Write-ups on the things I build
Motion 6
Building InspectMy write-ups got a quieter frame. One column, figures on stages, and notes that point at things the way a browser's inspector does. Here is how the boxes keep up with a video, and how going back lands you where you left.
Drawing the revision cloudRedline circles its newest change in a red scalloped cloud, the way changes are marked on an engineering drawing. The whole cloud is one 36 pixel SVG and a border. Here is how it tiles, how it used to draw itself in, and why it now just fades.
Dice that sit on the feltTenzies went from flat squares to CSS cubes to real 3D dice in three.js. The hard part was not the 3D. It was making ten red dice look like they are lying on the same green table.
Four plates and a rock poolRiso Tide is a lab on my portfolio, a rock pool going through one tide, printed in four risograph inks. It is not a filter over a picture. It is four pictures, screened and pulled one at a time, twelve times a second.
Three rules for a rolling numberThe odometer roll in my portfolio labs looks like one animation. It is really three small rules, and each one fixes a bug you only see once you look for it. Switch them off below and watch it break.
Opening the caseMovieVault shows every film as a DVD case. Tapping one opens it in mid-air and flies it to the title page, and back does the whole thing in reverse. Here is how, and what went wrong on the way.