Nick Hardeman

Poco with SSL for OpenFrameworks 0073

NickHardeman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:34:34 +0000

OpenFrameworks does not ship with SSL support on OSX. I compiled the OpenSSL lib dependency and included an example 0073 Xcode project. This allows you to load https features of APIs like twitter and instagram user data.

OF_0073_POCO_SSL

Driving Simulator

NickHardeman — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:42:04 +0000

I was finally able to post about a driving simulator I created using Unity3D that is driven by a steering wheel and controlled by an iPad.
It is part of a much larger installation.

Concept Execution

NickHardeman — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:16:22 +0000

I’ve had this idea in my head for a long time and I finally acted on it. I drew this with watercolor and ball point pen and finished it with a touch of code. I wrote software to create the triangles behind the mouse, then printed it out onto a sheet of paper and then traced the triangles onto the original watercolor drawing.

Output from OF application used to trace the triangles onto the original drawing.

ofPrimitives

NickHardeman — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:31:43 +0000

New primitives that extend ofNode. ofPlane, ofSphere, ofIcoSphere, ofIcosahedron, ofCylinder, ofCone and ofBox.

Source Code: https://github.com/NickHardeman/openFrameworks/tree/feature-3dGraphics

Calculate face normals to get a different lighting effect. Smooth normals is also a convenience function.

Changing texture coords is easy, even after the primitive is created. Planes and meshes have the option to resize to the texture and do appropriate mapping for arb and non-arb textures. So repeat textures is easy to create.

Easily map live videos.

Manipulate the meshes by accessing the mesh faces individually. The texture coords will stay put. You can also access sides or parts of the mesh with functions like box.getSide( ofBox::FRONT );

Calculate the normals based on the triangles (ofMeshFace) if you move the faces around in 3d space.

OpenFrameworks Circle Packed T – Shirt

NickHardeman — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:49:19 +0000

A while ago I wrote some circle packing code to pack as many circles into a image based on colors. I had some free time and I didn’t want to stare at the computer anymore so I ran the software on the OF logo and made this design.
OF 007 XCode project available on github: https://github.com/NickHardeman/CirclePacker
In the 600 x 600px image there are 201 circles and the software took 7.35 minutes to complete. Could use some optimization, but it worked as well as I needed it to.

I printed the pdf on my crappy printer, taped the 4 pieces of paper together to make a larger logo and then painstakingly cut out all of the circles with an xacto knife.

I liked the imperfections that would be inevitable due to the uneven paper and human error while spray painting the stencil onto a shirt. I really like the inconsistant components; the spray paint, the cut outs and the uneven stencil visualizing computer generated conciseness.

Now the shirt is available for purchase on spreadshirt, with some of the proceeds going to OF! woohoo. It comes in many different sizes and colors. Get one now.

Watercolor + Ball Point Pen Drawings

NickHardeman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:09:27 +0000

When I was off for Thanksgiving break, I could not look at the screen anymore. So I decided to do some drawings. I already gave two of them away without taking proper pictures. But I still have one that I was able to scan.

I was able to scan this one.

Lil Wayne Bobble Head App

NickHardeman — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:23:03 +0000

I had some down time and thought I would make this lil wayne bobble head app for fun. Ultimately I would like to get it on the iPad, but for now it is a desktop app.

All of the interaction is handled with Unity3D

I modeled everything in Blender, except these buildings I got from TurboSquid

Below are some renders from the app

Audio Reactive Kinect Visuals

NickHardeman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:55:15 +0000

I created these sketches for the Tribeca Film Festival Interactive Day. Unfortunately I didn’t get too much documentation at the actual event. But there are a few photos below and a video of me interacting with the app. The compression kills the quality of this video, please watch in HD if you can.

Photos from the event

Renders

Paik Times Five

NickHardeman — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:49:54 +0000

I provided some additional software dev help for the Paik Times Five project by Flightphase.
Creative Director: Karolina Sobecka
Technical direction and lead software development: Jeff Crouse
Additional software development: me

Karolina wrote a thorough description of the project here.

Follow This! in Computer Arts

NickHardeman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:01:45 +0000

The July 2012 edition of Computer Arts magazine included an article titled “Hand Signals” about kinect hacking. We are excited that it featured Follow This! among other great kinect projects.