Tag: Movie


  • Alfalfa Cam

    As Martine was sprouting some [wikipop]alfalfa[/wikipop] seeds I borrowed some to make a [wikipop]time-lapse[/wikipop] movie of their sprouting. You can watch the live updates on the Alfalfa Cam page as we capture individual images to build the time-lapse movie or just come back here:
    Alfalfa Cam

    Martine says “A watched alfalfa seed never sprouts”.


  • Painting patterns

    I watched a video by the late [wikipop]Benoit Mandelbrot[/wikipop] while the girls were busy painting

    [video:http://blog.duncanmoran.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/paintlapsekaleido1.mov|http://blog.duncanmoran.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/paintlapsekaleido.ogg|http://blog.duncanmoran.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/paintlapsekaleido1_conv.flv http://blog.duncanmoran.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/paintlapsemovie-poster.jpg 680 550]

  • Animating Dot

    The good people at Aardman have created a tiny animation using a Nokia phone and an adaptation of the CellScope technology originally created to give a microscope function to the phone’s camera for medical purposes.

    A dot model

    How they did it…

    The end result…

    Wow!


  • Itching to programme?

    Someone asked yesterday how to make sprites move up and down when using Scratch. I have not done anything with Scratch for a while so I was inspired to download the latest version and give it a whirl.

    Scratch logo
    Scratch logo

    Scratch was developed at the [W:MIT Media Lab] Lifelong Kindergarten (doesn’t that sound like a great place to work?) and it provides a simple drag & drop means of building a [W:Java applet]. These can uploaded to the Scratch website and shared with others.

    If Scratch is too basic for your needs then I can commend Greenfoot which is a step closer to proper Java programming. Another option is the RunRev’s RevMedia which uses an English like language. All of these options are free.

    Although there are a lot of examples with Scratch there still seems to be a need for an introduction to creating a simple game. So here it comes 🙂

    My infallible guide to Scratch page will answer some if not all of your questions.


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