A heartbeat, some books, and an IDE

Ouch! My last post has almost been 5 months ago! Realizing this, I had two options: to feign my own death until the next update, or to give some sign of (what for me passes as) life. Let’s go with the second option and see if there’s anything useful I can pass on anyway. Not…

One year later: a short retrospective

The first post on this blog dates from May 4th, 2008, so I thought it fitting to look back at the year that has passed since then. Over the time I’ve done some experiments/projects that, when I look back at them, make me think “What was I thinking?!”. On the other hand, there are luckily a few…

Strange visual results, pseudo generative art?

Last night, I had the idea to take part of the previous fluid solver, but instead of placing the “ink” in a grid, I’d replace it with particles and have those move according to the velocity grid. It would give a stronger impression of detail. It didn’t look all that great from a realistic point of…

Flash Player 10 on the big screen!

On a rare occasion, instead of posting code and experiments, I like to post some things I’ve done at my job. Especially when it illustrates a practical use of some of my earlier experiments. So here we go! For a project for the University of Ghent at Nascom (via Saatchi & Saatchi), I had to create…

I’m like, well hip.

After a long time of scepticism and critique, my colleagues have finally persuaded me to join Twitter. This phase of scepticism is pretty normal for me when it concerns the embarassingly public social side of the web [2.0 if you will]. As such, I still don’t have a Facebook account, that at least is still…