http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea Thoughts and rants by Arthur Clemens en-us Copyright 2010 by contributing authors Wiki Administrator [arthur@visiblearea.com] The contributing authors of things visible - things imaginable things visible - things imaginable http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea http://visiblearea.com/blog/pub/System/ProjectLogos/foswiki-logo.png http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/VisDoc_is_now_an_open_source_project Some time ago I decided to rewrite VisDoc from the ground up. VisDoc had started as a personal itch, and over time had grown uncomfortably large, with all text parsing done in Cocoa, and without any unit tests. A recipe for disaster, and something that was taking longer and longer to fix with every incoming bug report (of which I did not get too many, luckily). I decided to do the new VisDoc in Perl, a language I have learned to love when working on Foswiki. Text parsing comes naturally with Perl, and it is very easy to create unit tests for every bit. On Mac, the Cocoa app calls the command line VisDoc. Users will never know there is Perl running on the background. And hopefully someone with Windows experience will pick this up to create a Windows app. Or a Linux app. Because in true Perl spirit VisDoc can be used and extended by anyone, using the liberal MIT license. Meaning you can even create commercial applications with it. Get the code at http://code.google.com/p/visdoc/ I need to ... 2010-01-14T21:07:10Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/A_new_icon_for_VisDoc I want to give you a taste of the new version of VisDoc by showing the new icon: 2009-11-28T20:09:56Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/About About me, Arthur Clemens I live in Rotterdam with my wife Karin Arink and 2 children: Miha and Jin who love mice and Ninjutsu earn my money at Lost Boys in Amsterdam as User Experience Strategist (Malmberg, Anne Frank Foundation, Vodafone Germany) work on Foswiki the successor of TWiki work on ASAP Library: an ActionScript 3 library of practical, reusable, pattern based solutions for common challenges in Flash applications created VisDoc Code documentation generator for Flash ActionScript 2.0, ActionScript 3.0 and Java created sloveens.org the online Slovene Dutch dictionary created SoundField programmed Bump! (C and OpenGL) for my wife Karin programmed http://www.inn site.com/ studied at Rijksakademie and the Willem de Kooning Academy View my LinkedIn profile 2009-11-18T21:08:46Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Stellar 2009-10-28T23:18:37Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/HDZ_website Screencast of the website of HDZ architects, http://hdz.nl, that was online from 2003 to 2008. I created the Flash website after my early prototype in Director that dates back to 1999. The central idea behind the site is to enforce user engagement by hiding most of the photos and drawings the user has to choose and drag pictures to 'fill in the blanks'. Because the photos will be overlapping each other or will be cut off, the complete picture is never on the screen and needs to be completed in the user's mind. So it goes against the grain by not giving the user everything at once. 2009-10-28T23:17:05Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/WhizzDoc Excerpts from an educational software project by Arie Noordzij. I created the visual language and motion graphics to go along the spoken story. My challenge was to make abstract terms (like "assigning keywords to a catalogue description") easier to understand through a consistent visual vocabulary. Most parts I show here are from the history of information management, that was created as introduction to the contemporary instruction course. 2009-10-28T23:13:42Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Marcel_Christ_website Screencast of the portfolio website for Marcel Christ, http://marcelchrist.com Visual design by Ingeborg Bloem. Interactive design and ActionScript programming by me. Created with ASAP Framework. 2009-10-28T23:11:52Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Inn_Site Screencast of the website for Inn Amsterdam: http://www.inn site.com/ Inn is an international agency for Dutch photographers Marcel Christ and Morad Bouchakour (who has also created the new photography style for HEMA). Visual design by Esther Noyons. Interactive design and ActionScript programming by me. Created with ASAP Framework. Content Management System created with TWiki. 