iPhone Location Data

For those of you who haven't yet heard, Apple are tracking your every move. As somebody who has nothing to hide ( hopefully ), I thought I'd share an experiment I'd carried out using some of my own location data and OpenHeatMap. Apple store triangulated data based on nearby cell masts and not based on GPS which is a slight shame because the accuracy isn't great. Here is a greatly speeded up video of my actions since December 2010.

Underwater Scene

Just created quite a nice little underwater scene, with bubbles and lighting. Just need to add some fish! I've been finding it quite relaxing just to watch. It is completely dynamically resizable just like the cloud background I made a few months ago. Click to launch it.

Nice Little Cloud Effect

Came up with a nice little moving cloud effect great for flash sites. The cloud texture was created using photoshop, and the Render -> Clouds, and Render -> Difference Clouds filters. Using the blur tool I created repeatable tiles then transferred the images into flash. The movie consists simply of two cloud images scrolling at different speeds, scales and transparencies. Another nice feature is that the movie is fully resizable up to almost any scale - within reason.

Just click the image to try it out!

3D Experiments - New Toy

I've been quite excited at the moment, playing around with my new toy Cinema 4d.

Here are some of of the first things I've made - click the images to run the videos. The first uses bullet physics and the second uses Cinema's hair plugin.

Enjoy!