Experiments

So I didn’t get a chance to put all this on my wordpress site yet but follow this link to see what I’ve been working on.

See The Goodbye Sky! Code in action (not quite finished but a decent demo)

You can use this PixaMixa Application to turn any photo into ascii art. 

Ascii art is art made from text characters. 

http://pixamixa.com/asciiGen/index.php

PixaMixa’s Ctrl+A image generator lets you hide a picture inside of another one using the “Microsoft Hidden Image” bug.

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This is a screenshot from the PixaMixa painter beta application.  The flash application lets you draw with 35 dynamic brushes, featuring several animated brushes.  You can also change the background color, foreground color, opacity and size of your brush, erase, fill and change to one of 14 different blend modes.  The save feature is still a little quirky but have fun painting! http://pixamixa.com/painter/

A long time ago I built this simple application to add cartoon speech and thought balloons to pictures.  You can upload a pic and then click it to add a simple bubble to it. 

There is also a thought bubble app too:  http://matthewroy.com/thinkBubble/

I came up with this idea as a background for a banner for my new blog site I’m working on.  The concept is pretty simple: show the sun rising/setting at the appropriate times, show the moon in its current phase at night, and add a weather layer to show the weather in my current location.  Check the current development http://dev.matthewroy.com/weather/ (more…)

A lot of the experimentations and projects I have done have been related to Image Manipulation with code.  One project that I started was working with PHP image filters.  Some of these filters can be achieved with simple built in functions, others are acheived with extensive combinations of the built in functions, and some are created from scratch doing pixel level manipulations.  The following thumbnails are an example of several of the effects I’ve created with nothing more than PHP code making use of the GD Library. 

Please note that there is no web interface to currently apply these filters to your own images however if I ever get time to get back to this I will be sure to let you know.

Virtual Brittney

An experiment in artificial intelligence. (more…)