(2009-02-10) E15

Imagine navigating an internet where the content maintained a degree of spatial relevance. E15 is a platform that enables end users to experience this internet, an internet beyond the browser... At its core, E15 is a dynamic texture engine. E15 generates and manages textures (2D images in a 3D context). These textures can be either static (images, rendered web pages, text) or dynamic (procedurally generated 2D graphics using apple's Quartz2 D API). An embedded Python interpreter is used to run scripts that generate these textures. The textures can then be sent through an image processing/filtering engine, which allows the cumulative application of custom image filters to the textures generated by the script. The result is a powerful 3D environment where both static and dynamic 2D content are easily generated and arranged. MediaLab project. Hmm the blog hasn't been updated in 6 months...