New version of the popular Processing software, developed by John Maeda’s ex-students Ben Fry and Casey Reas, has been released. It’s a step away from the previous naming convention as this one is not Beta - yes indeed - here’s v1.0. It brings us some new features, bug fixes and a slight interface touch-up.

I would post a link to their press release, but I can’t reach the site at the moment.

I wish you the very best with the future of development to come. Restecp.

I’ve put up the first batch of project on the projects page. I’ll do some sorts of categories when the list becomes too big. More to follow soon.

TinEye is a new web service for finding images, and what makes it different from Google Image Search is that it doesn’t look at the tags and keywords next to it: you must upload an image in order to find something similar.

There’s a video explaining it on the front page, but here’s how it works: it creates a “fingerprint” of your image based on the pixel structure. Then it compares it to the “fingerprint” database it already collected. This type of search allows for pattern recognition and incomplete matching, which in turn allows it to return even altered images as results. I don’t know does the algorithm works and probably will never too - just like Google - it’s a trade secret. But from the test results, this really works. And will probably continue to work even better as the “fingerprint” database grows and the algorithm gets refined.

Today I launhed my new Worpress driven site. I you want to see what was here for the last 4 years (!) you can visit www.gbut.com/gbut.

This version is still in works and some things need to bee fixed: delicious bookmarks are slowing up the load - I’ll have to cache them, and projects page is empty, design needs to bee tweaked a bit more … and I just realized the mess it makes in MSIE 5.5 and 6.0.

New stuff will follow soon so stay tuned.

Amazing performance by Eboman at 2008 Stranger Festival. It has everithing: live video manipulation, live video, live music, audience participation - and it is utterly cool.