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<body> <p lang="en"> <h1><font size="7" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mptheunissen combines computer programming with Art and Graphic Design. This combination brings about a whole range of design methods and new software extensions. Scripted algorithms intergrated within the formation of behaviour models gives a wide infinite range of design visualisations. This website has documented a view of the projects where Mptheunissen works on. By pressing the "Refresh" button in your browser the page will be regenerated into other compositions and contents. Click "Next Project" in the site navigation to go to an other project.</font></h1> <h1><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mptheunissen combineert computer programmeren met Kunst en Grafisch ontwerpen. Deze gecombineerde werkwijze brengt een breed aantal ontwerpmethodes en nieuwe software extensisies met zich mee. Gescripte algorithmes ge�ntergreerd in de samengestelde gedragsmodellen zorgen voor een oneindige variatie van ontwerp visualisaties. Deze website is een documentatie van een aantal projecten waar Mptheunissen aan werkt. Door op de "Refresh" knop in uw Browser te drukken, onstaan er nieuwe composities andere inhouds variaties. Klik op "Next Project" van de site navigatie om naar een ander project te gaan.</font></h1> <h1><br> <font size="7" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marco Theunissen</font> </h1> <span class="andale20"></span><span class="andale20"> Yes, </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">This movie</a></span><span class="andale20"></span><span class="andale20"> is made about on of the most influential fonts of modern typography. This year it's the 50th birthday.<br><br> "Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day."</span><br> <span class="andale20">Most of us all know the famous </span><span class="andaleRood20"> <a href="http://www.rubiks.com/" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">Rubik's cube puzzle </a></span><span class="andale20"> from back in the 1980's. Personally I always liked the aesthetics of this toy and the bright color patterns which emerged more, than to play with it. Now a view developers have created a virtual </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">5 dimensional Rubik's cube</a></span><span class="andale20"> and it's still solveable! <br> <br> For beginners there's also a </span> <span class="andale20">During PROMO (31 may, 25 june) Mptheunissen has a show at </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.np3.nu" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">Np3 </a></span><span class="andale20"> in Groningen. Free work and graphic concepts will be shown and demonstrated. At 12 june a weblog starts to be published at </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.design.nl" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">Design.nl</a> </span><span class="andale20">, the website portal of </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.premsela.org/home" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">Premsela, Dutch design foundation</a> </span><span class="andale20">. More updates about the PROMO project will also be posed on this weblog. </span> <span class="andale20">On Jan. 14, 2005 the </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Cassini-Huygens/index.html" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">Huygens space probe </a></span><span class="andale20">landed on Titan, a large moon of the ringed planet Saturnus. The Huygens probe, stuffed with a wide range of sensors and cameras, collected a huge amount of data during it's final descent. A team of scientists of the University of Arizona visualized this journey in </span><span class="andaleRood20"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08117" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">this intreging movie </a></span><span class="andale20">of graphics, sounds and images from Titan's outer atmosphere till the rocks on it's surface. </span> <span class="andaleBold">03</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">05</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ B&W_CMYK_RGB-SHIRT</span><br> <span class="andale20">Clothes makes the man. The clothes your wear reflects for a considerable part your identity. By placing this image of the three color schemes used in the Graphic Communications Industry, the shirt will be recognized by a specific group of Graphic Designers.<br> <br> More images</span> <span class="andaleBold">05</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">05</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ INTERPLANETARY INFORMATION GRAPHICS</span><br> <span class="andale20">On Jan. 14, 2005 the Huygens space probe landed on Titan, a large moon of the ringed planet Saturnus. The Huygens probe, stuffed with a wide range of sensors and cameras, collected a huge amount of data during it's final descent. A team of scientists of the University of Arizona visualized this journey in this intreging movie of graphics, sounds and images from Titan's outer atmosphere till the sand grains on it's surface. <br><br></span><span class="andaleRood20">></span><span class="andale20"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08117" target="_new" class="andale20">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08117</a></span> </span> <span class="andaleBold">19</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING PART 2_VECTOR OBJECTS</span><br> <span class="andale20">Here's the result of the Gaussian Smoothing algorithm. This script is similar like the Photoshop Gaussian Blur filter but works on Vector objects in Illustrator. The color info of every object is transferred and smoothed out to the surrounding objects. The shape can be altered (circles in example beneath) and color appearance to gradients, brushes or symbol libraries.