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  • Beautiful Algorithms: Design from Nature and Mathematics

    Beautiful Algorithms: Design from Nature and Mathematics


    Video sponsored by www.Aquent.com

    Filmed at the Sold out FITC Toronto 2009 design & technology festival
    More info at www.FITC.ca

    What is the deeper mathematical basis of our natural world? Throughout nature and technology – and places where they overlap – there are algorithmic systems that generate beauty. They appear in countless and surprising places: music, art, seashells, flowers, chemical reactions, and mathematics itself. They appear accidentally and intentionally in the arts and artifacts, from the beginning of human creativity. This presentation will be a survey of the designs & animations created by these systems, and a discussion of the code used in their creation.
    Pressenter: Alec Cove
    Alec Cove is a New York City based Software Engineer and Artist. His areas of research include data visualization, artificial life, and physically based modeling. He is the author of the physics engines APE and Flade, the both of which were technical merit finalists at Flash Forward. His web development skills and interest span most platforms, frameworks, and languages, and in particular j2ee, .Net, PHP, Flash, Flex, and ActionScript. He is the co-author of ‘Professional PHP5’ from Wrox Press.

  • Hawkwell Beck, Stamfordham – Well House, Unit 1

    Hawkwell Beck, Stamfordham – Well House, Unit 1


    Nestling in the idyllic Northumbrian countryside, yet only seven miles from Corbridge and eight miles from Ponteland, is the charming hamlet of Hawkwell, near Stamfordham, on the door step of the Tyne Valley. This tranquil setting is the location for Hawkwell Beck, an exclusive development of two luxury distinctive stone country residences and the latest bespoke development to be completed by Stone Homes

    stonehomes.co.uk/index.php/locations/hawkwell-beck-stamfordham

  • Newsomatic – the difference between ‘Latest News to Posts’ and ‘Custom News to Posts’ menus

    Newsomatic – the difference between ‘Latest News to Posts’ and ‘Custom News to Posts’ menus

    In this video I will clear up the difference between the ‘Latest News to Posts’ and ‘Custom News to Posts’ menus from the Newsomatic plugin.

    Check it here: https://1.envato.market/newsomatic

    ▶Portfolio – https://1.envato.market/coderevolution
    ▶DONT CLICK THIS – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLIksvzyk-D_oEdHab2Lgg?sub_confirmation=1

  • Kebab Project 1.5.x Overview

    Kebab Project 1.5.x Overview


    Kebab is a rapid, flexible and open source PHP web development environment that offers a combination of popular web technologies.

    What is Kebab Project ?
    Kebab is web operation system. (web OS)

    Some Features
    Open Source, Enterprise, Agile, Easy, Fast, User & Developer Friendly, Operation System Style Interface & Web Desktop

    Some Applications – Services & Technicial Specs
    User Authentication, Sign-up & Profile Services User & Role Management
    Story, Permission & Service Management, Kebab Application (ExtJS MVC Structure) Assets Management, Application Departments, Simple Feedback Service & Feedback Management, RESTfull Standarts, Modular Structure & H-MVC

    Included Framework & Tecnologies
    Zend Framework, Doctrine ORM, Ext JS – Javascript Framework, 960 Grid System

  • Andrew Betts – Offline rules: Bleeding edge web standards at the Financial Times – BDConf, April 2013

    Andrew Betts – Offline rules: Bleeding edge web standards at the Financial Times – BDConf, April 2013


    Register Now for BD Conf at www.bdconf.com

    Andrew is a PHP and JavaScript developer and director of the Financial Times’ Labs division, which works on experimental web technologies and produces products such as the FT web app. Prior to FT Labs, Andrew founded the web consulting firm Assanka, which spent 8 years working on innovative web projects for clients including News International, The Economist Group and the FT, before being acquired by the FT in January 2012.

    Twitter Handle: @triblondon

    Presented by Andrew Betts at the April 2013 Breaking Development Conference in Orlando, Florida.

    www.bdconf.com

    @bdconf

  • Blender Aligorith Physics (Spherical Gravity)

    Blender Aligorith Physics (Spherical Gravity)


    Here is another variation of the spherical gravity concept. Once again rendered in Blender. This scene uses the special physics system written by coder, Aligorith. This system offers Blender users some of the features found in Cinema4D MoDynamics.

