Author Archives: NickHardeman

Repulsion – Live Wallpaper for Android

My first Android application is a Live Wallpaper with varying amounts of circles bouncing and repelling from each other. The circles respond to the accelerometer of the phone and the touch of the user. The settings allow the user to change the color scheme, the size of the circles, the number of circles and the [...]

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social sqncr

I have not posted in a while, but that is because my partner, Bruce Drummond, and I have been working on our MFA Design + Technology thesis called social sqncr. It is an audio visual installation that allows users to create virtual musical creatures through body movement that act as sequencers. More information, including photos, [...]

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Parsons Exploratory Navigation

Recently Parsons has launched a much needed improved site. I worked on a Flash application of the site which serves as an exploratory navigation for potential students to discover programs they may be interested in based on floating keywords. The design was done by Dexter Miranda and supervised by Isa Gouverneur, both part of the [...]

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TweetCatcha

Tweetcatcha uses the New York Times Timeswire API to load the latest news for the last 24 hours. We use the title and the url of the articles on nytimes.com to search through Twitter. There is a lot of data, so please be patient with the load time. Searching through Twitter for url was made [...]

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Export / Import Large Database from MAMP using Terminal

MAMP is a great tool for running servers locally, however, when you must export that site you have been developing locally and your database is huge, then you could have some problems with PHPMyAdmin.
One solution is to use terminal. The reason that I am writing this post is so that I can reference it in [...]

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BackTweets API AS3 Class

For a current project collaborator Bruce Drummond and I needed to search Twitter for urls. We attempted to parse the bit.ly truncated urls by expanding them, but that proved inefficient. Since each user truncates urls differently, we could not simply truncate the url and then search for that bit.ly. We also contacted bit.ly to determine [...]

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ofxTweenzor for OpenFrameworks

ofxTweenzor is a addon for OpenFrameworks that allows for tweening values over time. I began developing the addon because I started using OF on the iPhone and I wanted a little transition here and there. I started programming and someone mentioned ofxTween. I checked it out and turns out that it runs on poco events [...]

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New York Times Newswire API Quick Demo

For my data visualization class, we were asked to visualize the New York Times Newswire API. This is a quick demo mapping the hour of the day to the number of ny times posts for each category. You can select single categories by clicking on the buttons and you can click and drag horizontally to [...]

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Mo Money Mo Problems

These images are generated by evaluating and interpreting the 1997 music video “Mo Money Mo Problems” from the first disc of the Notorious B.I.G. album, Life After Death. The algorithm detects edges in the image and attempts to trace motion from frame to frame, using the initial frame as their starting point. The output is [...]

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Animating with Vector3D Class

Move your mouse over the word to see the effect.
I have been getting back into OpenFrameworks lately and I have been using the OF vector library for all of the recent animations that I have been doing. I thought that I should give the AS3 Vector3D library a go. There are some limited, but useful [...]

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