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#Canvas 
Entries grouped under the canvas thread.
C.A.R.D.S. Project
I was recently asked to create artwork for the C.A.R.D.S. Project. Chris & John gave me no restrictions, and only one task: Create something interesting that fits on a 3.5 x 2.0 business card. For me, this was a dream pr...
ColRD: Image DNA
Exciting news on ColRD.com! Today we’re announcing the public beta of Image DNA, available exclusively on the Chrome Webstore. Image DNA is an application that aides you with intelligent extraction of colors from images....
Print-ready graphics in Canvas
Last month, I posted about the possibility of creating high resolution and print ready graphics in . Since then, it’s been in the back of my mind, but happened to be at Kinko’s today, and decided to take this experiment...
Bitwise Gems and other optimizations
One of my favorite posts in the last few years was Bitwise Gems in AS3 by Polygonal Labs , an article inspired by Bitwise Operations in C on Gamedev . This article is a summary of what I’ve learned, applied to Javascript...
Background Generator
I worked on a future release of BG a few months back, and am excited to share some screenshots! It’s exciting to be able to produce wallpapers for my Desktop in my Browser . Since creating these images, I’ve found that b...
Portlandia Foods: Uploader
At Portlandia Foods we’re excited to offer our customers the chance to have their photograph on Portland Ketchup bottles! Previewing what an image would look like is as simple as dragging and dropping a photograph from y...
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 on the Wayback Machine, and Lightbox. The suite has come a long way since I deve...
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...
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...
HTML5: Typographic Metrics
Typography support between browsers has a history of being spotty. One of the major hurdles in creating the ( yet to be released) next incarnation of Sketchpad was typographic support; between browsers and even within th...
Color Piano v1
UPDATE: There is a more recent post on Color Piano. Color Piano Theory (CPT) was inspired by an interest in building an educational application that utilizes colors in teaching piano theory . CPT ties together chords, sc...
ZenBG: Background Generator
Background Generator (BG) provides the ability to edit the background of any website in real time! To give you an idea, the backgrounds of the Journal, Photos, Projects, and Labs sections of Mudcu.be were created using B...
HTML5: Unicode Profiling Project
The Unicode Profiling Project was designed to gather statistics on unicode support across systems. The software checks each symbol in your systems Unicode catalog (65,535 glyphs) to see which are visible on your computer...
What can 1kb of Javascript do?
JS1k is challenge presented by Peter van der Zee to design the most creative use out of 1kb of Javascript. Many beautiful demos have been added in the first few days: mr. doob, hyperandroid, and antimatter. The challenge...