Morning quickies
John howard from bbc children online
cute tricks for fire/smoke
followed by paning 3d globe, missiles and popular tourist destinationa
Seb shows a cool visual audio sampler
andre michel shows tonfall - awesome quickness to impl. A visual seq.

Fresh air
nice refresher on the new bits in air2 and flash player10.1
just about the firest presentation that actually shows code behind examples, hurrah
melrose licen+e manager hosted solution is now on labs

data vis will change your life
of spatialkey fame
excel is your The Matrix; where is your spoon ?
Not new, maps 14k years ago, 324ya first non-geographic map (wind in ocean). 159ya pie charts on maps of france for cattle.
So 1st time for everything - the bar chat was incented ! 224ya
william playfair also did 1st line chart then. Took till 209ya to do pie chart
tree map only 19ya. Spark lines 6ya
shows horizon graph, 2ya
wow, at a glanceability for tens of stock prices over time. Lines wouldnt give you as much info in same space and youd have to display less. Even the huble line chart is evolving still
even heard the staff saying it was interesting as i left.

triangle affairs
wow, this session is ramed. Not a single spare seat, the staff have gone round and checked !
Metaball processing is very cpu intensive, so good place to explore optimisations. Naive impl is 20fps with 3 balls. Afterwards tens of them at 24+.
Withy filters and behavious can make slime, cells, ambeoba, water flow over image
shows how fp10 drawTriangles gives very quick effects 'filters' like drag to distort grid of image
ultimatly magnifing glass or photo in bottom of water tank
uses hair dryer to control plane deform via mic.
Adrunio board to register water gun hits on screen flash.
Then high perf. Fast defroming music reacting planes with some meta balls.
For some reminds me of owning an amiga and its demo scene !

Summer fridays
Why do interal proj. Fridays ?
Keep crew energised
learn new tech
innovate
revenue (!) If make iphone app for company, and it sells, give back to staff as cash, ps2 etc.
Smaller co., Cant do google 80/20 hard to find time so do as a sprint in the slack times, 2w max. As teams come of a project.
Worst thing is having to put something down to do another.
Not easy. Mixed results. Wont be doing again.
Crew members knew what to do in slack time
people got to work across teams
did finish some of them.
BUT
hard to maintain momentum as just as bitty
people got to work across teams
unrealistic to lock out clients frm Friday afternoon even if dodge monday deadlines.

The computational artifact
of etsy.com
cool computational graphics are in store it seems. Some slightly crazy guy who lives so far into the desert he has to walk to the internet eah day.
Context free design grammer and strucuresynth to create natural looking recursive shapes
omg he has a laser cutter in his garage
and gave away some unique laser cut engraved cubes