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Stitching Story Threads Into Alpha’s Adventures
Introducing continuity into Zeta Comic Generator with “Series” and “Notes“ Ever since I began sketching Alpha Zeta, the lanky four‑foot‑tall Reticulan, I’ve wanted his adventures to be an ongoing web‑comic. My biggest obstacle was building story momentum. Plot threads dissolved after one strip, inside jokes never evolved, and Alpha’s personality morphed like a glitchy holodeck. […]
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Zeta Comics: Blending AI & Art in Digital Stories
Discover Zeta Comic Generator, where AI meets art to create dynamic comic strips. Explore how GPT scripts and Dall-E backgrounds merge with hand-drawn characters for unique storytelling.
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How To Build An NFT Website
View and Mint Non-Fungible Tokens in an Ethereum smart contract with Web3 JavaScript
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How I set up my own Google Music alternative.
Google Music is about to shut down, so I set out to roll my own alternative. Apmache offered me an easy, customizable, solution that fit my needs perfectly.
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HTML5 Game Development with Phaser
Game development for the web can be challenging. The Phaser framework offers a complete API for developing <canvas> games in a straightforward and well organized environment. In this article we’ll look at the core features of phaser and use them to create a clone of the classic nintendo arcade game “Mario Bros.”
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ARcostume: A Progressive Web App
ARcostume isn’t unique in placing AR widgets over your body. But it moves the starting point of Augmented Reality from an app, to something physical you wear. It’s something you can talk about immediately and show people with just one instruction: “Scan the QR code”.
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nod.js
Google’s Cardboard viewer standard has no standard control scheme. This is what led me to write nod.js, a simple gesture based event system for Google Cardboard enabled web apps. It uses device accelerometers to detect a sharp motion in one of four directions: up, down, left and right. With nod.js you can implement actions such as next, previous, confirm and cancel without the need for an external controller.
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Predator Vision
A recent project I worked on involved a thermal camera. At first it wasn’t clear whether or not we would be able to wire it into a web app. I decided to create a few alternative prototypes to fall back on, one of which involved motion detection. Anything moving is likely to produce heat. The effect works by capturing two frames, 3 seconds apart, from the live video feed. Even someone holding still to pose for the camera moves a little. Cheating, for sure, but the effect works really well.
