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firehawk posted:This is Komposter, a small modular "virtual analog" synth and sequencer I've been working on. It's mainly geared towards generating music from really tiny executables like 4K and 64K demoscene intros but can just as well be used for generating analog-like sounds. The previous version was downright user-hostile, so I made this to enable actual musicians to compose tunes for our intros. cool stuff! I'm working in a similar vein, except I'm doing chiptuny sounds and all my synthesis is done in hardware either with old sound chips, or Microcontrollers I have programmed to make sound.
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It's interesting to see the different directions people are going in with the Kinect. I just finished up a small tech demo for a science and education outreach event last weekend that used a Kinect. Specifically, it is an application based on on OpenNI + NITE + OpenFrameworks that draws the user as a 2D robot and also allows them to control a robot arm.  IMG_8739 by Senior Kabong, on Flickr  IMG_8657 by Senior Kabong, on Flickr This is what the screen looked like live:  Untitled by Senior Kabong, on Flickr Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpV0Ll5Cbk I've got another video, code and a blog post about it up here: http://www.jiggywatts.com/technology/so-you-want-to-do-some-hacking-with-your-kinect%E2%80%A6/ Kabong fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Feb 11, 2011 |
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Kabong posted:It's interesting to see the different directions people are going in with the Kinect. This is pretty awesome.
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pokeyman posted:I got a new MacBook Air and thought I could find a better use for the eject key. If you don't have a USB DVD drive connected (and I never do), the eject key does exactly nothing and cannot be easily remapped. This is awesome, are you going to release it? I did try to google it but just got premature ejaculation websites xD
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Gism0 posted:This is awesome, are you going to release it? I did try to google it but just got premature ejaculation websites xD Haha sorry about that. I think I'll release it but there are a few bugs I've come across and haven't fixed yet. I'll post back when I do.
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Gism0 posted:This is awesome, are you going to release it? I did try to google it but just got premature ejaculation websites xD Bugs fixed! You can grab it at http://nolanw.ca/ejectulate/
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Everyone is working on interesting stuff  I just finished up the first incredibly buggy release of my Memcache Browser. Not a life-changing app, but is going to make my life much easier if i can get it working on linux @ work  
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As part of a job interview a few weeks back, I had to make some modifications to a fake blog created in Ruby on Rails. It was the first time I ever used Ruby, and afterwards I was interested to see if I could make something 'from scratch'-instead of just hacking away at something that was already made. So I started to write a little web forum. I have a long way to go, but it's a good start. My goals are to make the appearance very customizable with CSS and package it so that someone could easily install it on their current web hosting.
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For my graphics class: Click here for the full 1040x806 image. Lines are drawn manually; everything transformed and projected from 3D to 2D manually. And of course, the landscape generated manually using this algorithm. -------------- Edit, in reply to be below post: Well, manually in the sense that of having written the code to perform the transformation and projection myself, rather than using built-in OpenGL features. Not manually as in manually translating each point by hand. Sebbe fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Feb 27, 2011 |
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Feb 27, 2011 13:17
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Are you sure you mean "manually" ?
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YO MAMA HEAD posted:Are you sure you mean "manually" ? These frame rates are murder
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I work at a company that sells books to Libraries. Libraries use an awful and painful raw text format to store bibliography information called MARC21. They can export all of their library's books into that format and upload them to our website and we can match them up with what books we have available and offer recommendations to better flesh out their collections based on state standards. When books are purchased from us we provide these MARC records so they can import the books they bought right into their collection management software. Everyone expects different crap to be in their records, or wants parts of them removed. We currently use a COBOL script and every single customer has to be raw coded into the script. It's pretty awful but it's like 30 years old so it's understandable. My project? Make a template system so our customer service department can input changes that get made to these records, which will then run as a batch process each night.  Click here for the full 1680x1010 image. This is the template editor. It's very much tied into our company databases, but I have plans to make a version librarians can use to modify MARC records in a batch just like we can through our database. When I started there were no libraries for reading, writing, and modifying these records for C#, so I made my own based on one of the popular PHP libraries, which I then released as an open source project. MARC Records will be the death of me.
