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14 February 2010

I've been drawing in sketchbooks for the past eight years and I started posting some of my drawings last year. Here is a small selection of sketches that I like. More of them can be found in my Moleskine Set on Flickr.

Tags: art, illustration

Mirroring Video with openFrameworks - Part II

08 February 2010

I have been busy for the last few weeks but I finally got some time to write the next article on openFrameworks. In this article I'm going to explain the algorithms to change an RGB webcam image to grayscale and how to mirror that grayscale image.

Tags: openframeworks, tutorial

Mirroring Video with openFrameworks

19 January 2010

When you create an installation that uses a webcam to analyse the behavior of people, you often need to mirror the video to use it. In this article I'm going to explain how to do this in openFrameworks.

Tags: openframeworks, tutorial

Introduction to openFrameworks

12 January 2010

I've been playing around with openFrameworks for a while and I decided to write some articles about it. Coding in openFrameworks feels a lot like working with Processing so it might be easy to convert some of my old Processing sketches to openFrameworks. In this first article I'm going to compare some of the functions of openFrameworks to those of Processing to show you how easy it is to move from one platform to the other.

Tags: processing, openframeworks, tutorial

Building a Custom WordPress for iPhone App

29 December 2009

Some time ago I launched the beta version of the new La Vie En Ville website and I recently finished working on the custom WordPress template. The website was made with HTML5 and CSS3 and uses @font-face for styling the titles. The font used on the website is League Gothic The League of Moveable Type.

Tags: photography, software development

iPhone Art

22 October 2009

This weekend I've been playing with some iPhone Art apps. Just showing some of my creations in this post. If you like one of these small artworks you should get the app and support the artists.

Tags: art

squashPong

02 September 2009

In June I participated in the MIT Share Experiment. I didn't win the big prize but I got an Honorable Mention from the jury which is fine too.

Tags: processing

Managing Inspiration

26 August 2009

Every day I spend some time reading RSS-feeds. I read a lot on design, technology, usability, ... Just about anything I'm interested in as a designer. The best articles end up on Delicious for future reference. I also see a lot of inspiring images. Most of these images come from places like ffffound, but does it float, The Dieline and some other design blogs. The images I like end up in my inspiration folder on my computer. So far I have about 4000 of them. I'm using one of the standard Apple Screen Savers to start showing the images at random when I'm away from my computer.

Tags: inspiration

OpenGL ES for iPhone: Drawing a Circle - Part III

27 May 2009

In part 3 we're going to take a look on how we can optimize the code to make our app run smoother. At this moment, all vertices of the circle are calculated each time the view gets drawn. This is a waste of computing power because the values of these vertices don't change. It would be better if we calculate these values once when the program loads.

Tags: tutorial

OpenGL ES for iPhone: Drawing a Circle - Part II

19 May 2009

In the previous article you learned how to draw a circle in OpenGL ES on the iPhone. In this article You will learn how to draw an even better circle.

Tags: tutorial

OpenGL ES for iPhone: Drawing a Circle - Part I

16 May 2009

Moving from Processing to iPhone development is hard. The OpenGL implementation is a little different and there is little documentation available. I've learned a lot by reading Beginning iPhone Development by Dave Mark and Jeff Lamarche and the iPhone Development blog. In these articles I want to share some of the things I've learned. Read this article as an introduction to Generative Design on the iPhone. So let's do some OpenGL programming.

Tags: tutorial