Things to Read

JavaScript, The Right Way

10 February 2014

A JavaScript guide intended to introduce new developers and help experienced ones to the JavaScript’s best practices.

Tags: javascript

Lego Color List

10 February 2014

A compilation of the official color names used by the Lego company as part of their plastic building toy lines.

Tags: color, lego

ofxTrueTypeFontUC

10 February 2014

A great add-on for openFrameworks to render text with unicode characters. Works way better than the default ofTrueTypeFont with the character encoding set to OF_ENCODING_UTF8. Useful if you need to render text in European languages with lots of accents like French.

Tags: openframeworks, typography

Eloquent JavaScript

09 February 2014

A book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.

Tags: javascript

SigmaJS

06 February 2014

Sigma is a JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing. It makes easy to publish networks on Web pages, and allows developers to integrate network exploration in rich Web applications.

Tags: data visualisation, javascript

2013 Year in NikeFuel

06 February 2014

A great new project by Fathom for Nike. They created a website where Nike Fuel users can see a visualisation of their activity in 2013, and download it as a poster.

Tags: data visualisation

Where People Run

06 February 2014

A beautiful set of maps showing where people run in cities and some insight in how the project was created. Download the R script to create a visualisation of your own data.

Tags: data visualisation

PShader Tutorial

29 January 2014

A really extensive tutorial on using GLSL shaders in Processing 2.x.

Tags: glsl, processing

Clara.io

29 January 2014

A browser-based 3D modelling app. Haven’t tried it yet, but the tutorial videos look promising.

Tags: 3d, software

A Dive Into Plain JavaScript

28 January 2014

A good overview to get started with modern JavaScript so you can avoid using libraries like jQuery.

Tags: javascript

Creative Coding Days Nantes

27 January 2014

I’m doing a talk and workshop on HE_Mesh and 3D printing at the Creative Coding Days in Nantes later this week. Other people talking and teaching workshops at the conference are Julien Gachadoat, Matt Pearson, Stefan Wagner, Christopher Warnow, and many more…

Tags: hemesh, processing, workshop

Verb

27 January 2014

A CAD library for creating and manipulating nurbs surfaces and curves right in your browser.

Tags: javascript