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I also plugged this in my Forth thread, but check out my Forth compiler written in PostScript: It renders the disassembled bytecode, program counter and data/return stacks as sort of a "flip book" of the execution trace. The source is extensively commented, so even if you don't know PostScript it might be a fun read.
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(yay I finally have something to post here) I spent a while after I graduated putting together a fridge magnet poetry type thing. Basically, it provides you with all the different parts of grammar, and you use them to produce instant Dada art. Now I just need to figure out why it should exist... The most interesting part was dealing with verb conjugation. After trying to do it programmatically (gently caress English  ), I just said gently caress it and screen scraped an ESL site.[edit] god dammit I thought I'd scaled that down. I'm sorry.
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Jick Magger posted:fridge magnet stuff I am guessing all the words given are random? You could always turn it into a game of sorts. Something like the final poem nets you a multiplier, and however many people like it results in points or something like that. Kinda like scrabble mixed with social media. Make it integrate with facebook, such that the multiplier is based on the amount of facebook likes, if you feel like messing with that hunk a junk for fun. /ideas
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Jick Magger posted:(yay I finally have something to post here) https://www.mutantdog.com Psychobabble/Farragomate/Pseudobabble has been around for a while in various clones and is a great game but has been plagued by poor implementation. The general idea is that you are in a room with 10 or so people. In each round, everyone is given a similar word list. The players make a sentence and then at the end of the round, the same people vote for the best sentence (you can't vote for your own). Each vote your sentence receives gets you 1 point. If you vote for the most popular sentence you get one point. You keep going until one person reaches something like 30 points. You could always make something similar to this. The current incarnation is very buggy so if you could do a better job that'd be great.
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 Gedcom-based genealogy app for MacOS X. Gedcom is a terrible format to work with, full of weird inconsistencies & exceptions to the rule, but it's the de facto standard so there's not much to do about that. It's starting to take decent shape, though there's still lots and lots of work to do. Core Data Model is maybe 70% done, interface is incredibly rudimentary. I started this project in December (well, I had a false start over a year ago). Over the last few weeks, I've gotten date+age parsing up & running, including sorting among the 7 different kinds of date classes. Today was spent shaving the load time of the file shown above from several minutes to about 8 seconds. It can likely be improved further, but I don't see anything obvious in my own code when profiling it with Shark - most of the action takes place in Core Data / ParseKit now. http://code.google.com/p/cocoa-gedcom/
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I spend far too much time tweaking my VIM colors, so I wrote this to make it easier. Need to tack on a back end for saving / loading, and it will be done.
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Lumpy posted:I spend far too much time tweaking my VIM colors, so I wrote this to make it easier. Need to tack on a back end for saving / loading, and it will be done. Ohh, this looks awesome and would come in very handy! I was just trying another colortheme, which always takes way too long for my taste. Is it browser/web based? If not, could you make it browser/web based for everyone to enjoy?
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Lumpy posted:I spend far too much time tweaking my VIM colors, so I wrote this to make it easier. Need to tack on a back end for saving / loading, and it will be done. That looks great. Man I wish someone would make something like it for emacs (I know someone is but it's kinda buggy and annoying to use). Love that you're using Zenburn (or at least that's what it looks like) fishbacon fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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Shugyousha posted:Ohh, this looks awesome and would come in very handy! I was just trying another colortheme, which always takes way too long for my taste. Is it browser/web based? If not, could you make it browser/web based for everyone to enjoy? Yes, it is browser based, and it will be up in a public place as soon as it is done. \/\/ cool, where is it up, I'd like to see how you did your UI Lumpy fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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I did something similar and was just using :toHTML to generate the output.
