If you’ve ever used Processing you’ve probably used the ‘map’ function. From the Processing Reference section it reads: “Re-maps a number from one range to another.”

I think this should go without saying, but not everyone knows how to do this. First I randomly downloaded a font from dafont.com to make sure that I would be using a font that 99% of people didn’t have. If you check out the Flash below you can see that the top text [...]

After seeing a post on the Puny Blog about displacement maps I became interested in how they did it. Unfortunately there wasn’t any source code so I’ve replicated the effect from scratch.
Turns out displacement maps are really hard to wrap your head around, so I’ll try to explain it very carefully and slowly.

I had been doing an interactive chess table using the ReacTable software, but that whole project was nothing but problems. It ended up needing more time and money than I had available. One day I’ll finish it…
This video is a test run of my new senior project. This goes back to my projects last semester [...]