    The “saturn balls” are not particles, instead they are rigid body physics participants. The two larger spheres each contain an Empty which has a force field applied to it. The force field strength is modulated by an f-curve modifier. Both spheres have the same modifier, except one sphere is set to SIN wave generation and the other sphere is set to COS wave generation. This phase differential in strengths creates a beat pattern and causes the saturn balls to move back and forth between the spheres. There is also a larger invisible sphere around the whole setup. This larger invisible sphere is also a physics participant. If any of the smaller saturn balls escape the oscillating force fields they encounter the invisible ball which has it’s surface set to a “rubber” setting which causes the escapee to bounce back into the range of the oscillating fields.

    Here is a link to the development thread, which contains BLEND files and a link to Aligorith’s special build of Blender which rendered this video:
    http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204412

  • Adaptive Lights – Mental Models

    Adaptive Lights – Mental Models


    A video concept describing a design process for intelligent system development using mental models. In the video, the process is applied to the context of a home environment with adaptive lighting. The video demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of an intelligent lighting system, where the level of “intelligence” increases each stage, until it no longer makes logical sense.

    The process was designed with my team: Aylin Groenewoud, Julie Hornix, Janne van Kollenburg, Rhys Duindam.

    Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy Eind­hoven (TU/e) – In­dus­trial De­sign – BSc

    [Link to portfolio: http://www.nupky.com/portfolio/2011_AdaptiveLight.php]

  • Floating Points – Silhouettes

    Floating Points – Silhouettes


    An oscillating stream of light attempts to intrude on an arid natural landscape, abstract light and a living environment merge, reacting to the dynamics of the music.
    The luminous abstract forms are produced by a light-painting machine that, frame by frame, draws in a real environment the 3D animated figures.
    This is an experimental video created by Pablo Barquín, Junior Martínez, Nathan Grimes and Anna Diaz Ortuño.

    Directors:
    Pablo Barquín hamillindustries.com
    Junior Martínez trunk.me.uk/index.php/category/directors/junior/

    Creative Team:
    Pablo Barquín
    Anna Diaz Ortuño
    Nathan Grimes
    Junior Martínez

    Executive Producers:
    H.I. (Hamill Industries) & Floating Points
    Lead Producer:
    Anna Diaz Ortuño

    Director of Photography:
    Nathan Grimes
    Research & Technical Development:
    Pablo Barquín, H.I.

    H.I. Technical Assistant:
    Joan Recasens

    Editor:
    Anna Diaz Ortuño
    Lead Animators:
    Fernando Domínguez
    Wyz Borrero

    Animators:
    Ohmyhood
    Luis “Inkclear” Redondo
    Concept Artists:
    Junior Martínez
    Michele Angelo

    Plants Set Decorators:
    Estudio Sauvage

    Post-production Team:
    Agus Verrastro
    Florent Bastide

    Production Assistants:
    Aida Busquets
    Lidia Arruego
    Digital Intermediate provided by RCO

    RCO Colorist:
    Seth Ricart

    RCO Producer:
    Marcus Lansdell

    Special thanks to:
    Fundación Rio Tinto, Ivan Rodriguez, 380 Monta Llum i Roda, Rab and Tanya Gordon, Chabeli Rodriguez, Marga Sardà, Alba Barneda, DVEIN, Agus Verrastro, Pamplona89, RCO, Laura Martinova, Pablo Hugo, Melissa, Saúl Narbona, Irina, Javo, Elsa Tejera, Jacinto Barquín, Marc Luelmo, Tinta, Cynthia, Sarah, Mita, Eric and specially to Sam for believing in this project since the very beginning.
    Shot in Río Tinto, Huelva & Hamill Industries Headquarters
    Barcelona, 2015
    (c) 2015 Pluto

  • Judi Abdulla, Fresh Start

    Judi Abdulla, Fresh Start


    Judi Abdulla shares her story of faith, and how it led to the development of the Fresh Start Program. Fresh Start Courses are offered on Wednesdays at 6:30pm at Washington Heights Church. For more info, click here: http://www.theheightscommunity.org/resources/fresh_start.php