Category Archives: Seneca

How much does a song cost?

Lukas and I were talking about a great video today, The Money Tree, in which a tree is carefully adorned with 100 one-dollar bills, each one containing a short note exemplifying the obvious serendipity of coming upon such a sight.  It’s a wonderful video, and the music is great too. It caused me to share a [...]
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Experiments with audio, conclusion

I’ve been working with an amazing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today those experiments are over. In December a few of us working on processing.js had an idea–what if we could visualize sound data coming out of an [...]
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Update on DXR work

As I wrote previously, I’ve switched to DXR work for the summer, and have been making some good progress over the past month.  I wanted to show you some of the things I’ve done, and where I’m going in the coming weeks. Much of my work thus far has been a backend rewrite.  This was long [...]
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Restarting DXR Development

It’s summer and with the change in weather, I’m going to take a holiday from much of my work on web media and audio/visual code for Mozilla.  I’ll still be working on the audio data api patch, but the rest of my work I’m going to put on ice for a few months so I [...]
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Open Source Research at Seneca

Last Thursday, David Agnew (President of Seneca) and Gary Goodyear (federal Minister of State (Science and Technology)) announced that Seneca college had received one of 12 NSERC grants.  The grant is specifically targeted to Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology, to help us grow our involvement in open source, and to help local businesses [...]
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Experiments with audio, part X

I’m working with an ever growing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we show you how much JavaScript can really do. Since my last post, quite a few new people have joined our group, a lot has changed in [...]
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View Source as Musical Innovation

I’ve been interested to watch the flood of reactions around the web to our latest demos and audio experiments.  Here are a few: Al MacDonald lays out a history and potential future for our work Article in Create Digital Music, “Real Sound Synthesis, Now in the Browser; Possible New Standard?” Post on Wired’s WebMonkey blog, “New HTML5 Tools [...]
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Experiments with audio, part IX

I’m working with an ever growing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we show what we did at www2010. I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Al MacDonald for the www2010 conference.  We’re here to present [...]
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Watching the open web play with Processing.js

As we get closer to finishing Processing.js, it’s awesome to watch people doing new things with it.  Building a technology on the open web means new ways of interaction and deployment suddenly become possible.  Take, for example, Robert O’Rourke’s newly released PJSBox bookmarklet, which allows arbitrary processing code on a web page to be highlighted [...]
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Processing.js 0.7, plus ref tests with canvas

Today we finished final testing for Processing.js 0.7 and released it for download.  It represents a lot of hard work by an ever growing community of developers.  This release once again focuses on feature parity with Processing, as well as bug fixes.  We’ve added some big new features, like PImage and image loading, as well [...]
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