A few years ago, probably around 2004/2005, I took advantage of some source code that Jared Tarbell posted on levitated.net. I was really impressed with the code because the magic was mostly limited to about a dozen lines. Very clean and surprisingly robust!

What’s that? You’ve never heard of the fine vineyards of the Livermore Valley? Well, you aren’t alone.

No, not that ARToolKit stuff. You wont be manhandling fiducial markers with this one. Read all about it on the Barbarian Group blog. Here is a sample video. Augmented webcam study from flight404 on Vimeo.

A while back, I started experimenting with compositing content into a live webcam. Its a fairly simple process: you just need to intercept the webcam feed with something like Processing, add some content to the image, then send it on its way. The original execution involved setting buildings in San Francisco on fire.

Let’s go with a 10 Capri-Sun scale. This Pinot gets a perfect 10 because it pretty much tasted like juice from a sack.

“Jersey Turnpike.” No mention of the judicious oaking or the layers of berry for Rick Webb. “Jersey Turnpike or the FDR,” he repeated.

Friday has arrived and I am totally going to tell you about some stuff that is going on. First up, TweakToday. Fellow Barbarian Bill Lindmeier (yep, the same Bill Lindmeier that sullied my whiteboard with penis sketches) has launched a site that asks people to “do a new thing… every day.” (Keep in mind [...]

Recently, some of my peers (Ooo Shiny!) started chatting about the Tree of Life and the data visualization potential contained within. We came to no specific conclusion other than we all thought it would be awesome to be able to tap into a proper Tree of Life API. One thing I did realize is that [...]