codecat » Art like Life http://www.codecat.com Charles Swarts' Dark Matter Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:30:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Application Feature Creep; Just Say No! http://www.codecat.com/2010/02/16/application-feature-creep-just-say-no/ http://www.codecat.com/2010/02/16/application-feature-creep-just-say-no/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:08:39 +0000 codecat http://www.codecat.com/?p=408 If you are not diligent, your application may end up like this

If you are not diligent, your application may end up like this

I just finished re-reading this excellent article by Lukas Mathis on how, why, and how to prevent feature creep from appearing over time in applications. All software and web applications are prone to this disease, don’t let it happen to you!

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Sometimes you encounter something that is equal parts art and sport. Life should be full of such things.

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An example Map widget that allows me to embed a collection of places in a map on this blog. Pretty cool eh?

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Streetview Art - Sampsonia Way

Streetview Art - Sampsonia Way

What the heck is going on in this streetview image from Pittsburgh’s Northside? Google Streetview Art. Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Somehow reminds me of the intricate, absurd, and dark humor of Hieronymus Bosch. Check it out at http://www.streetwithaview.com/

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Sometimes you notice a sign meant to communicate an idea that instead communicates something else. Take the above sign we saw throughout Australia, this one from the Daintree Rainforest. These “Slippery when wet” signs convey something else entirely when you really take a close look. I mean, look at those tire tracks! How could they possibly cross over like that? I guess what this sign really means to convey is “Physical Laws Do Not Apply for the next 5KM”.

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Columbia University physicist Brian Greene recently chose the winner of the String Theory in Two Minutes or Less user-generated video contest… nice presentation of an abstract idea.

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]]> http://www.codecat.com/2007/08/06/500-years-of-women-in-art/feed/ 0 1 picture a day for six years http://www.codecat.com/2007/05/11/1-picture-a-day-for-six-years/ http://www.codecat.com/2007/05/11/1-picture-a-day-for-six-years/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 15:42:43 +0000 codecat http://www.codecat.com/2007/05/11/1-picture-a-day-for-six-years/ I found this disciplined simple artwork by Noah Kalina powerful.

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Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell, illustrating mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus. This award winning piece was the first topic in a series of animations XVIVO is creating for Harvards educational website BioVisions at Harvard.

This is an incredible bit of Flash work which conveys some of the humbling complexity within a single human cell. Check out the majesty of the inner universe, the microtubules, the golgi!

Conception and Scientific Content by Alain Viel and Robert A Lue
Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO and Biovisions, Harvard College

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