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ShredBoard is an instrument that usees the conventional keyboard and mouse as input. The keys z-/, a-’, q-] and 1-= are mapped to the notes of four guitar strings starting at E, A, D, G for each row of keys. The mouse is mapped to be used as an effect pedal. There are 2 effects – one that is sort of clean and the second which is distorted. Parameters can be adjust with 3 knobs to produce different tones.

The software is written in AS3 and exported as an AIR application. The sounds are produced in SuperCollider by sending OSC messages via flosc. I had to hack the flosc AS3 classes to send the desired messages to SuperCollider.

Files:

• AIR Application
• shredboard source
• SuperCollider file
• You’ll need to install SuperCollider and flosc before running this application.

Tagged as AIR, AS3, audio, Flash, flosc, musical instrument, osc, sound, supercollider + Categorized as @Parsons, AS3, Development, @Parsons, Spring10, Dynamic Interfaces, Flash, @Parsons, Spring10

TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter. Nick and me worked on this project for our data visualization class and my AS3 class.

The New York Times Newswire API is used to load news for the last 24 hours. The title and URL for the retrieved articles are used to search for tweets with the BackTweets API, a BackType service.

The articles are placed around the center arranged clockwise based on the time they were published. The tweets for each article emanate from the article near the center to the outside. These are based on the time difference between when the article was published and when it was tweeted. The 24 rings indicate the hour difference from 1 near the center to 24 near the outside.

Data was collected between November 13, 2009 and February 9, 2010 via a cron job set up to pull and store the data locally. The current database is 107 MB, with 15,327 NYTimes articles and 311,885 tweets for those articles.

Demo

Presentation:

Categorized as AS3, @Parsons, Fall09, Dataviz, @Parsons, Fall09, Flash, Fun Experiments, @Parsons, Fall09, Web Media 2

A few weeks back Nick Hardeman and me collaborated on an AS3 project that used the BackTweets API. We needed to retrieve tweets that included shortened URL’s for NY Times articles URL’s. BackTweet did this perfectly! Check out the instructions and source on Nick’s blog, hopefully someone will find this useful.

Categorized as AS3, Development, Flash