2009-10-28T23:11:18Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/BlogCategory Interesting VisDoc Cinema Processing ActionScript Interface Art Cocoa Business Online strategy Slovene Mac Work Interactive design Motion design "}% 2009-10-28T23:10:44Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Older_Work_Rijksakademie_2000 The interface I created with Dessislava Karoushkova (concepting) for the Open Ateliers of the Rijksakademie Amsterdam where we did our final year (2000). Created with Macromedia Director. Some notes on the design: Every artist (participant) had one virtual room to show his or her work. They could choose which sides (of 6 ) to use. The images of the work made up the walls. Video works were possible. To show videos in 3d I created 10 second animated GIFs from the movies to show on the walls. On clicking the zoomed image would change into a QuickTime movie. The QT movies was often smaller than the animated GIF! (ahem) The entrance to each studio was through a name cloud. The cloud had 4 appearances: dense cloud, dispersed cloud, alphabetical vertical list and scrolling horizontal list. A mouse rollover on a name would evoke a piano sound. I created more liveliness by randomly changing the loudness of each note. I built a content management system to manage participant ... 2009-10-28T22:57:17Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Area_Sequence 2009-10-28T22:54:07Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Footage_Material 2009-10-28T22:53:05Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Wolfsbergen This week I went to see Wolfsbergen, written and directed by Nanouk Leopold. A beautiful film rich in structure and full of interwoven contrasts using the ordinary to cover major themes of life. I won't repeat the plot here as it has been told elsewhere. Also because this is a movie, and the story is just a small part of the whole experience. Wolfsbergen is markedly visual, using all available means of cinema to bring the concepts across. I think Nanouk has done a magnificent job. The film is just extraordinary. Bias note: I know Nanouk from my former life as an artist. We even went to the same art class, but our work was very different then. And halfway the nineties I went into multimedia and she went to make films. Somehow Nanouk's films strike me as familiar, quite strongly. As a part of me, really. Today I got confirmed. In a video interview Nanouk tells us she uses space as a means to express the movie characters. The way I read this, the surrounding space is in fact an intrinsic ... 2009-10-28T22:49:11Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Dropping_Airport_connection_with_Snow_Leopard_solved Ever since I upgraded my nop MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard I experienced problems with dropping Airport connection to the annoyance of my fellow Foswiki developers on IRC, who saw me leaving and joining every 5 minutes. Today after reading a couple of forum posts (none with a definitive answer) I tried some Network setting changes. This is the one that solved it for me: changing Using DHCP to Using DHCP with manual address . I copied the IP address that was generated automatically and entered that into the IPv4 field. I probably have to change this setting when I am on the road again. 2009-10-02T20:21:41Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Sloveens_org_a_Slovene-Dutch_dictionary Once upon a time I started a Slovene Dutch dictionary. It was the time of multimedia, when there was a real difference between Applications and the Web. The Web was minimal and slow, applications rich and fast. So "Slovar" was born as paid application on cd rom. Its main strength was the type ahead with just a few keystrokes you could find your word, plus the immedate surrounding words in the list. Overall it was built for retrieval speed. While I could have updated the interface, the project has been laying dormant, awaiting better times. I think this summer was a good time. During my holiday evenings in Slovenia I have resurrected my old database, migrated it to MySQL, and created a web interface with Foswiki, the open web platform. My first goal was to make the dictionary accessible again, and free this time. Next goals are to improve lookup speed and to introduce user interactivity. Although I haven't decided on a model yet, I think the German English dictionary at http://dict.cc ... 2009-08-30T21:12:08Z ArthurClemens http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/Processing_and_ChucK Update 15 September 2007: I have fixed the code so it will now run on Windows too see also Processing and ChucK 'Hello World' demo A couple of weeks ago my colleague Barth mentioned Processing to me. I knew the works of John Maeda and Ben Fry from a number of years back, but I found it too small, too closed at that time. Now I was surprised by the growth of the platform and the community. I decided to give Processing a try during my holidays. More about that work later... Linked on the Processing site I found ChucK, a new audio programming language. I see a lot of possibilities to create audio by visual means. I have created a demo application to let Processing and Chuck talk to each other through OSC. The demo loads 4 audio files. Volume and panning values are controlled by Processing and sent to ChucK. ChucK analyses the sound spectrum and sends back analysis data. This is a non interactive sketch, but interactivity would be trivial to add. PS: if this demo looks a bit similar to SoundField ... 2009-05-06T18:55:18Z ArthurClemens