Older blog entries for pippin (starting at number 38)

QuadEntry in Clutter

QuadEntry is an input method for cursor keys or four-way pads based on interactive navigation of a quadtree.

For normal text entry you need three presses, for instance entering an 'a' is achieved by pressing the keys up, left, up. This would take you to the upper quadrant, then to the left quadrant of the upper quadrant and finally select the upper pad of that quadrant.

I originally came up with the concept for QuadEntry when I was playing experimenting with and exercising cairo back in 2004. I've resurrected the QuadEntry when I started digging into Clutter, which is one of the nifty projects coming out of OpenedHand, my new employer. Since being able to use the QuadEntry as a virtual keyboard for clutter depends on a more capable event handling and filtering system in Clutter I'll let the actual publishing of the sources wait until it builds without some hacky changes to Clutter itself.

At mobilecamp in Lodon I met the CEO of tikilabs which is a company based on a similar input method concept.

Syndicated 2007-10-01 11:17:06 from codecave.org

Sources of lost in time liberated

Moments lost in time, like tears in the rain. was first exhibited in november 2005 the collection of four interactive video installations was first exhibited at Galleri Barbara Hansen in Oslo. The exhibit consisted of four works, now by then, deja-vu, ghost mirror and recursive subdivision. Now by then was also shown at the shown SIGGRAPH art gallery in 2006.

When I pondered whether it would be possible to finance some of the equipment and materials needed for the original exhibition I also desired the code and underlying code logic to be reusable by myself and others in other projects. The result was a discount scheme based sales model, where licenses that I hope increase the chances of myself seeing new and interesting derivative work that I will both have the ability to study and elaborate on.

For an Digitale Spor an outdoor art track in Bergen January 2006 various digital art works were desired. I was contact about the possibility of having works from lost in time be part of the exhibition. The Media Centre at Bergen University College chose to option of paying to liberate the sources under GPL which had the largest discount of the full price (90% discount). You can now download the source and compile, play, experiment and perhaps tinker with the code creating new interesting things.

The installations are written using gggl as the graph based processing engine. At the moment GEGL does not perform well enough to drive the installations in real time, I do however at some point plan to port now by then to be a plug-in for GEGL that exercises and pushes the envelope for the caching infrastructure further.

Syndicated 2007-08-08 18:27:16 from codecave.org

buu and suspend

Earlier this week I did a fresh reinstall of Ubuntu Edgy Eft on my lenovo T60 to see if some suspend issues I had had with the dist-upgraded one would go away - those issues only did go away after pursuing information on ThinkWiki, that told me to set POST_VIDEO= in /etc/default/acpi-support (the real issue is in the ATI driver.).

Another intervention on top of the default install that I need is a way to use my mobile phone as a modem with my flatrate GPRS/3G subscription. Since NetWork manager doesn't support this yet, I made a small shell script buu which maintains my uplink when running in a terminal.

Syndicated 2007-06-24 20:22:58 from codecave.org

BubbleView

I've been experimenting with a data set visualization concept that acts like a visualisation of a bubble-sort. At the moment my plans and ideas for this thing far exceed the fragile proof of concept prototype I've got.

The simulation engine still needs a lot of performance and stability improvements, and then more interesting possibilities can be explored.

Based on my early experiments with this concepts it seems like it can evolve into useful interfaces for selecting items, exploring data sets with different sorting constraints applied. Interaction methods directed at making CBIR exploration of databases efficient as well as a combined filemanager/media viewer.

GIF screencapture.

Syndicated 2007-04-09 23:31:21 from codecave.org

Spring has arrived

The ice on Mjøsa has melted and spring is rapidly proceeding.

I'm starting to think that I should create a new and better gallery for my images, my recent adventures in the land of web 2.0 has left me with some ideas for how to create a minimalistic system that has only static content on the server which is processed on the client for slideshows, tag based searching and more.

Syndicated 2007-03-28 14:59:03 from codecave.org

DHTML Pong

Press image below to launch a — XHTML+CSS+js standards compliant, cross browser supported without hacks — implementation of clasiscal digital gamer tennis. Avoid moving your mouse at all after loading to have two "ai's" competing each other.

I've been brushing up my js-fu the last couple of weeks due to extra responsiblities at work that have distracted me from hacking on the usual projects. This has led to a pong game and a popup-index and tagcloud for the static content web 2.0 blog renderer at codecave.org.

Syndicated 2007-03-24 17:32:49 from codecave.org

Robotic Aquarell Vision

When experimenting with an approach to tonemapping I've stumbled across a nice artistic aquarell like rendering filter. This rabbit looks nice with a more basic variation

Syndicated 2007-03-01 00:03:11 from codecave.org

The State of GEGL

The presentation I did at FOSDEM this year is now available online. In multiple forms, a video (300mb OGG/Theora), a large image and a tarball containing the GEGL compatible XML file with included media assets and a ruby program for viewing it.

FOSDEM was a nice experience, the amount of participants increases every year and it is great fun to meet up with people I haven't talked to for a couple of years as well as met a bunch of new people doing amazing things using our free tools and infrastructure.

Syndicated 2007-02-26 13:03:01 from codecave.org

GEGL 0.0.12

A new GEGL release is out, grab GEGL 0.0.12 and babl 0.0.14 now.

Some highlights this release:

• GEGL has been succesfully built on win32
• Bindings for C#, Python and Ruby
• Some profiling induced performence enhancement

Read full announcement

Syndicated 2007-02-18 23:19:24 from codecave.org

FOSDEM Interview

I have the pleasure to present at FOSDEM this year. Part of doing a main-track presentation at FOSDEM is the speaker interview, the good people of FOSDEM performed it by email. Doing it by email gave me ample time to consider what I wanted to say, as well as getting help from other people involved with GEGL to correct my worst abuses of the english language. Read the interview.

Syndicated 2007-01-31 19:24:48 from codecave.org