GeoKone.NET 0.97 Is Out! Includes Tutorial Video on How To Create Seed Of Life

New Version Live! Check it out at http://www.GeoKone.NET !

GeoKone 0.97b brings High Resolution exporting! Click on image to see Full Resolution version

Release Notes

I’m excited to announce the new version of GeoKone.NET today, with support for the following new major features (ChangeLog):

• High Resolution PNG Image Exporting! This allows GeoKone finally to be used seriously as a Graphic Design tool.
• Saving & Loading of GeoKone Scenes from our Server. This means you can save your scenes easily in one place and continue working on them later from anywhere. You need to register an account and login in order for this to work, the Sign Up link can be found on the front page.
• Many UI improvements, including Palette Container which allows easy selection of colors.

This release finally starts to resemble the vision I had about GeoKone about one year ago when I started to work seriously on GeoKone. I am happy to see this new release and hope that users like it as much as I do :)

There is still much work to do to reach the 1.0 version with all the features I have in mind, but it is getting closer and closer to actually becoming a realization. I want to thank all the people who have encouraged me to continue working on GeoKone and send thanks to all the people who have sent feedback, thank you! You keep me going :)

Tutorial on How To Create Seed Of Life with GeoKone

Along with this new release, I have made a video on how to create the classical Sacred Geometry Formation, Seed Of Life, With GeoKone:

For more information about Seed Of Life & Flower Of Life formations, see this excellent video by Charles Gilchrist :  Sacred Geometry 101D: Concentric Circles or Part 6 of the Excellent Spirit Science series :)

Want to Contribute ?

Sometimes developing for HTML5 as a platform feels like an endless swamp of hacks & tricks to get things working, so I am seriously looking into creating a Native Desktop/Mobile Device
version of GeoKone in the future.. Also, creating all the UI & Concept Designs, Client HTML, CSS & Javascript and the Server Python code has been a tremendous task, so if anyone out there wants to help, Please check out the GeoKone github project page:

https://github.com/inDigiNeous/GeoKone

Also, if you want to look at using GeoKone scenes in your C++/OpenGL project, here is a Work In Progress project for rendering GeoKone scenes realtime with OpenGL:

https://github.com/inDigiNeous/libgeokone

This one is really early in prototype stage though, but if you get it compiling (see README for how) there is an example rendering of GeoKone that is synced to audio. This would be the main purpose of this library for starters, to enable syncing of GeoKone scenes with audio in realtime and create some amazing visuals.

Contact me at <Sakari AT PsiTriAngle DOT Net> if you feel interested in contributing to this project. Any help is appreciated! :)

Now go to http://www.GeoKone.NET and start creating Sacred Geometry!

Linking Twitter to Facebook .. In Four Easy Steps, With Images!

I’m going to Show You In Four Easy Steps How-To Link Your Twitter Account to Facebook .. So  You Can Tweet on Twitter like a Crazy Social Person and see those Tweets Appear on Your Facebook Wall.

First Navigate to http://twitter.com/widgets/facebook and select:

Install Twitter in Facebook

After this Twitter will ask if you want to connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts.  This will install the Twitter Facebook application that acts as the gateway between your Tweets and your Facebook account.

Allow Twitter to Install the Facebook Application

Now you will be redirected to your Facebook account:

Check the Checkbox Titled Facebook Profile

This will show the next permission confirmation screen that is a standard part of Facebook permissions system:

Allow Twitter to Post On Your Wall

And voila, You Are Done! No more duplicate status updates! Yay! :)

Playing around w/ My Jew Harp and iPhone .. includes free audio editing tutorial! ;)

Hello guys and girls, I decided to write a complete blog entry using only my iPhone 3GS with Wi-Fi and a bluetooth keyboard paired to the device This has to do with the Jew Harp I just got yesterday. I’ve been playing around with it and throughout the day. It’s a pretty cool instrument! It also came with a cool carrying case made out of wood. Though this is not actually the first time testing a jew harp, a friend of mine has had one for a while now and I’ve had the change to try that out sometimes.

Rainbow Harp Of WaveBliss, +5 calmness, +2 smiles from outsiders, +33 trance inducing waves, +10 tongue control, +15 breathing .. only side effect is making people disappear after practising too long.

I ordered this from http://shop.nadishana.com/, they have a pretty nice variety of different cool and authentic hand made stuff. Here are a couple of sound samples, just learning here, fooling around :) Ugh ok, I can’t seem to be able to share the audio clips from iPhone to WordPress in any sensible way, so posting completely with iPhone seems to fail at this point.. But the photos and audio clips still both come from the iPhone. And this text also.

Anyway,

JewHarp Echoes

Ok, kinda bad but hey, I’m an Amateur :D

Creating the echoes

First I decreased the tempo with 16% to get a bit more bass and feel into the sound. Then I copied the master track, and  added some differently timed echoes to four copy tracks of  the clip. For the echo times I started from the master track with 1.6, then progressed to increase the echo times multiplied with 1.7 (~1.618, overly unaccurate approximation of Phi .. I was just playing around at this point) the previous track echo time to get a natural sounding harmonies when the echoes hit each other.

Echo tracks in Audacity

After doing this I thought about this more and did some Python code to get accurate Golden Ratio frequencies. This is what I came up with:

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 15:47:53)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin

>>> phi = (1 + math.sqrt(5)) / 2
>>> golden = lambda x: x * phi
>>> golden(1.6)
2.5888543819998322
>>> golden(_)
4.1888543819998327
>>> golden(_)
6.7777087639996649
>>> golden(_)
10.966563145999498
>>> golden(_)
17.744271909999163

With Python Interactive Interpreter, you can use the variable ‘_’ to point to the last answer. So this is what I’m going to use in the future instead of rude approximations, because remember that floating point roundings and conversions multiply as we go deeper and deeper to the bits when binary is converted to decimal format.