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News, Work and Writings from SRJM

This is my online journal featuring a strange mix of art, web-design, programming and anything else that comes to mind.
Perhaps you might be interested in a particular topic such as viewing my web design work, my projects in flash and actionscript or other forms of programming. Alternatively you might like to look at posts showing my creative artwork or photography.

Easter Sunday Photos

15th April, 2009

I’ve uploaded some of the photos taken on Easter Sunday from Dartmoor.

Ruin - Easter Sunday (Dartmoor)

Closer Lizard - Easter Sunday (Dartmoor)

Tiny Cross - Easter Sunday (Dartmoor)

Posted in Art and Photography by Simon

Avatar Model

13th April, 2009

My Initial 3D avatar model idea mocked up in 3D:

The idea is to represent a more traditional aesthetic of meditation, providing a connection between the project and the field of biofeedback’s origins.

Also the development of the environment and the terrain mesh:

DirectX Coursework2 Hand-in

2nd April, 2009

Here is a screenshot of my mobile lights floating around the fish model all wrapped up in a micro-terrain:

soft2

Dissertation Hand-in

30th March, 2009

The dissertation hand-in marks that there is only the DirectX coursework and final year project left to complete. Here’s a picture of my two printed documents yesterday ready for binding and handin:

Pair of Dissertations Ready to Hand In

The actual document is available here: Dissertation.pdf

Update on DirectX 2

29th March, 2009

Here are some screenshots I took a couple of days ago of developing my mobile lights. I’ve also decided to re-use the fish model for now since I have nothing better to replace it with!

First light

Here is a shot of my first light, not doing very much interesting.

Improving lights

The final lights are completely mobile and have behaviour determined by taking analogue signals from my USB circuitboard. The motion ranges from soothing and gentle to fast and erratic.

Mobile mixed lights

Completed IPGL Website

23rd March, 2009

In between university work, I’ve made a website for IPGL Limited, based on the design for Matt Wreford’s personal website.

View the IPGL site.

About IPGL page


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Posted in Web Design by Simon

Examples of Books

14th March, 2009

I’ve taken a couple of photos of the sources of inspiration for my narrative, including Bored of the Rings:

Parody Book (Bored of the Rings)


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Running DirectX with Analogue Input

12th March, 2009

Here’s a screenshot of my visualiser with a model (albeit the tiger model), mobile camera AND analogue input signals displaying in the output, built on the DXUT utility library.

DirectX biofeedback app screenshot

A few more tweaks were needed to get the slower USB interface to read reliably while DirectX pounded my graphics card for every FPS it could get.

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