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WordCamp Presentation Slides: From Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme

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Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi

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Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2012

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I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]

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Snow via Javascript & Canvas – Tis the Season

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After playing with the settings in my experiments I found a few settings I liked and wanted to develop further. The first was snow! An added bonus I was able to work on a project just for the holidays and used much of this code in it! I looked around the web and saw a [...]

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Link: Close Pixelate · David DeSandro

I saw this script back when David put it out there and was very impressed, but totally forgot where I’d seen it. Working lots with canvas and imageData recently and have been trying to remember where I’d seen this awesome experiment using it, I wanted to shout it. And now he’s linking to Ben Keens [...]

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Interactive Physics Animations Javascript Canvas 03

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This iteration really isn’t that big, but I figured baby steps may be the way to go here. We’re just giving the first circle a random position. The other dots are positioned relative to the first one still. interactive physics animations via javascript & canvas | 03. $(function () {     var canvas, context, [...]

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Interactive Physics Animations Javascript Canvas 02

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Adding more circles, each a multiple of the first circle’s coordinates. I like the effect of having them all move in unison. Ceck the source: interactive physics animations via javascript & canvas | 02 $(function () {     var canvas, context, width, height, x, y, radius = 25, clickX, clickY, drag = false;   [...]

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A More Interactive Portfolio

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I think a portfolio is something that should be very interactive and intuitive. Check out what that has led to: circlecube’s interactive pog portfolio. I’ve been toying with trying to get something that was fun to look at, but also showed some work. Here is a first look at my Interactive portfolio of work which [...]

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Interactive Generative Art Series – 08 – multiple lines scalable

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Well, so much for blogging each step in my process of creating this generative art series. I took a few steps in this iteration since the last one. But it was all in the spirit of one step. First I wanted to abstract the duplication of each ball/line so that it didn’t require copying blocks [...]

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Interactive Generative Art Series – 07 – multiple lines

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To make it more interesting and give more depth and texture to the display, I wanted to have more lines than one, so I’m now going with two for starters. Eventually I’d like to get up to a dozen or maybe even have them randomly self populate and die over time. Adding one more isn’t [...]

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Interactive Generative Art Series – 06 – lineStyle

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The last example in this series discussed getting the anchor to move in a way that our ball would paint more interesting and we worked on restricting the colors to a certain RGB range. This one is a very simple change, but has a pretty significant effect. We’re just editing the cap style of our [...]

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