Posts by Dave Stewart 

If you made something that was used by over Ten Million people, would you/it be a success?

I am in the middle of constructing a FTIR table and, until my lasers arrive, I decided to get some output from my iPhone. After all, it’s a great touch screen and a change from building apps in Flash, which I know better.

I thought I would post the source for the the Spectrum Analysis tool I created for anyone wanting a quick way to get some data from their favorite tune and perhaps figure out a way to use it in a optimized fashion.

I jumped over from Raphael back to Processing again today and built a visualizer for Twitter data.

Last week I worked up an audio visualizer in Flash for a friend that yielded some nice results; doing the same thing with canvas and JavaScript requires a more roundabout method that is less accurate but more gratifying from a coding perspective.

I took a day to extend the tentacle class to work on 360° and secondary motion from a parent node, but here it is, the first critter for my ocean.

A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral or growth spiral is a special kind of spiral curve which often appears in nature. The logarithmic spiral was first described by Descartes and later extensively investigated by Jakob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, “the marvelous spiral.”

I have been experimenting with the new HTML5 canvas element and trying to get up to speed on the syntax.

Our latest project, launched November 12, was the Charter For Compassion. The “Collective,” the Flash component I built, is a growing list of compassionate acts done by people all over the globe.