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Floating down a Tributary

All aboard! Prepare yourself for a voyage through parameter space as we embark on project Tributary! Tributary is a web interface for live and responsive visual coding. It includes a code editor and provides some popular javascript libraries for visual … Continue reading

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[dd3] d3.js selection tutorial

This weekend I made a video aimed at people just getting into d3. I use a super simple bar graph to illustrate the fundamental principle of selections with d3. At 13 minutes it’s a little over the 10 minute goal … Continue reading

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[RTPS] Fluid and Rigid body interaction

My buddy Andrew Young at FSU DSC has made some serious progress with RTPS! He’s implemented rigid bodies with particles and they can interact with the fluid. Watch the video and be amazed as a block of particles splashes, floats … Continue reading

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Square Circle Spiral Illusion in d3.js

Things have been pretty intense at work the last couple weeks, we are writing hella code (you can see I’ve begun acclimating to the west coast) and a lucky few people have begun using what we’re making! This weekend was … Continue reading

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Simple D3.js Bar Chart Webcast

So I’ve been diving head first into d3.js and I must say its a mighty fine library! I do feel like getting up to speed with it can take quite a bit of reading and playing, and now that I’ve … Continue reading

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Go west, young man

Now what I want you to do is visualize yourself… visualizing your data. Can you see it? Maybe you need some help? Fret not, I’m working on it! This week I moved from Florida to California to start work at … Continue reading

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[RTPS] Master’s Thesis Defense Presentation

Hello World! Today I became a computational science ninja master! Well, maybe not so much the ninja part, but my vim skills are starting to feel like Jedi powers. This morning I gave an hour long presentation on my work … Continue reading

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LBL Summer Research: Final Report

The summer months certainly fly by, especially when you are running in parallel… Anyway, the project has culminated in some working code and interesting test runs on the Longhorn visualization cluster. We are using some actual flow data sets, for … Continue reading

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The Software Patent Racket: What do we do?

This is an essay addressed to my colleagues, those who make software for fun and profit and those who enjoy all the benefits technology brings to our lives. A recent Forbes article contained an amazingly illustrative anecdote revealing the corruption … Continue reading

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LBL Summer Research: Report 2

So I’ve been up in the Berkeley hills for a few weeks now, coding by day and hacking by night. I’ve made some progress at work which I will detail here, which includes some things I’ve been wanting to do … Continue reading

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