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Conway’s Game of Life Painted with Incoming Video (Core Image Tut) 6

Oct

31

2011

Combining Core Image and Core Graphics A few months ago I heard about this great app called Composite. This app lets you draw to the canvas using the video feed input as paint. It’s really quite cool and when I started learning about what Core Image could do I started to wonder if similar thing ...

Lightning in Corona

Oct

29

2011

My partner and I are working on putting together a new educational game project for the Department of Education at a University here. We are going to be creating a bunch of mini games each with a small academic objective. We needed a way to create cool lightning and we didn’t want to do it ...

Saving a Photo With AVFoundation and Core Image 1

Oct

26

2011

I promised in the comments a few days ago that I would post how one would go about saving a photo using the program I created in the last Core Image post. We’re already passing the video feed into a CIImage before we write it to the screen. All we need to do is take ...

Alphabet Zoo on 60 Minutes 1

Oct

24

2011

Our first app, Alphabet Zoo, was something we put together to teach kids letter sound association. Last night on 60 minutes, there was a story about iPads helping autistic kids, and a couple times in the program they are playing with Alphabet Zoo. Kind of awesome. At about 6 mintues in and again at the ...

Almost there, sort of . . .

Oct

22

2011

I have had a great week! If you’ve read some of my older posts you know that I used to work as a financial analyst at a Hospital. The job I had was a great job in the market that I’m in. The University is a large, stable organization with great benefits and I rarely ...

Getting Raw Video Data into My App Quick and Dirty 14

Oct

15

2011

I’ve been working with Core Image for iOS as part of a book project that I am involved in. I’m really excited about what Core Image can do and I’m eager to see what apps use this capability. However, I wanted to use Core Image to process input from the iPad 2 and iPhone’s camera. ...

The Grand Endeavor – Musings 1

Oct

14

2011

I’ve been thinking about the following: there’s something interesting about the struggle to accomplish a lofty goal. (To some the goal of running your own indie game studio may not seem that lofty, but it is to me.) Dealing with the anxiety that comes with uncertainty is an interesting problem. That’s kind of the root ...

I wrote a book!

Oct

12

2011

Well, sort of. I wrote a few chapters in the iOS5 by Tutorials book that’s the latest project from raywenderlich.com. I’ve spent the last couple months scouring the sparse documentation on Turn Based Gaming and Core Image filters. It has been a real stretch for me, as I’ve only been an iPhone programmer for a ...

Update on my Life – Full Time Indie

Sep

30

2011

Well, last I wrote about my career progression I was back at the Hospital. Well, my wife and I made a deal. I have until next May. She’ll continue at her job, there are some retirement benefits vesting and other career considerations to keep her there, I’ll stay at home and take care of the ...

Update: Back at Work, but things are a-simmerin’

Aug

5

2011

I have returned to my day job. It has been both not-so-bad and also very bad at the same time. Because I was gone for a little while, nothing was waiting for me when I got back. It has been pretty easy to go in each day. My work load is light. However, having had ...