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CameraConsciousness is a new-media art piece (implemented as a screen saver)
that taps into the collective digital
zeitgheist stored on our cameras. I developed this piece after
realizing that the photos on my camera (which I carry with me all day) at
any given time were a snapshot of what I had been thinking and doing
recently, and that it would be interesting to see what others were
doing as well, within the setting of a group environment.
Spectators become participants by plugging their cameras into one of
the supplied cables. At first nothing may happen; the software
randomly chooses one of the attached devices, then chooses randomly
one of the image files contained on that camera and displaying it.
As the exhibit continues, participants (and their memories) come and
go. No images are saved or stored, so when the exhibit ends, the
shared experience exists only in the minds of those present.
(It's also got a really nice Objective-C wrapper that I wrote
to portions of the ImageCapture API, that you can use to get digital camera data for your own applications). [Download]
CameraConsciousness was written by j. schrier and is released
under the GNU General Public
License. Source code
is available.
E X I F p l o t
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EXIFplot is a command line tool for
analysing EXIF tags in digital photos and binning them so that you can see
how many photos you've taken in a given time interval. It should compile
on any *nix system, but OS X binaries are included for the lazy.
There are some sample images with the
command options that created them online.
Download. (I've been playing with this
quite a bit lately, especially using k-means and k-medians clustering
algorithms and html-based calendar displays; perhaps I'll release some
of this soon.)
EXIFplot was written by
j. schrier out of pure curiosity
about developing digital biographical tools, and is released into the
public domain. I don't use iPhoto, but it might make a cool plug-in
for someone else to write. EXIFplot uses
the EXIF manipulation code from
Matthias Wandel's excellent
program jhead.
(Speaking of computational biography, I also recommed
ComStats by
the Institute of the Future,
which is essentially the same idea as EXIFplot, but for Email and Chat instead of JPEG pictures, and with a nice OS X user interface. Very cool indeed!
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Dubious software for OS X 10.n (n <=3)
Below are some old programs I wrote for OS X 10.public_beta, 10.1, and 10.2. Some of them even continued working for OS X 10.3, but really due to no efforts of my own. Furthermore, I have no interest in making them work with later versions. However, I am leaving them online for whatever small historical interest people may have. PLEASE do NOT contact me complaining if these do not work.
A m I A S c r e e n S a v e r O r N o t
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AmIAScreenSaverOrNot is a screen saver
that pulls images off of the "Am I Hot Or Not" (Hot Or Not) web site for your amusement.
(You probably want some kind of broadband connection otherwise it will
be pretty slow.) Version 1.1.1 adds an "offline" feature which shows
previously downloaded pictures when your machine is not able to go
online, and Japanese localization by Takehiko Hatatani.
Update: Works fine with OS X 10.3, however the Hot or Not website has
changed the protocol for selecting pictures. I'm not interested enough to reverse engineer it. This means that AmIAScreenSaverOrNot will only work if you choose "men and women of any age" from the Options panel.
Download.
AmIAScreenSaverOrNot was written by
j. schrier, after a screen-saver
brainstorming session with some friends, and is released under the
GNU General Public
License. Source code
is available. Swedish localization by
Joel Arvidsson and Japanese
localization by
Takehiko
Hatatani.
(I also have to say that I am impressed with
Am-I-Hot-Or-Not: Party Edition released by
the Institute of the Future.)
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s w a p c o p
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I have a larger hard-drive). You can download the source for the
previous (10.1 compatible only) version as
well as for the (guts incomplete, but GUI very nice)
unreleased version from here. I have
handed over maintenance and any possible future development to the
SwapSwapVM folks (including all
the source code), so give them your money and support. Or feel free to take a short at it youself, since all of the
source is
GPL, and it has
some nice examples on how to use the Security Framework and make
Preference Panes, as well as call command-line scripts. If you make
something out of it,
let me know, and I'll put in a link
to your site from here.
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