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Shades of White
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Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Is a lamp which changes spectrum without changing color. The white light is steady in the center, but its shifting nature is visible in the colored fringes, or at the edge of shadows cast by the lamp. If you have a modern web browser, the large circle above should be animated. Using six lights, each a different pure color, allows a nearly complete palette of the visible colors. The images here don't capture the actual colors well - purples. Designed and built by Nick Thompson.
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Nick Thompson: old time lapse experiments
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Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Old time lapse photography experiments. I've wanted to do time lapse photography for as long as i can remember. Here are some things i've done with a digital camera. I just put the camera on a tripod and took a picture every minute or two or three. The photos were sequenced into a flash animation using some custom python code. California poppy opening, March 20, 2002 flash, 512kb. The first flower in my roof garden, opening on the first day of spring. Jetlag got me up.
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Critters: visual programming for games and animation
http://nixweb.com/critters
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Critters: a visual programming language for animation. Critters is a visual programming language that I worked on in grad school. These documents were written in that context rather than for a general audience. Slides from the proposal. The first implementation was written in the summer of 1995 using STk. An object-oriented dialect of Scheme with bindings for the Tk toolkit. This served as a proof of concept for the thesis proposal. This page is part of Nixweb.com.
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Nick Thompson - about me
http://nixweb.com/about
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Nick Thompson - about me. Welcome to my personal website. I use this site to publish the various artifacts I've built, and perhaps for some light blogging in the future. On this page I'll be using the word. The best way to reach me is by email at. I've lived in California since 1990 and in San Francisco since 1998. I was born in Devonshire and have lived in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Colorado as well. Hosted web application platform. In 1994 and completed the ...
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You are Here
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Nick Thompson - Nixweb. You are Here: an interactive map of the Earth and Sky. We usually orient ourselves to our immediate surroundings - the horizon, nearby streets and buildings. Intellectually we know that our relatively flat local world is part of a much larger sphere, but few of us think about the stars under our feet, or can point in the direction of the sun at night. A Tour of the Sky. With You are Here. An arts festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. This page is part of Nixweb.com.
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Miscellaneous source code
http://nixweb.com/src
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Miscellaneous source code, in hopes it may be useful to someone. Mostly GPL. D This code is distributed with no warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Emacs control of visual c. Vcdb is a command-line interface to the visual c debugger, with an extension to the gnu emacs gud.el package. Flags in the emacs modeline. Use an existing ssh-agent process if possible. Pretty spirals for OpenGL under Win32. All content 1996 -.
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You are Here at Burningman 2004
http://nixweb.com/you-are-here/installation.html
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. You are Here: Installation at Burningman 2004. This installation was built to showcase the You are Here. Project at the Burningman festival in September 2004. Two aluminum arches, aligned to the compass points, cross to form an open dome 20 feet in diameter. The North-South arch marks the meridian of longitude. The East-West arch is tilted southward to match the celestial equator. Shadecloth covers the southern side of the dome. Shadecloth sewing and fitting, on-site support.
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Nick Thompson - wind visualization applet and source code
http://nixweb.com/dust
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. San Francisco Bay Area wind visualization. See more weather visualizations at Upweather. This applet uses a particle system to visualize wind patterns in the San Francisco Bay Area, using observed wind data. And a computed vector field. Based on these data. The applet here is based on data from July 1999, but you can find a current animation at http:/ sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind/streaklines.shtml. When that site is down you might also try the page at www.met.sjsu.edu/wind.
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Nick Thompson - Ripperbot
http://nixweb.com/ripperbot
Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Is an abandoned project to convert large numbers of compact discs to mp3 format. It was based on a Powerfile C200S. DVD changer that holds 200 discs. It never made it to serious use because the audio extraction capabilities of the drive in the C200S were so poor, and because loading and unloading the jukebox takes almost as long as scanning a disc on a modern drive. So this page is mostly here to show the pretty pictures of the insides of the device. The final source code.
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Nick Thompson - Alexander Technique
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Nick Thompson - Nixweb. Nick Thompson - Lessons in the Alexander Technique. 4221 20th St #2, SF CA ( map. I offer private instruction in the Alexander Technique at my home in the Castro area of San Francisco. I graduated in December 2003 from the Alexander Technique Institute of San Francisco, a training program approved by the American Society for the Alexander Technique. This page is part of Nixweb.com. All content 1996 -.