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Carthag posted:
I've heard some horror stories about the Gedcom interface and syntax so you have my sympathies there. One thing I've always been curious about with these kinds of projects though is, where does the data come from? Is there some open source genealogy database, or does everyone compile it on their own from scratch? Bizarrely genealogy seems to be the "killer app" for the old folks on the internet, but I'm surprised no one has run away with the entire audience yet. Maybe if you link in to facebook (AnceBook?); not only can you find your old schoolmates, you can find out your wife is your cousin!
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Internet Janitor posted:I also plugged this in my Forth thread, but check out my Forth compiler written in PostScript: This is completely awesome. I love seeing cool stuff with PS and I like seeing more Forth stuff. I sent this to my dad (a professional Forth programmer if you can believe it) and he thought it was pretty cool too. Good work.
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Samiamwork: Thanks!  PostScript is a surprisingly beautiful and expressive language, but I don't often encounter other people who know it. Do you think there would be enough general interest for a thread? Working on that project really sparked my imagination, and now I'm working on a more sophisticated version of the same visual debugger/disassembler idea in Java:  Screenshots don't do it very much justice, but the program counter and the stacks animate as the program executes. It's turning into sort of a debugging puzzle game- I'll plug it here again when I have something playable.
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Scaramouche posted:I've heard some horror stories about the Gedcom interface and syntax so you have my sympathies there. One thing I've always been curious about with these kinds of projects though is, where does the data come from? Is there some open source genealogy database, or does everyone compile it on their own from scratch? Bizarrely genealogy seems to be the "killer app" for the old folks on the internet, but I'm surprised no one has run away with the entire audience yet. Maybe if you link in to facebook (AnceBook?); not only can you find your old schoolmates, you can find out your wife is your cousin! Ideally, the data all comes from primary sources, so it literally is a bunch of pensioned greybeards sitting around in dusty archives with ancient laptops. Most just do it for themselves and their own families. Lately, various projects for organized source scanning/transcription have shown up, enabling people to look up stuff from home, but most is still unavailable online. Iceland has a national genealogical database that goes back to the dawn of time, covering every resident ever. I heard Norway is planning one. There's a whole slew of (paid and free) websites for linking up your own research with other peoples', but most seem to cater to the casual genealogist, and a lot of them carry a shitload of bad or plain wrong data. I've done my own research pretty much 100% online via scanned censuses & parish records, transcribed censuses and the occasional transcribed probate. This has enabled me to go back to the late 1600s/early 1700s on almost all branches (about 8 generations, some up to 11 generations), but I'm tired of the app I'm using, so this should hopefully end up with an app that at least I can be satisfied with. It's great for sperging about numbers too.
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This is baby's first android game: a find-the-anagrams game. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ifihada.anagramic     
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I have slowly been making improvements to my web-based irc client over the last year or so. In the last few months I've added oembed support, a wysiwyg editor, mobile stylesheets, and a nick list. I should really concentrate on just getting a payment system set up for the hosted version so it can sustain itself, but adding new features is more fun! I have more screenshots up here
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Frozen-Solid posted:Libraries use an awful and painful raw text format to store bibliography information called MARC21. Calling MARC "raw text" is inaccurate, and describing it as "awful and painful" fails to comprehend the fullness of the horror. MARC (including MARC21) is actually a binary format. The text-based version is MARC-XML, which I would nominate for "Worst XML Grammar of All Time" and "Biggest Failure To Understand The Point Of XML Ever". MARC, basically, is delimited into records, controlfields, datafields and subfields, all identified numerically, since it was developed in the mid-to-late 1960s when computing resources were still quite scarce. So when they bought into the XML silver bullet, did they make the data self-describing? Nope. Example MARC-XML record MARC was an amazing design when introduced, and Henriette Avram, the woman who designed it and drove its adoption, is one of computing's unsung heroes. But the Library of Congress's (and librarians in general's) aversion to change and risk led to a failure to complete Avram's plan of stardardizing and centralizing the actual cataloguing of library materials, and to the stagnation of the MARC standard for the next 35 years. (This also led, almost directly, to the rise of OCLC, the corporation who now does most actual cataloguing, and charges libraries for access to their data. They also own the Dewey Decimal system, and will sue the poo poo out of you if you use it anywhere money is involved without giving them a cut.) Long story short, you are correct. MARC will be the death of you. My advice is to get out now. mdxi fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Mar 9, 2011 |
