{"id":3601,"date":"2005-12-11T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/let-it-snow\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:21:45","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/11\/let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7321,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gskinner.com\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/08\\\/flash_8_webcam.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131107063110\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gskinner.com\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/08\\\/flash_8_webcam.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gskinner.com\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2005\\\/08\\\/flash_8_webcam.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 11:51:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 06:24:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 06:24:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tdavids.com\\\/mac\\\/index.php\\\/archives\\\/20051211\\\/flash-snow-webcam-experiment&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090106153754\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tdavids.com\\\/mac\\\/index.php\\\/archives\\\/20051211\\\/flash-snow-webcam-experiment&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:13:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 16:21:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 11:51:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 11:51:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Heh &#8212; cool web toy of the moment (if you have a webcam &#8212; without a cam you can read about it and see the sample images, but the effect just won&#8217;t quite be the same): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gskinner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/flash_8_webcam.html\" title=\"gBlog: Flash 8: Webcam Snowstorm\">Webcam Snowstorm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This experiment simulates a snowfall with 400 snowflakes on screen, each with random size, rotation, speed and blur (using BlurFilter). Each of them is independently affected by wind (as partially controlled by your cursor&#8217;s x position). That Flash can run it all fluidly is impressive in itself, but of course there&#8217;s more. It&#8217;s also monitoring the webcam input, detecting edges, and making the snowflakes settle gently on any horizontal surface they encounter &#8211; pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>  If you don&#8217;t have a webcam, you can still see the snowfall, and I&#8217;ve appended a picture of it in action below. If you do, try playing around with it &#8211; one of the neatest things I think is to let some snow pile up on your head or shoulders and then brush it off with your hand&#8230; virtual dandruff!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on a Mac, you may need to tweak the Flash player settings a touch to get it to work. Right-click on the flash movie, choose &#8220;Settings&#8230;&#8221;, switch to the webcam tab (fourth along the bottom), and set it to a different video input (for my iSight, it ended up being &#8220;IIDC FireWire Video&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdavids.com\/mac\/index.php\/archives\/20051211\/flash-snow-webcam-experiment\/\" title=\"Mac Sightings from Windows Users: Flash snow webcam experiment\">TDavid<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh &#8212; cool web toy of the moment (if you have a web cam &#8212; without a cam you can read about it and see the sample images, but the effect just won&#8217;t quite be the same): Webcam Snowstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}