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JUL 12: Waving Signs

I’ve been playing around with sinewaves a bit more. I now have a tool where I can create different images & save them by hitting a spacebar. download: mac windows linux An animated Gif:           A … Continue reading

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06.07 3D Effect / Bevel Emboss

Thanks to Sonja van Vuure, I was acquainted with the “Bevel/Emboss” effect in Illustrator, and it makes me happy.   I know that this effect is kinda old school by now.. but it’s new to me!

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03.10 bombs revisited again

I made some updates to the Bombs – created a calendar view – made a list view that shows a listing of when the bombs went off, colored by month. including arcs to entries with the same business name – … Continue reading

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03.10 Debate/brainstorm/teaching tool for Levien

My friend Levien asked whether I could make him a tool that he could use to brainstorm with his students about themes.  He envisioned that in this tool you could add words and rearrange them on a screen to categorize … Continue reading

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03.07 bombs revisited

I’m playing around with a new Java library (Joda Time) I found that makes it a wholeloteasier to deal with dates. I was curious to know if bombs would be more likely on some days of the week. I was … Continue reading

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02.02 Dotje

I’ve been turning a little snake drawing test that I did two weeks ago into a full-on application. with: – a loading screen & starting animation – a menu where you can change the settings – a save / save … Continue reading

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23.01 Mapping Maffia Bombs in Chicago

When I lived in Chicago I found a book  by Gordon L. Hostetter and Thomas Quinn Beesley called “It’s a Racket” in the beautiful public library. The book from 1929 describes the practice of Racketeering – It’s a gorgous book with chapter … Continue reading

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15.01 Mapping the Collection pt 3: Interactive, and so much better

I’ve been mapping the Boijmans Museum’s City Collection (A collection of artworks made by artists from Rotterdam, The Netherlands). I had been stuck for a while with just counting artists, but after a good night’s sleep, I finally figured out … Continue reading

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14.01 Mapping the Collection part II

I’ve been making data visualisations of the Boijmans Museum’s city collection. I now managed to connect two data-sets (the object’s data, and those of the artists) to find: The ages artists are when they make their work (predominantly 25-45 years … Continue reading

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21.12 Make your own Mozart / Wurfespiele

Than told me about Mozart’s Musikalisches Wurfelspiel. Mozart came up with a dice game, where by throwing the dice 16 times, the player would select 16 different measures, that together make up a minuet. “For each measure, two six-sided dice … Continue reading

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