December 29th, 2007

Interactive animation (2007)
Launch Volumatrix
Made at the Insteractive Institute Art & Technology Program.
This is a sketch I made for visualizing what it might look like to “explode” an image into three-dimensional space. A source image is sampled at low resolution and…
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Posted in labs | Tagged with animation, processing.org, sketch
December 29th, 2007

Launch Pentamorph
Animation made at the Interactive Institute (2007).
This is a quick sketch for a moving logo that I made at the request of Ingvar Sjöberg.
It’s a pentagon with an inscribed shape that moves from a point in the center to…
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Posted in labs | Tagged with animation, processing.org, sketch
December 29th, 2007

A cheap embarassing drink that hooks you up with senior dolls
Interactive creativity tool (2005).
Download Excuisite Corpse for Excel
The Exquisite Corpse for Excel is a creativity tool. It is a very crude random phrase generator. When you download it is loaded…
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Posted in downloads, labs | Tagged with creativity, exquisite corpse, fun
December 19th, 2007

A beating heart in a jar
Kinetic sculpture produced at the Interactive Institute for the exhibition Man Machine 2 at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. By artist Cristian Partos, Fredrik Bridell and Henrik Berggren.…
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Posted in projects | Tagged with art, heart, installation, man machine
December 17th, 2007
Last week I got loads of what looks like bounces for spam being sent with a sender address something@bridell.com. (Where something includes Largent-Coxwell, mosab.matza, porkwt, Ruquiyah_Hertel and other inventive aliases).
For anybody trying to track them down: I certainly did not send…
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Posted in ramblings | Tagged with rant, spam
December 14th, 2007
The problem
You’re this guy, or gal, somewhere where you have a crippled internet access. Probably for security reasons, somebody closed most of the outgoing ports in a firewall. You can surf, and use SSH.
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with smtp, ssh, tunnel
December 14th, 2007
These are some notes I made while trying to get a Java OpenAL (JOAL) application start from a web page. The tutorial applies to Java 1.4.2, but it probably works similarly in newer versions.
There are some things you need to…
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with dll, Java, joal, web start
December 12th, 2007
Processing is a free, open-source programming environment based on Java and the weapon of choice for most people doing artistic productions that require a bit of coding. Get it at processing.org
Mobile Processing is a cousin of Processing, but aimed at mobile phones…
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with how-to, mobile, processing.org
December 12th, 2007
This refers to doing it on Windows XP - Vista is probably very similar.
For starters…
Java is a programming language, but it’s also something called a virtual machine. The way it works is you write code - source code - in text…
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with Java
December 12th, 2007
The problem
I have a Java MIDP application, made with WTK, maybe using EclipseME or mobile processing. I want to run it on my Palm.
After digging into ways of doing this, I wound up running an application called jartoprc but it…
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Posted in tutorials | Tagged with Java, palm