Arrangement in Magenta, Thermochromatic Ink, Tin and Nichrome

May 27, 2009 at 2:35 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Experiments with thermochromatic ink with an underlaying heat grid driven by an Arduino and MAX7219 LED driver. 

more to come soon…

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RED

February 9, 2009 at 1:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Procedure based poetry:
1.) check the blogs you read daily (or go to blogpulse.com)
2.) search for ” red ”
3.) take the sentence that contains the word red and write it down
4.) repeat step 3 until you have gone through all the returned results on the first page.

import rita.*;

XMLElement xml;
int width = 1100;
int height = 768;
int yPlacement = height/2;

void setup() {
  size(width, height);
  RiText.setDefaultFont("CushingStd-MediumItalic-15.vlw");
  RiText.setFontSize(25);
  RiText rt1, rt2;

  String url = "http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22+red+%22&sort=date&operator=";
  xml = new XMLElement(this, url);

  XMLElement[] itemNumber = xml.getChildren("channel/item");
  XMLElement[] title = xml.getChildren("channel/item/title");
  XMLElement[] description = xml.getChildren("channel/item/description");
  XMLElement[] source = xml.getChildren("channel/item/source");
  XMLElement[] sourceTime = xml.getChildren("channel/item/pubDate");

  println("There are: " + itemNumber.length + " entries");

  for (int i = 0; i < itemNumber.length; i++) {

    String descriptionText = description[i].getContent();
    String[] sentence = splitTokens(descriptionText, ".");
    String sourceTitle = source[i].getContent();
    String publishTime = sourceTime[i].getContent();
    String sourceURL = source[i].getStringAttribute("url");

    for (int i2 = 0; i2 < sentence.length; i2++) {
        if (sentence[i2].indexOf(" red ") >= 0) {
          println(sentence[i2]);
          println("FROM:  " + sourceTitle + " | Published on: " + publishTime );
          println("URL:  " + sourceURL);
          println(" ");

          yPlacement = yPlacement-50;
          RiText[] lines = RiText.createLines(this, sentence[i2], (height/2)/2/2, yPlacement, 200);

          // Fade Out
           for (int i3 = 0; i3 < lines.length; i3++) {
              lines[i3].fadeOut((i2*5)+1, 5);
            }
      }
    }
  }
}

void draw() {
  background(255);
}

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