Main Sequence http://mainsequenceblog.com music, science, experiments, etc. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:13:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 13 EXPLAINERS http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/13-explainers/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/13-explainers/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:12:36 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1429 Over the last year or so, I have been creating animated explainer videos for New Scientist. Here they are, presented in a lovely table.


























]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/13-explainers/feed/ 0 HOW WE BECAME HUMAN http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/how-we-became-human/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/how-we-became-human/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:53:44 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1426

Link to video at New Scientist.

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Link to video at New Scientist.

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Link to video at New Scientist.

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Link to video at New Scientist.

]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/supersymmetry/feed/ 0 NO SUCH THING AS NOTHING http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/no-such-thing-as-nothing/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/no-such-thing-as-nothing/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:45:00 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1413

Link to video on New Scientist.

]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/no-such-thing-as-nothing/feed/ 0 HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/how-to-build-a-time-machine/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/how-to-build-a-time-machine/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:41:36 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1409

Link to video on New Scientist.

]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2012/04/11/how-to-build-a-time-machine/feed/ 0 INTERACTIVE PROKARYOTE 2 http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/20/interactive_prokaryote_2/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/20/interactive_prokaryote_2/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:02:15 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1289 It started as a video. Then it was a Flash interactive. Now I’ve ported the good ‘ol prokaryote to HTML5/Canvas using Processing.js, which is rad. While I’m glad that this latest version is theoretically accessible on any modern device/browser, authoring this stuff is waaaaay more time consuming than doing it in Flash. Or maybe I’m doing it wrong?

Just mouse-over to see all the exploded view goodness…


And, for fun, here’s the prototype I made to do ‘sploded views:


]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/20/interactive_prokaryote_2/feed/ 0 INTERACTIVE PROKARYOTE http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/18/interactive-prokaryote/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/18/interactive-prokaryote/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:16:16 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1266 I recently did an experimental educational animation on everyone’s favorite group of microbes: prokaryotes.

That was a proof of concept video–I hoped to some day make interactive. Here’s progress toward that end. It’s not what you would call “rich” interaction, but hey, it’s getting there. It’s also still done in Flash…is there an intuitive way to do stuff like this in HTML5/Canvas/Javascript?

]]> http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/18/interactive-prokaryote/feed/ 1 CAN’T PLAY WITH MY YO-YO http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/14/cant-play-with-my-yo-yo/ http://mainsequenceblog.com/2011/10/14/cant-play-with-my-yo-yo/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:30:11 +0000 admin http://mainsequenceblog.com/?p=1248 Here’s another video featuring one of the songs from my first album. And I thought “walking the dog” was hard…

In honor of the occasion, I love this song:

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