My Processing Monster is up on Lukas Vojir’s collection of Monsters built using Processing.
pixelpusher's monster
For all you Americans out there. Here is a Processing sketch of some bouncy turkeys for you to play with. Happy Turkey Day!
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This is my suped-up version of the old flight404 and toxi Processing sketch - it uses Perlin noise to create a moving field of very organic-looking daggers. toxi used it for hairs, and now I made an intricate version that uses 3D daggers drawn using OpenGL.
Noise Spears - PixelPusher (after toxi and flight404)
Read on for more plus source code
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I spent a bit of time trying to get lightbox working in Wordpress with the new, built-in image gallery shorcode that is part of wordpress.
First, get Lightbox2 from its plug-in page. Download it, unarchive it, and put the lightbox-2 folder into the plugins folder in your Wordpress installation, and use the Wordpress control panel to activate it, as per the instructions.
I had issues with thumbnails not being auto-generated - there are many solutions in this thread on the Wordpress site, but after making sure that all of my images were standard 24-bit PNG it seemed to work very well.
Then, get my slightly-modified media.php file - what I did was to add the lightbox code to the default photo gallery shortcode function. Rename the file to “media.php” and put it in your wp-includes folder in your wordpress installation. You’ll probably want to keep your old media.php file before you do this - just rename the original one media.php.bak.
For the WP hackers out there, what I did was to simply cut the wp_get_attachment_link function from the file wp-includes/post-template.php and add it to media.php in place of the original function call. then I modified that code to add the lightbox ref=”GALLERY_NAME” property to every image attachment link returned.
Once that is finished, you can upload images via the regular “add media” tool in the editor and display them via the gallery shortcode, and viola! They will be automatically open in a lightbox-enabled slide show.
UPDATE (for WP 2.6.5):
This no longer works, because they’ve changed media.php. The new fix is to edit your wp-includes/media.php file so that starting from line 109 is the following:
//$link = wp_get_attachment_link($id, $size, true);
$pt = str_replace(" ", "_", $pt);
$thumb = wp_get_attachment_image($id,
$size='thumbnail', $icon = false);
$link= "<a href='". wp_get_attachment_url($id) .
"' title='$post_title' rel='lightbox[$pt]'>$thumb</a>";
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This is my suped-up version of the old flight404 and toxi Processing sketch - it uses Perlin noise to create a moving field of very organic-looking daggers. toxi used it for hairs, and now I made an intricate version that uses 3D daggers drawn using OpenGL.
Noise Spears - PixelPusher (after toxi and flight404)
Read on for more plus source code
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Thanks to all who packed in The Flea Pit to hear and see the last Immersion night. Alias had his Immersion pixelist debut during Dr. No’s and Straight’s rather laid-back sets. I rolled out my new Jellotail live drawing software during Michael Santos’s richly textured tones and got so immersed in the performance that I forgot to change visuals. Special gues VJ and VJ Loops impresario Kyle Lyons was in from Spain to provide some visual cover to the machine gun synths of Jamka, while Dr. Mo accompanied the very danceable beats of Manchester’s MOQ. Somehow, though, it was slub who brought the house down at the end with their autonomous-robot-drum-machine-livecoding-textual-based-computer-sound-madness culminating in crashing (or at least shutting down in a not-so-safe manner) all their laptops at the apex of their sonic madness.
Thanks to all who came, and those who performed! Definitely one of my favorite Immersion nights.
