admin

ColRD: Color Extractor

UPDATE: Renamed to Image DNA and released as a Chrome Extension, read more. I spent last weekend working on a color palette extractor in HTML5. These examples illustrate automatically picked 7-color and the 90-color palette to represent the image. Although the results are organized by the color popularity within the palette, colors that don’t show up much are

Orange Honey; Epilogue

The past four years (2007-2011) much of my energy and capital has been focused into building the Mugtug graphics suite; Sketchpad, Darkroom and Lightbox. The suite has come a long way since I developed Sketchpad during a seven month work binge of Red-Bulls!  Through the collaboration of many developers we’ve moved forwards to create an entire

Portlandia Foods: Locations

It’s been an exciting year at Portlandia Foods.  In the past six-months we’ve gone from an idea, to a product that can be found in local stores, coops, restaurants, and public works.  Alberta Coop even featured us in a great article covering a short history of Ketchup, and how to make killer BBQ-sauce!  A big “Thank

global Composite Operation

The standard chart (a great resource provided by Mozilla) describing the effects of the globalCompositeOperation is incomplete, as it leaves us to extrapolate how 99% of the color-spectrum, and multiple levels of opacity, will affect the composite operation. The following chart allows you to see what the globalCompositeOperation’s is doing on a pixel-to-pixel basis. The source-image contains

HTML5: Typographic Effects

HTML5 Rocks is a website that helps inspire developers and teach how to implement those shiny new HTML5 features in real world examples. They recently asked me to write an article for their website. Working on a project for Google was inspiring (even if there was no pay involved)! … Neon Rainbow Jitter; … Sleek Zebra (inspired by WebDesignerWall);