Daily Serving

mmmmm. objects. These are quite cool, but the syntax is getting quite complex fairly quickly. I think if I do like 100 of these in a row, I’ll get it. Mr. unused genius tells me this is where all the cool javascript code hangs out and switch statements are basically useless.

On another note, Mr. Unused Genius and I went on a date to the IBM campus to visit Watson and hear more about their new endeavors to put Watson to work for them. I met one of the guys who works in the design team and he inspired me as to what I can do for actual projects for javascript once I’m done with tutorials. He told me about the use of Unity3D and processingJS to develop 3D “Iron Man” type interfaces. Here’s some of the clips from the movie.
http://youtu.be/mbj3XSvDyw8, http://youtu.be/-KPhqy7ZwHU, and http://youtu.be/wKyQhriOrD0

What was really crazy was that my thesis was based on motion graphic title sequences of film. However, as special effects in the movies has progressed, these same title effects houses have also been asked to produce these types of “interfaces” for the movies. This is one of the artists who created this (http://www.johnkoltai.com/IRON-MAN-2-User-Interface-Design) for this company: http://www.perceptionnyc.com/

Cool TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_patten_the_best_computer_interface_maybe_your_hands#t-225672

Google UI Engineer’s blog on UI in film

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/