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mdxi posted:Calling MARC "raw text" is inaccurate, and describing it as "awful and painful" fails to comprehend the fullness of the horror. MARC21 is raw-text too but at least MARC-XML is an XML format. I would LOVE to support MARCXML but NONE of our customers use it. MARC21 is basically an old school magic hex code delimited text file and "universally supported". At least as "universal" as the format itself and not necessarily the data that belongs in it. *twitch* I'm just posting this here so everyone can bask in the horrors that are parsing these files. code:
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Frozen-Solid posted:
This is pretty much exactly what I had to deal with for doing automated credit checks with Equifax. They call this their fixed-field delimited format. There are about 200 record types, and the header starts with telling you how many record entries there are, followed by a description of the actual count of each type of record. You have to parse the entire header, figure out the length of each record, what the count is of each record, and then use that to seek into the file to get the data you want. It's pretty terrible.
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avidal posted:This is pretty much exactly what I had to deal with for doing automated credit checks with Equifax. They call this their fixed-field delimited format. There are about 200 record types, and the header starts with telling you how many record entries there are, followed by a description of the actual count of each type of record. You have to parse the entire header, figure out the length of each record, what the count is of each record, and then use that to seek into the file to get the data you want. It's pretty terrible. That sounds like pretty much every file format ever.
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mdxi posted:The text-based version is MARC-XML, which I would nominate for "Worst XML Grammar of All Time" and "Biggest Failure To Understand The Point Of XML Ever". MARC, basically, is delimited into records, controlfields, datafields and subfields, all identified numerically, since it was developed in the mid-to-late 1960s when computing resources were still quite scarce. So when they bought into the XML silver bullet, did they make the data self-describing? Nope. Oh come on, it's even hierarchical! That's nowhere close to "worst" or "biggest failure".
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avidal posted:It's pretty terrible. How else would you like to do a packed archive?
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Zhentar: I'm totally digging the 'ind1' and 'ind2' attributes of 'datafield', which appear to be able to take on values of 1, 0 or a space.
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^^ Indicators are like... 0-9 and define what data is actually in the subfields. So a 260 tag with indicators of 1 and 0 means something different than a 260 tag with indicators of 2 and 0. You can also have blank indicators. It's dumb. Zhentar posted:Oh come on, it's even hierarchical! That's nowhere close to "worst" or "biggest failure". MARCXML is a failure because no one uses it. Everyone is stuck on MARC21. Frozen Peach fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 9, 2011 |
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Writing random poo poo using the Windows API in Java with JNA. No idea where I'm going with it, but it's fun. Maybe I'll clone Task Manager (without its elevated capabilities) or try to make a virtual desktop manager or something? Pictured is what happens when you enumerate every window, including invisible windows, and send ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) to each of them. It pretty much leaves the system unusable. (This specifically was somewhat inspired by this MSDN blog post)
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Lately I've been working on a retro vector shooter as a way to learn the Android dev environment, and also a way to pare down and finally finish a game for once. I just put v1 out on the Market, a great feeling for someone that doesn't usually finish personal projects.
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mdxi posted:...which I would nominate for "Worst XML Grammar of All Time" and "Biggest Failure To Understand The Point Of XML Ever". You obviously haven't had to deal with S1000D.
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Interrupt posted:Lately I've been working on a retro vector shooter as a way to learn the Android dev environment, and also a way to pare down and finally finish a game for once. I just put v1 out on the Market, a great feeling for someone that doesn't usually finish personal projects. I love vector graphics! Give us a link to the market so we can check it out.
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