images are stored in a computer in the form of a grid of picture elements, or pixels. These pixels contain the image’s color and brightness information.

In our case, we altered digital photos and learned mor about how to manipulate pixels and techniques to overlay several images. (continue reading…)

As you can see on the ZFS open source page the ZFS-on-mac-project has been terminated:

The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.

Originally ZFS has been designed and developed by Sun Microsystems. ZFS is was a file system and logical volume manager with great abilities. It supported high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. As usual of Sun, ZFS is implemented as Open Source. (continue reading…)

Also playing and generating MIDI sounds with Processing is quite easy. I did a small applet which plays a choosen MIDI-File and generates some sounds. (continue reading…)

Unfortunately, Thawte’s Web of trust is going to be discontinued on the 16th of November 2009. It’s a pity that they will stopp this service – considering the time all the WoT notaries spent onto this. (continue reading…)

Today’s processing task was about programming a music player. There are several ways to implement music tasks (playing, recording etc.). I took the Minim library. Another one is the Ess audio library. I heard from my colleague Jürg Stalder that Minim didn’t work on his Mac Book and therefore he realized it with Ess – and as we can see, it works too.
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After “snowing” Apple’s Leopard (I did a completely new install) I installed Adobe Acrobat 9. The installation run through quite well without errors. But then I saw, that Adobe’s PDF Printer is missing in the printer section… (continue reading…)

Also the audio-part is covered by the multimedia module at HSLU. This time we had to use the free audio editor and recording application Audacity. Audacity is cross-platform and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.
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