References

Back to… 5 | very interesting Toward a Philosophy of Modeling parallelUniverses is a compendium of the foundational framework in which today’s practitioner of 3D modeling and fabrication operates, enhancing know-how knowledge typically found in software tutorial with a know-why reference source. Readings for 5 | Very Interesting 5 | very interesting Read the following in parallelUniverses: Glossaries: Film-making… read more »

4D media artMachine javaScript Humanizing JS The heaviest lift artists and designers face when creating compelling digital work is programming. I don’t even really count HTML or CSS in this category at all, because they are markup languages and comparatively more intuitive to become accustomed to. A programming language is an altogether different beast. You… read more »

4D media artMachine flipBook A 100-frame animation done in flip-book style Flip your book Instead of a software focus, we’re going to begin with a low-tech analog animation technique known as the flip book. Pre-dating animated film by about 50 years, flip books use the phenomenon known as persistence of vision to achieve the illusion… read more »

4D media artMachine deathOfFlash Nick Cardy and Tatjana Wood, cover art for The Flash, Vol 1, #227, June 1974 (Re)Animate When D.C. Comic’s superhero the Flash runs so mind-bogglingly fast that he seemingly dies, he enters another dimension — the Speedforce — wherein he turns into a lightning bolt and travels back in time. In… read more »

4D media 3 | concrete poetry helloWorld Visit the sample site here > Say hello to the sample site Hello World has become a tradition in programming: it’s the first program you write in a new language. First mentioned in a tutorial to the B programming language, it was popularized in a 1978 book introducing The C… read more »

4D media 3 | concrete poetry sftp Adobe Dreamweaver’s inscrutable connect-to-remote-server icon SFTP: the other protocol Have you ever wondered what HTTP or HTTPS means in a web address? It’s called a protocol, and in simplified terms, it’s there to allow a server (where the website lives) and a client (the device attempting access to… read more »

4D media 3 | concrete poetry webOrigins Sticker identifying a computer, used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, as the world’s first web server: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!“ Web origins Where did the World Wide Web come from? Some might say from the mind, and the server seen above,… read more »

4D media 2 | a2z fileTypes Download sample file here File types and asset management for web graphics There are about 2000 multimedia assets embedded or linked in newMediaWiki that help it tell the tale of digital media for artists. Each one has an extension that lets the computer know what file type the asset… read more »

4D media 2 | a2z eTypography Typesetting tools for movable type. From Wikimedia Commons. eTypography Type spec’ing and setting Before the desktop publishing revolution, type specification and typesetting was a laboriously hand-crafted affair. In his illuminating blog post on The Lost Art of Type Spec’ing, font designer Mark Simonson says: We are so spoiled nowadays. We… read more »

4D media 2 | a2z alphaBravo Jasper Johns, Colored Alphabet, 1959 Alpha Bravo The advent of airplane warfare in the first half of the 20th century ushered in the widespread use of radio communication in navigation. Between static on the radio and the sounds of battle, the garbled “b” versus “d” sound in a message containing… read more »