A Birthday card for Pete
To celebrate the birthday of my friend Pete McPartlan, and in a bit of blatant one-upmanship to upstage the pd patch he made me for mine, I’ve made a little kaleidoscope toy thing…
It uses the Google o3d browser plugin, which means that it can use a pixel shader to speed up computation when running on a compatible computer. You’ll have to install it from that link in the likely event you don’t already have it installed. To be honest the same thing might be better done with Java / Processing (complete with accelerated GL), or Flash (lack of acceleration would hardly matter for something this simple, really)…
Click / drag in the graphics bit to randomly change stuff (I might do a bit more work on the dynamics of that), press space to change the behaviour. You can paste the URL of an image into the text box underneath the graphic, then double click on the text input to load it (I’ll definitely improve that…).
2 comments September 19th, 2009