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For those of you who know Processing or jQuery… I know, that is two totally different things, but check out what John Resig (the creator of jQuery) just conjured up: Processing.js. I think I can safely say: WHAAAAAAAAAAA?!!!

I created another jQuery plugin: SFBrowser.
It’s a jQuery/PHP5 file- browsing and uploading plugin and features: ajax file upload, localisation, file filtering, file renameing, sortable file table, folder creation, file download, file/folder context menu, image resize, image preview, text/ascii preview… etc…
I haven’t got round to setting up an example page yet but examples and explanations are in the download from the link above.

I was doing some jquery (javascript) today and created a sorting function for html nodes. I tried to find a jquery function or plugin that could do it but I couldn’t find it.

I’ve been using jquery for a year or so, and since it’s just a lazy sunday afternoon out here, I thought I’d turn this snippet into a plugin. It’s a nice and small for for a first plugin.

You can download TinySort from http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TinySort, examples and explanations are here.

I’ve rewritten my PSP e-book and typepad. Since nobody without any PHP knowledge was able to use the e-book reader I created a page in which you can customize the typepad a bit, and add e-books. Then you can download your custom data as a zip file to unpack onto your PSP.
click here to get started (I had to hack my way into Wordpress a bit to get everything to work, I’ll fix it later)

I had an error in my ‘estimated time left to render’. After 24 hours it was at minus threethousand percent :-p but I didn’t dare stop the render: thought it a shame to just discard those 24 hours of rendering, and I hoped/guessed it would be done soon. But it kept on rendering for 48 hours, and the result isn’t even that great. It’s not that rendering a movie this long is that slow, it were just way too many iterations for the resolution.
But at least I know the application itself is stable!

The first animation from the ‘Attractor viewer‘ rebuild. Rendering animations is now easy as pie (thanks to Daniel Shiffmans MovieMaker library). In the last version I would spit out tons of tif files and import them into Flash to export it as a movie.
The problem with the last version was that it was built in the Processing 69 version. For which you needed Quicktime for Java which is now nowhere to be found or won’t install properly (I can’t remember which). The online version is still working but it doesn’t save images (that will change in the new version). Besides, looking at the code more than a year later did not really encourage me to adjust it to the latest Processing version.
A good year of doing Actionscript 3 really changed the way I code. I did do a small test to get it to work in as3 but, as you can see for your self, it sucks.
Maybe in a week I’ll upload a first new version. There’s still lot’s of things to do. I first want to try to get a good render print (A2 at 300 dpi). Only a ‘mere’ two billion iterations will not do I fear, so goodbye int.

Just a small preview of what’s to come…

(yeah, I’m rewriting old stuff)

Oh how cute is that… while accidentally recreating my old Terraformer filter I took a little sidestep in Flash, displacing the new filter’s cloud map with it’s animated self.
It looks almost real.

My snowflake filter has gone high usage. HU nr5 means free Filter Forge lifetime upgrades. YES!!!
Well, if I had actually done some paid work instead of playing around with Filter Forge I would have been able to buy it a long time ago. But it’s way nicer to earn it this way.

The long awaited version 2 alpha is out. Well it has been out for about two weeks but I haven’t had time to look into it. I’ve cooked up a little something to try it out together with some Filter Forge filters: check it out.
There are of course still some things that need to be fixed, but hey, it’s an alpha.