http://blog.kraftner.com ...loves Coded Beauty Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:14:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As already mentioned in my last basic Tutorial there are two ways of creating your own JustLineOn-Project. Now I want to explain the easier one that is targeted towards non-coders and should therefore be suitable for almost everybody. To understand the underlying concept of JustLineOn reading the previous Tutorial is ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/11/07/justlineon-tutorial-for-non-coders/ Okay I knew this was going to happen. Deadlines were tough for my thesis project and as soon as the whole thing was done I got lazy. That's why there is no documentation or tutorial for my thesis Project. And of course now everybody is confused about the use of ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/10/28/coded-beautyjustlineon-tutorial/ I just launched the website accompanying my diploma project. As the creation of this blog was initially caused by this diploma project I'm really pleased to announce it here. The thesis is written in German (except for the Abstract). Therefore I will publish some major topics, concepts and findings in English ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/10/27/coded-beauty-diploma-project-online/ While collecting the slides for all the amazing stuff I've seen at FOTB I thought it might be useful for some other people as well to have one place where you can easily find them all. Unfortunately only a small part of the speakers have put their slides online. Anyway ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/10/10/flash-on-the-beach-slide-collection/ Wow, what a week. As it was my first Flash on the Beach and as well my first (Flash) conference at all I have to say that I'm really amazed of all the fun, inspiration, learning and beer drinking that has been going on in wonderful Brighton. It's hard to ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/10/06/flash-on-the-beach-and-the-jonathan-harris-affair/ While doing some general research on which technologies are good to use if you're doing generative artwork I stumbled upon ExtendScript. It is an extended implementation of JavaScript which can be used to control and automate the major Adobe Creative Suite Applications beeing Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Since CS3 Flash ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/07/07/extendscript-use-flash-in-photshop-illustrator-and-indesign/ Yesterday I was at a wonderful exhibition opening at the net.culture.space which is a branch of the well known Ars Electronica Center. The exhibition is called "Magic Moments" and aims to break the barriers between the real and the digital world. At beginning they were quoting Arthur C. Clarke which really ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/07/02/magic-moments-netculturespace/ The last days I've been working on a file which has turned out to be quite nice. The initial thought was to draw a set of connected lines randomly moving across the canvas with predefined angles. I constantly added new features like colors, collision detection, line thickness, random abortion of line drawing,... Just ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/05/14/firefly/ So still inspired by the same exhibition now this work started from Malewitsch's work Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying but as I continued to work on it it grew bigger and bigger... Click on the Stage - Just play a bit if you like. Or scroll down for a more detailed description ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/05/07/malewitsch/ Some days ago I was at an exhibition and when I looked at Mondrians Composition III I just had to do that. Click at the picture to draw a new one. [SWF]http://blog.kraftner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mondrian.swf,500,500[/SWF] Oh and I used the excellent seeded Random Class by Grant Skinner so the results are random but seeded which means ... http://blog.kraftner.com/2008/05/01/12/