Link to video on New Scientist.

Link to video on New Scientist.

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:

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?

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: