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 [...]
Microsoft has a new line of TouchMouse. They have a campaign to cooinside with it called the Art of Touch and have invited a few artists to participate and more to drive interest with free shwag! Basically that boils down to me having a to give away! So go play with the app and link [...]
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, [...]
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; [...]
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 [...]
After seeing the source code in the original experiment, I found myself wanting to play with the code. I saw many elements of the lines and actions that could be interesting to explore. This is the first in a series, of experiments I’ll post starting from this code and pushing different things each time. They’ll [...]
The world has been excited by html5/css3 recently and has been pushing limits and experimenting. It’s been exciting and funny at the same time – most of the things that are amazing people in html5 experiments have been done 5 years ago in flash. I’ve enjoyed it so much though because it has brought me [...]
An interactive flash portfolio featuring ‘pog’ thumbnails sortable by tags and adjustable properties. open Circle Cube POG portfolio Circle Cube . com Toggle the help window with ‘h’. Click the pogs to explore each piece, if applicaple click the ‘open window’ link. Pog options are aligned across the top of the bay window, use them [...]
Mixed media charcoal and ink self portrait, snarling with teeth expression.
Charcoal Self Portrait, wide mouth smile expression.
Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。
New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]
Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]
Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]
A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]
I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]
Here are a few useful css tricks to remember when building responsive design sites from web designer wall Embedded Link 5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on [...]
Bruce details the reasons and story behind the srcset attribute which is now introduced as an alternative to the picture element. Some aspects of the attribute are nice (like the fact that it's an attribute and not a new element, so it's creating up new elements with for problems. It's adapting currently used elements to [...]
Here's a very creative use of using a newly available technology. Using svg graphics which are very lightweight, for a website preloader. I like the animation used as well. Embedded Link Make a stylish preloader with SVG | Tutorial | .net magazine Many sites neglect users with slow connections. Ian Culshaw explains how to use [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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