Experiments

While I fully intend to publish a formal portfolio to the site in the (possibly distant) future, its absence does not mean I am not experimenting with new designs, programs, or applications. Thus is born the experiments section in lieu of a portfolio. In this section, I will publish the often incomplete and very rough proofs of concept I've developed in the process of expanding my grasp of what can be done. Each experiment you'll find here is in a varying state of completion — some are doomed to eternally live in their purgatory of incompletion, some are only iterations towards a more refined product.

Recent Experiments

• Room Colors (Macromedia Flash — posted October 13, 2005)
  A friend of mine was trying to decide what color to paint some of the rooms in his house. I built this application very quickly to give him an interface within which he could see the results of different color combinations. This was a great experiment not only in Flash Development, but also in implementing a tool to aide in the decision-making process by supplementing visual memory and imagination.
• Ambigram (Graphic Design— posted October 13, 2005)
  Having learned of ambigrams and admired the work of Brett J. Gilbert for many days, I wanted to attempt to create one of my own. In this example, the graphic creates two distinct words (I admit, I used my name and my fiancée's name as source words for the design — who knows? We might use this graphic in our wedding invites somehow) depending on whether you look at it right-side up or up-side down.
• Currency Tracker (Macromedia Flash — posted October 13, 2005)
  I developed this application last Fall when I was studying in Paris. I had an urgent need, then, to keep track of what the dollar was doing verses the Euro, and in anticipation of studying in Tokyo this summer, I went ahead and developed a Flash web tool for monitoring those two currencies against the dollar. The underlying processes that supplied the data for these charts is no longer running, but I can show what the interface looked like up until I shut down the background processes on August 31, 2005.