<br> <br> More images</span><br><span class="andaleRood20">> </span><span class="andale20"><a href="http://mptheunissen.nl/gaussian_smoothing.php" target="_self" class="andale20"> Gaussian smoothing images</a></span> <br><br><span class="andale20">This is the reference page </span><br> <span class="andaleRood20">> </span><span class="andale20"><a href="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/gsmooth.html" target="_new" class="andale20"> http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/gsmooth.html</a></span> </span> <span class="andaleBold">16</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ DUNNY"S</span><br> <span class="andale20">In 2004 a new vinyl action figure toy was launched by Kidrobot. At the opening show in New York a group of 50 well known Graphic & Graffiti artists from all over the world made their own styled and custom made 20 inch (0,5 meter) Dunny toys. See (</span> <a href="http://www.kidrobot.com/dunnyshow.html" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">>> </a><span class="andale20">) The Dunny Opening Show in New York. <br> Quik an all over the world renowned graffiti artist from New York, who now lives in The Netherlands was among this group of 50 artists. In may 2005 Mptheunissen & Quik organized a Dunny Design Contest Workshop at the Mondriaan highschool in Groningen, The Netherlands. The Dunny's created in this workshop were wonderful and the kids had a lot of fun by making them. An overview of workshop. </span> <a href="http:// " target="_new" class="andaleRood20"> >> </a><span class="andale20"> <br> <br> During the process of organizing the workshop Mptheunissen contributed the Light-Dunny to the popular Dunny family.<a href="light-dunny.php" target="_self" class="andaleRood20"> >> </a><span class="andale20"> <br> <br> See the official Kidrobot site for all the other Dunny toys. <br> </span><span class="andaleRood20">> </span><span class="andale20"><a href="http://www.kidrobot.com/" target="_new" class="andale20"> http://www.kidrobot.com/</a><br> <p><img src="images/Blog/dunny_posters.jpg" width="566" height="210"></p></span><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">12</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ LEGO DIFFERENCE ENGINE</span><br> <span class="andale20">Charles Babbage's (1791-1871, English mathematician, engineer and computer scientist avant la lettre) "Difference Engine" was at the time when it was invented impossible to build because of the level of technology for making the detailed mechanical parts, was not existing yet. <br>The "Difference Engine" was one of the first freely programmable machines like a computer and was able to solve polynomial (adding, subtracting and multiplication) equations. <br><br>Andrew Carol build a fully working Difference Engine out of Lego. Mr Babbage would be amazed that nowadays you can make his at the time unconstructable machine from children's toys. <br> Here's Andrew Carol's website with a complete description of his Lego "Difference Engine. The images of this machine are fascinating, especially when you used to make things out of Lego yourself. <a href="http://acarol.woz.org/" target="_new" class="andaleRood20"> >> </a><span class="andaleGrijs20"><br> <br><p><img src="images/Blog/babage_lego.jpg" width="566" height="210"></p> <p><span class="andaleGrijs"></span><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">10</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ OPTIMUS PRIME FOR REAL!</span><br> <span class="andale20">In Japan a few students developed a real working demonstration model of a wheeled vehicle transforming into a robot and back again. The concept is based on the popular series Transformers (</span> <a href="http://www.atari.com/transformers" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">>> </a><span class="andale20"> ) from the eighties. This will be spectacular if they put these machines in the robotwar shows!<br> <br> A movie of this real transformer. </span> <a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/wr-07-a-real-transformer" target="_new" class="andaleRood20">>></a><br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">08</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING</span><br> <span class="andale20">Before applying the edge detection procedure the image has to be free from noise. Image noise are random speckles on an otherwise smooth surface area. The image looks grainy like a bad analogue picture taken without good lighting conditions. These grains will withhold a good edge detection function. By first smoothing out the whole image, the noise problems will be solved. <br>There are different ways of doing this but the one which gives most of the times the best result is Gaussian blurring. <br><br>Gaussian blur is named to the 18'th century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss developed mathematics that describes the coordinates of bell shaped curves. <br>By using these curves mathematics the