area CopyNight meeting

Sorry for the late notice, but tonight
is the first CopyNight meeting in Raleigh.

CopyNight in Raleigh

from http://www.copynight.org

“CopyNight is a monthly gathering of people interested
in ensuring freedom for artists and tinkerers, fostering
innovation, and restoring the balance between the public
interests and intellectual property rights holders for
the benefit of all.”

See http://www.copynight.org for more
details.

area CopyNight meeting

Sorry for the late notice, but tonight
is the first CopyNight meeting in Raleigh.

CopyNight in Raleigh

from http://www.copynight.org

“CopyNight is a monthly gathering of people interested
in ensuring freedom for artists and tinkerers, fostering
innovation, and restoring the balance between the public
interests and intellectual property rights holders for
the benefit of all.”

See http://www.copynight.org for more
details.

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screensaver ideas

Once upon a time, I wrote a screensaver for xscreensaver. So, though I’ve barely looked at xscreensaver code in years, I still occasional think about ideas for screensavers.

1. A “meta” screensaver. This would render any other screensavers into a texture, that would get texture mapped to some 3d object. You could even go recursive if you wanted.

2. A version of webcollage that would point at images sources that are Creative Commons. This would be pretty easy.

3. A fake road map generator. Just randomly create something that kind of looks like a streep map. City maps would be easiest, but highway style maps would be cool as well. Think google maps, but totally bogus.

4. “old growth”, a screensaver that would draw what looks like a cross section cut out of a old tree, and then label the rings with historical dates and info. Something sort like this.

screensaver ideas

Once upon a time, I wrote a screensaver for xscreensaver. So, though I’ve barely looked at xscreensaver code in years, I still occasional think about ideas for screensavers.

1. A “meta” screensaver. This would render any other screensavers into a texture, that would get texture mapped to some 3d object. You could even go recursive if you wanted.

2. A version of webcollage that would point at images sources that are Creative Commons. This would be pretty easy.

3. A fake road map generator. Just randomly create something that kind of looks like a streep map. City maps would be easiest, but highway style maps would be cool as well. Think google maps, but totally bogus.

4. “old growth”, a screensaver that would draw what looks like a cross section cut out of a old tree, and then label the rings with historical dates and info. Something sort like this.

[view at adrianlikins.com ]

doodles under creative commons

I’ve been on a free culture/creative commons/open source/etc kick recently. I am a huge fan of the idea.

So, I figured I should put up or shut up, so now, in addition to the Phasmatodea music[1], I’ve put my collection of doodles under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Enjoy.

[1] and, of course, a small but fairly widely used collection of open source code.

[view at adrianlikins.com ]