t1disasm
I’ve been using some free software tools (that’s open source, if you’re not keeping up with the lingo) on my eee pc to take apart font files. Or at least, I’ve been trying to. Tonight, I have finally managed it and can proudly present you with the disassembled code to draw a forward slash in Courier face:
/slash {
114 602 hsbw
20 callsubr
77 -13 rmoveto
307 661 rlineto
3 6 2 6 0 6 rrcurveto
19 -17 14 -18 vhcurveto
-20 0 -10 -14 -14 -29 rrcurveto
-305 -657 rlineto
-3 -7 -2 -7 0 -6 rrcurveto
-19 16 -15 18 vhcurveto
21 0 10 15 12 27 rrcurveto
closepath
endchar
} ND
Project prototype
Prototype time! You dial a (secret, for now) phone number, and you get to have a somewhat trippy conversation with yourself, across time and space. In case you’re wondering, it sounds a bit like this.
This little doodle shows how the technologies fit together; the arrows represent audio signal. This is mostly for my benefit, so as to avoid those nasty feedback noises.
The point of this prototype is to demonstrate how the ‘gaps’ that technology can introduce form a part of our experiences. By exaggerating the gap — in this case by using GarageBand to introduce a delay to the audio signal — I’m looking to play around in this space in between interface and experience.
Octalpus
The octalpus is very similar to the more common decimal octopus, the main difference being that it has 10 tentacles.