blur will give very smooth and subtile transitions between every single pixel. <br> <br> The results are here. </span><span class="andaleRood20">>></span> <span class="andale20"></span><br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">02</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ SHAPE RECOGNITION PART 1</span><br> <span class="andale20">To identify areas in an image with the same color, saturation or lightness there's the need for some kind of shape recognition function. <br><br>A lot of my graphic work consists out of research and new ways of screening methods, conversions from bitmap to vector and vice versa. <br>Till so far my screenings are based on a direct translation from each pixel object to one or more vector objects. To overcome this limitation there's to be some search procedure of grouping pixels with the same characteristics. <br>To do this is to use an edge detection algorithm. Edge detection will find and mark the borders between sudden changes in the pixel color. </span><span class="andale20"></span><br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">22</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">01</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ THYPE SCREENING</span><br> <span class="andale20">Building images out of type has got a long history in the modern Graphic Design. <br>Beginning with "The Scarecrow" by Schwitters and Van Doesburg in 1925 to the Ascii Art images made on computers. Typography - as of course itself already is an image - combined and used as building blocks of an image will, in most cases achieve aesthetic results. <br><br>Projects Mptheunissen used Ascii Art are Lprint (full color Ascii-screening on Dot-matrix printers) and Automailer. <br><br>A shortcoming of converting an image to Ascii-art, is that the chosen collection of typographical signs are based on the weight of those signs and have no textual meaning. <br>To combine textual meaning with image features Mptheunissen created a script able to blend images into large amounts of written text, ready to edit and print in most design programs.<br> <br></span><span class="andale20">In this (</span> <a href="thype_screening.php" target="_self" class="andaleRood20">>></a><span class="andale20"> ) example the icon of the open source internet browser Mozilla Firefox is blended into a descriptive text from Wikipedia.org. </span><br> <br> <span class="andaleRood20">></span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox" target="_NEW" class="andale20">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox</a> </span> <p><img src="images/Blog/firefox.gif" width="566" height="210"></p> <p><span class="andale20"></span><span class="andaleBold"></span><br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">10</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">01</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ APPLE GOES INTEL</span><br> <span class="andale20">Last summer Apple surprised everybody with the announcement that Intel Cpu's would be used in their new generation of computers. <br>Yesterday it finally happened. A brand new line of Powerbooks.... oh ehh no, they called MacBook Pro's in this new Intel era, and iMac's are introduced by MC Jobs at the Keynote in San Francisco. I can't wait to test and see them at the local Apple Centre. This is right on time because I was beginning to wander that the immensly popular Ipod was the only thing, Apple thought about.<br><br> </span><span class="andaleRood20">> </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/" target="_new" class="andale20">Apple.com</a> <br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">08</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">01</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ SCAN GRAPHICS WITH YOUR OPTICAL MOUSE</span><br> <span class="andale20">Sometimes people get bored. If that happens and you're a student of the technical university of Twente, what else is there to do then, opening up your mouse and turn it into a "ghetto b&w handscanner". <br>Although a good example of some creative hacker techniques, you can get some serious RSI complaints.<br> <br> </span><span class="andaleRood20">></span><span class="andale20"><a href="http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/%7Ejeroen/projects/mouseeye/" target="_new" class="andale20">http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/mouseeye/</a></span> </span><br><br><br> <span class="andaleBold">04</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">01</span><span class="andaleGrijs">/</span><span class="andaleBold">2006 </span><span class="andaleRood">/ RANDOM FRAMESETS ENGINE</span><br> <span class="andale20">After a few months online mptheunissen changes the appearance of the work documentation into a more suitable concept. <br>Instead of static hardcoded html/php webpages a dynamic frame engine driven by a php visualizes randomly generated framesets in Html. <br>The also randomly generated webpages inside are placed in various order and are forming unexpected cobinations of the content. The frameset script is still in progress. <br> <br> Here's a preview. Press the "Refresh" button in your browser to form a new frameset.<br><br></span><span class="andaleRood20">> </span> <span class="andale20"><a href="http://www.mptheunissen.nl/random_fr_Testvar_11.php" target="_new" class="andale20">http://www.mptheunissen.nl/random_fr_Testvar_11.php</a></span></p> </p> </p> </body>