Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Type Slug

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Preview fonts before installing! Drag fonts onto the icon or into the list. See type with a customizable preview line and a full paragraph of text.

Type Slug was created for Mac OS X 10.2, before Font Book. It remains appealing for its simplicity.


Download Type Slug (Mac OS X 10.2+)

Magic Brain Lantern

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Magic Brain Lantern channels the collective conscious
Magic Brain Lantern is a test of singularity intelligence
Magic Brain Lantern is environmental background software
Magic Brain Lantern is available for iPhone and Mac OS X

magicbrainlantern.com

Vernacular

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

“Vernacular is an interactive software droid. It is an associate data processor whose function is to augment our use and understanding of the information culture in which we are immersed. We’re artists of the Star Wars generation. We grew up with cybernetic visions of a twenty-first century. Buck Rogers looked old school, our future was intelligent robots like R2D2 that did not merely respond, but transformed the data flow around us. Vernacular addresses the meta-language of ‘infomatix’. It is a software in which the associative patterns of one’s data is rendered in molecular form.”

Vernacular premiered at EAI in New York in April 2003. Vernacular was created in collaboration with Howard Goldkrand and Beth Coleman. The application and source are freely available for download. Vernacular is based on Craig Reynolds’ flocking algorithm and simple particle physics. It generates spatialized audio and OpenGL graphics. Vernacular requires Mac OS X 10.2.3 or above.

Vernacular at EAI
In collaboration with Soundlab | Cultural Alchemy

Download Vernacular (Mac OS X 10.2.3+) | Source