superluminous velocity

In keeping with my present directive to whore my art out to the internet, I have created a facebook page dedicated to it.Etsy lookout.   Anyone interested in prints?

    Currently under development by myself and Dima Britvan,Zeugen is an internal Facebook application that utilizes the power of user-generated content to form a meta-tagged directory unrivaled in its precision and searchability.Folksonomy is the practice of collaboratively defining a body of data by allowing a community to tag the data with user-defined meta-data strings commonly known as tags (and thusly the common name of folksonomy is tagging). The idea behind folksonomy is that by harnessing the power of a massive user base, a massive (possibly user-created) and otherwise un-categorizable body of data can become labeled with a rich tapestry of meta-data. This meta-data allows other users to manipulate and search the body of data more and more easily as the body of meta-data tags increases. Essentially, more data emerges from normal user-data interaction creating new relationships between data that may not be easily seen as related by a computer algorithm.
The Zeugen application is an extends the concept of folksonomy by utilizing more complex tags than are usually dealt with. A normal tag consists only of a single string, whereas a Zeugen tag consists of 3 strings and a number. The first string is the main tag, the second and third strings describe the bottom and top of a scale on which the main tag can be measured, and the number (0-10 inclusive) represents the value of the main tag as associated with a particular user. Essentially, Zeugen allows Facebook users to navigate to another Facebook user’s Zeugen profile and tag them with a combination of information that is best summed up as a rating. Users can rate other users on any specification they see fit. An example of such a rating might be “Programming skills” (main tag) on a scale from “Poor” (minimum tag) to “Good” (maximum tag) where the value is 6.
To truly tap into the power of the user-base, Zeugen will also allow any user who is friends with or in the same network as any other user, access to their Zeugen profile, from now on these users will be referred to as “accessible” users. Accessible users have access to perform any of the following actions: view ratings, add their opinion to ratings, and search ratings. The act of adding one’s opinion to a rating is much like voting; it is the modification of a rating value by averaging in a new user opinion, thus forming a public opinion that should be self-regulating.
The system is currently in beta, and is thusly not quite “addable” in the Facebook system, but can be accessed directly here: http://apps.facebook.com/zeugentest .

Another little widget I constructed. This one is a visualizer for gains and losses. That is to say that it is a type of bar chart generator, optimized for what is essentially stock viewing, or similar.

Click here to view ‘Gain/Loss Grapher Experiment’ in fullscreen.

Here’s a nice project I put a lot of work and time into over the past year.  Titled “Pocket Virtual Worlds”, it’s the next logical step in the concept of Panorama Virtual Reality.   The project essentially consists of a grid of panoramas that are then stitched together to create a true navigable space. The tricky part of constructing such a grid is the actual photography.  We needed a sliding “inchworm” rig for the camera so that we could accurately move it orthogonally (forward, backward, left, right)  exactly one foot.

Check out the

• Project Page
• Demo Here

The demo listed above cites the sample data (grid of photos) we created for the centennial anniversary of the Mather Dance Studio.  For the presentation, dancers were synchronized with preplanned paths through the sample space, creating a real dance in a virtual space.  I was also called upon to create a suite of desktop software for the creation and development of the dance paths, and the display on 3 displays simultaneously (left, front, center).  That portion of the project was created in c#.

Here is a little widget that I cooked up while working for Hedgestreet. It was designed to simultaneously help users learn the concepts of ‘Hedgelets’ while simultaneously being extremely simple and easy to use. Of course, all of the data values (including color values for various panels and text) is fed in dynamically.

Click here to view ‘Hedgelet Slider’

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Just a little Drag Slide Fade experiment i whipped up. Mostly an artistic composition, but man is it fun to play with with my tablet’s stylus.

Click Here to view ‘Circles Experiment’

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Here’s a small experiment I did a few years ago in flash. It’s a working white board.

• Tip: The wipe button clears the color selection too.

Click here to view ‘Whiteboard Experiment’

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