2011
Möbius Ship | Indianapolis Museum of Art
Möbius Ship also humorously refers to the mathematical concept of the Möbius Strip. Named after a nineteenth-century astronomer and mathematician, the Möbius Strip is a surface that has only one side, and exists as a continuous curve. Its simple yet complex spatial configuration presents a visual puzzle that parallels Hawkinson’s transformation of the mundane materials into something unexpected.
2010
Sorting Colors - Visualmotive Blog
oooooh!To see all the color sorting possibilities, we wrote a Python script to try every permutation against a common set of source images. Click here to see every color sorting option. Note that we use a Hilbert curve in the top set of images to provide better grouping of similar color values. The bottom set of images is linear and wrapped: left to right, then top to bottom.
2009
About | Mapdiva, LLC
You know how powerful maps are – to communicate, to convince, to plan, to dream. But existing mapping tools make hard work of a good map. General-purpose graphics programs know nothing about mapping and can be an exercise in frustration. And GIS» geographic information systems (GIS) are used to manage and analyze geospatial data; though powerful for those purposes they often produce unattractive “GIS-looking” maps!have a steep learning curve, are expensive, and lack high-quality presentation graphics.
Apostrophe Now!
by sbrothier & 5 others
Apostrophe™ is a content management system designed for maximum flexibility with a minimal learning curve. The interface is ergonomic, all content-editing is performed in-context.
SourceForge.net: Open Flash Board
by ycc2106
Open Flash Board is a free, open source whiteboard drawing application. OFB provides the ability to draw with various tools (curve, circle, line, rectangle), move the various drawn objects, group objects, scale objects and grouped objects and save as XML
First Look: Apple Stays Ahead of the Curve With iPhone 3.0 OS | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
by night.kame (via)
Apple Stays Ahead of the Curve With iPhone 3.0 OS
C'est marrant, le contenu de l'article on dirait un mix de l'évolution de Palm OS entre 1998 et 2002. On va appeler ça l'avance dans le retard.
LESS - Leaner CSS
by oqdbpo & 7 others
Less uses existing css syntax. This means you can migrate your current .css files to .less in seconds and there is virtually no learning curve.
The best way to explain Less is to show you some code, so please go ahead and check out the examples below:
iSite Essentials for Drupal Users | LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX
by claire_
extended distribution of Drupal designed for building enterprise-class Web 2.0 style websites. It comes in a single download that includes Drupal core, over 60 contributed modules, and several additional custom modules in a pre-configured installation profile. The primary purpose of Essentials is to make the true power of Drupal accessible to all. Drupal is unmatched in the open source world as far as flexibility and extensibility. However, this power comes at a cost; a significant learning curve.
2008
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Counting & Timing
viewing the regular 24h curve, I would do a gaussian reduction to show the details.Gauges are easy, but RRD is clever enough to know how counters change over time. It then lets you graph these data points in interesting ways.
ILoveSketch
A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models.
symfony Web PHP Framework » About
by mozkart
Symfony is a web application framework for PHP5 projects.
It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
The very small number of prerequisites make symfony easy to install on any configuration; you just need Unix or Windows with a web server and PHP 5 installed. It is compatible with almost every database system. In addition, it has a very small overhead, so the benefits of the framework don't come at the cost of an increase of hosting costs.
Using symfony is so natural and easy for people used to PHP and the design patterns of Internet applications that the learning curve is reduced to less than a day. The clean design and code readability will keep your delays short. Developers can apply agile development principles (such as DRY, KISS or the XP philosophy) and focus on applicative logic without losing time to write endless XML configuration files.
Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match your enterprise's development guidelines, symfony is bundled with additional tools helping you to test, debug and document your project.
Last but not least, by choosing symfony you get the benefits of an active open-source community. It is entirely free and published under the MIT license.
Symfony is sponsored by Sensio, a French Web Agency well known for its innovative views on web development.
Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO
by springnet & 3 others
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and
Terragen™
by tadeufilippini (via)
Overview
Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use.
Although Terragen is a continually evolving work-in-progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen has been used in a variety of commercial applications including film, television and music videos, games and multimedia, books, magazines and print advertisements. For just a small selection of projects Terragen has been used in, please visit the commercial use page.
Despite the fact that Terragen can be used for professional landscape visualisation projects, it is accessible and easy to get started with. You could be rendering your first landscape image in as little as 15 minutes after installation.
You can view a gallery of images created by Terragen users here.
Terragen has a native user interface, using facilities provided by the operating system of the respective platform, as opposed to the custom user interfaces used by many similar applications. This means Terragen can follow the usage conventions of each platform as closely as possible, which ensures that it looks and feels just like the other applications you use and means there is no learning curve with respect to the basic operation of Terragen. Here are some screenshots of Terragen on different platforms. Click to see larger
2007
Stupid JavaScript Tricks: "3D" Panorama
by nhoizey
Attempt to make a panorama using just JavaScript. It creates a series of div columns, and then puts copies of the image in each column. As you move your mouse across the image, it stretches the columns vertically along a sin curve to fake the 3D look
Groovy - An agile dynamic language for the Java Platform
by roulian & 11 others
Groovy ...
* is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine
* builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk
* makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve
* supports Domain Specific Languages and other compact syntax so your code becomes easy to read and maintain
* makes writing shell and build scripts easy with its powerful processing primitives, OO abilities and an Ant DSL
* increases developer productivity by reducing scaffolding code when developing web, GUI, database or console applications
* simplifies testing by supporting unit testing and mocking out-of-the-box
* seamlessly integrates with all existing Java objects and libraries
* compiles straight to Java bytecode so you can use it anywhere you can use Java
MIDI and Music Synthesis Tutorial
by Emaux
The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) protocol has been widely accepted and utilized by musicians and composers since its conception in 1983. MIDI data is a very efficient method of representing musical performance information, and this makes MIDI an attractive protocol not only for composers or performers, but also for computer applications which produce sound, such as multimedia presentations or computer games. However, the lack of standardization of synthesizer capabilities hindered applications developers and presented new MIDI users with a rather steep learning curve to overcome.
