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This is a quick experiment made with vvvv.

Just spinning spheres and moving textures.

Before working with web and interactive development, I was very involved in type design. Most of my typefaces are currently distributed through MyFonts.

I haven’t released any typefaces since 2006 but I still draw letters all the time — I always like to have a piece of paper and a pen or pencil at hand. Today I scanned and uploaded some sketches to my Flickr account.

P.S.: Just finished doing some blog maintenance:

• deleted “Playground” category
• created Processing and OpenFrameworks categories
• deleted trackback spam
• added links to my Blip.fm, FriendFeed and Twitter profiles
• added Facebook blog network widget.

Finally managed to experiment with Context Free, a software that uses context-free grammar to generate images. Substitution rules define a grammar — it’s very simple but also very powerful; appropriate to explore the concepts of recursion and randomness.

More Context-Free images at Flickr

Caffeine Viewer is a proof-of-concept experiment we made at colmeia connecting our coffee machine to the internet using Arduino and Processing.

Using our office’s coffee consumption data (available through a public API), we made a few data visualizations — mine was made with Canvas and Javascript (with a little help from my favourite JS framework, Mootools).

One of the coolest things about Canvas is its ability to draw cubic bezier curves (Actionscript can only draw quadratic curves natively). To convert the logo outline from Adobe Illustrator to a collection of points in Javascript code I used SVG as transport format.

Every 100 milliseconds the screen is updated — each point of the logo is displaced by a random amount of noise that is proportional to the amount of coffee consumed during the selected period of time. Check its source code.

Caffeine Viewer – Jitter

Following the Generator.x group on Flickr I came across Apophysis, an open-source fractal flame editor (there’s a dedicated Apophysis Flickr group too). It is so easy to create beautiful images with it — too easy, one might say. The following is my first Apophysis flame (adjusted brightness/contrast in Photoshop).