http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition the ultimate blog for my projects at itp...who am I??...I am Sinan Ascioglu... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:13:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim's spinning circles! In OpenProcessing! Awesome! http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/31/a-try-to-see-if-iframe-would-work-on-blogblender/ Couldn't find the chance to talk about the sister project of OpenVisuals, OpenProcessing.org I developed last week. Basically, it is a exhibition space for Processing Community. Before giving details about the project, here is a test of the 'embed applet' feature in OpenProcessing. Gives you the ability to embed any ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/29/embedding-test-for-visuals-at-openprocessing/ I was able to put myVillage visualization to OpenVisuals.org. Things look fine, except that because of the size limitation at OpenVisuals.org, the lines don't look smooth. Here is the link: http://www.openvisuals.org/visuals/?visualID=117 http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/14/myvillage-is-on-openvisuals/ yesterday, I guess for no reason, I started working on this visualization called myVillage&ITP. I am trying to visualize and also generate some kind of artsy piece out of where the people of ITP spend their time most often, and how they would walk to this place and come back ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/10/villageitp-a-visualization-of-where-itp-spends-its-time-at-the-village/ In response to the final chapter in Clay Shirky's new book, Here Comes Everybody, questions on OpenVisuals coming to my mind are: Why a user should spend time on being a part of OpenVisuals?  This also brings more complicated questions: why she should spend time tweaking her visualizations with the API? ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/03/whys-and-why-nots/ Here are great four questions Clay is expecting us to answer every week. And here are my very first answers about what's going on: What did you do last week? I implemented that tagging function for visualizations, so any visualization uploaded can be tagged (not sure about datasets yet). Using these tags ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/03/03/4x4-answers-and-questions-on-the-big-issues-of-openvisuals/ Touchies is my experimental project for Telepresence Class. Touchies, (two cubicles with a soft section to finger) (soft section is made out of toilet paper) (how lame!), allow you to send your touch of finger real time to another touchy. You can send your warm touch to your lovely who ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/02/26/touchies-send-me-your-warm-touch-honey/ I am trying to collect sample datasets to use in my thesis project OpenVisuals.org. As of that, these sample datasets should: sample a generic type of datasets. should have different but generic formats, which would be a format outcome of copying/pasting, exporting from excel, etc.. (right now, I can think of ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/02/21/sample-datasets-for-openvisualsorg/ My initial thesis statement was: Open Source Visualization Framework. I have a dataset -> pie charts is not enough to visualize it.. I go to openVisualz.org -> pick a suitable visualization -> submit my data -> customize the view -> put the result to my blog... I am a programmer and produce data in ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/02/02/thesis-statement-and-related-changes/ whoa! what a name!  Though the details are not clear yet, four word 32 letter title scares me off! so this is the jump start point of the project. the first post. done. http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/01/26/open-source-visualization-framework/ So, starting the last semester at ITP (this feeling sucks), and getting ready for thesis! Having said that, here is a project proposal for Telepresence class: Do you have your loved one away? Are you bored of his business trips? Are you most often sleeping alone in your king size bed? PillowSolus is ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2008/01/25/nice-starting-again-but-for-the-last-time/ This is the greatest time of the semester; ITP is full of weird projects hanging around, my projects are about to be finished, and all the couches has somebody sleeping on it..  (Robert Moon, is sleeping right next to me, and he has a cellphone on his forehead!?!). Anyway, I prepared ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/12/13/lovely-please-get-ready-for-the-show/ YAY! Both JohnTrain and EYT got accepted to ITP Winter Show! See you there: http://itp.nyu.edu/show/winter2007/ http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/12/07/itp-winter-show-2007-accepted/ I am tired, and I need sleep... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/12/07/hmm/ This is pretty much the last stop on "Eye on You, Tarantino". Rob Ryan installed the amazing projector in front of the column, and here is the last prototype of my project. Tomorrow is the day to build the column-hugger. Hands-on woodcutting, with a little bit o' plexi.. "Let's get physical, ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/12/01/last-touch-before-getting-physical/ It is amazing to see that EYT is getting ready for the final presentation... There is very little left to do on the software side, and weekend is getting ready for building the physical controller! (I call it 'EYT columnHugger') A screenshot from the software is below. So what is new? Now ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/11/29/last-tricks-on-eyt/ Here are some videos from EYT controller prototype that I built from cardboard. Getting closer, and 1 week left... yey! EYT project prototype from Sinan Ascioglu on Vimeo. EYT project prototype from Sinan Ascioglu on Vimeo. EYT prototype from Sinan Ascioglu on Vimeo. http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/11/27/eyt-controller-prototype/ I installed google analytics to see what people are interested in this blog, and I was amazed to see that there are a lot of people looking for a source code for eye tracking. I can totally understand the suffer and the pain these people are having, appreciate their future ... http://www.wiredpieces.com/itpedition/2007/11/25/google-analytics-says-put-your-source-code/