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Relational Particle Concept

Gerben Robijn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:31:25 +0000

A couple months ago I got the assignment of thinking up conceptual way to represent lots of data that also would have certain relations with each other or being assigned to a group or something. What I came up with was a relational particle system.

What does it do in essence?
Well it represents every data item as a little particle and the particle will inherit some of the data properties. On the base of these properties relations with other particles are made when a single particle is selected. The particle that has a relation with the selected particle will be atracted to the selected particle and in this way form a group of related particles. The other particles that do not have a relation will try to keep away from the group.
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The Peach open movie project

Gerben Robijn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:29:00 +0000

It’s not going to be a habit to promote movies here but i’d like to point you to this one. It’s called big buck bunny to completly made with under a creative commons licence.

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Adobe Flash Video Event 27 March

Gerben Robijn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:22:31 +0000

Yesterday I went down to Amsterdam to join an Adobe event on flash video on behave of my employer TFE. Ofcourse it was all a marketing trick to promote adobe’s products but I must say it was quite oke! It started to impress me with the location for this event which was in a television studio which is used weekdays for talkshows based about recent events. I never have been to a tv studio before so it was pretty nice to see all that camera’s and lighting. And a part of the event was a presentation by Dutchview ( a tv show producer ) on how all the stuff works. All is digital. No more bad old tapes. They also showed us that it was possible to create a recap within a couple of minutes after a for example a live football broadcast. All due to this digital processing.
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FITC Amsterdam Sold Out

Gerben Robijn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:08:35 +0000

Two weeks in advance of its European debut, FITC has sold out its event in Amsterdam. FITC Amsterdam is scheduled for February 25 + February 26, 2008 at the Felix Meritis European Centre for Arts and Sciences. This is the first time that FITC, now in its seventh year, has ventured outside North America.

“Amsterdam has a reputation as a place for cool technology and hot design, which is one of the reasons why we chose it for our European debut,” says Shawn Pucknell, Founder of FITC and Executive Producer of FITC Amsterdam. “Now that the event has sold out well in advance, we’re confident in the choice we made.”
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Dutch Adobe user group: 10-10-2007 interactive video

Gerben Robijn — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:58:25 +0000

Today I went to the Dutch adobe user group meeting in Amsterdam. It was all about interactive video and stuff that has to do with it. A very interesting meeting and especially in the end an inspiring meeting. Before the break it was more a company commercial for NetMaster by Mark de Jong. It’s not really what I found necessary on this meeting. If I wanted this information I go look for it on the web. But never the less probably a good company for streaming servers and more. Waldo Smeets was also there telling us about flash media server 3 and adobe mediaplayer. These presentations where good as expected by Waldo but some disappointments here about FMS 3 not supporting building custom items to it and is just like FMS 2 it that way. What it has is an encrypted rtmp connection and better performance. But it looks to me like a 2.5 version instead of a 3 version. (to be honest this too could all be looked up at the web) (more…)

Best Flash- Flex- flipbook ever!

Gerben Robijn — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:05:25 +0000

Ruben Swieringa did a great job in developing this amazing flipbook. I am always frustrated when a company publishes their folder in a online flipbook version which never really works and is full of bugs. But Ruben has written a great product with lots of extra features like transparancy, hard covers and tear off pages. The book works and feels like a real book. You can turn the page by clicking somewhere on the whole side instead of only in the corner which is commonly used. The flips feels very natural and is almost glitch free and the performance is already very good.

I think this is the best digital flip book ever, you can forget all about the others!

Precise all the way

Gerben Robijn — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:31:58 +0000

I’ve been busy with Adobe after effects for a couple weeks now, but didn’t really have the time to go into it all the way. Well yesterday evening I tried and ended up with this result:

What I tried to do here is to create a fake commercial for the Apple iPhone simply because I needed a good subject. I have worked here with multiple compositions, time remaping, 3d layers and a couple effects. I’m pretty pleased with the result, although I know it’s not perfect. When you are working with AE you have to work very precise, something I lack a bit right know since I’m still in a learning fase and want to take as many assets of AE. The 3d effect when the programs are put on the iPhone could be much better if I was preciser.

Vote for Sumeco on may1reboot

Gerben Robijn — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:11:17 +0000

Since Maikel (flexcoders.nl) made the site for Sumeco a collegua of us and he is a bit behind on votes. So I ask you to please vote for Sumeco on May1Reboot. It deserves a better place then he is currently on. It’s better then the ones that are yet in the top 5. It’s beating them by usability and beauty in my opinion. A briljant example of a good flex application that is fast and not standard skinned!

So vote here now!!

Animation

Gerben Robijn — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:17:19 +0000

I’m building lots of applications in Adobe Flash and also flex these days, but the applications mostly consist of forms. Animating them creativily is a hell of a job because most of the time you end up with powerpoint animations. So the adobe live event website got me inspired to do some research in these animations. Although I am a programmer and favour programming animations, I favoured animating in the timeline for this type animating. It’s simple but it can take up a lot of your time. It is something I like to improve my skills in, because I think it gives a website a bit more wow-power.

This is the result I ended up with for now and it inspired Jaap to do something alike.