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on creative engineering and new media art

Volumatrix

December 29th, 2007

Volumatrix (still)

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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Pentamorph

December 29th, 2007

Pentamorph screenshot

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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Exquisite Corpse for Excel

December 29th, 2007

Exquisite Corpse for Excel (screenshot)

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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A beating heart

December 19th, 2007

Gryphons

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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Je ne spam pas

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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How to tunnel your SMTP outgoing mail over SSH

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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How to start a Java application with web start

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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How to get started using mobile processing

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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How to set up a Java JDK

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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How to run java MIDP applications on a Palm handheld

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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