Category Archives: Graphics

KINETIX

By Sam PL | Published: March 10, 2010
KINETIX is a colorful, fast-paced casual game that uses only a webcam for input.  A computer vision algorithm detects motion and alternatively rewards and punishes players for moving.  Originally conceptualized as a children’s toy to encourage physical activity, the game’s simplicity allows it to be be played by anyone, either alone, competitively, or collaboratively–with any [...]
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The LION 90.7fm Online

By Sam PL | Published: August 20, 2009
I created the site of the The LION 90.7fm, the Penn State student radio station, taking the site off of a Wordpress backend that was too simple for the needs of such a large organization and moving to a customized Drupal CMS installation.  The new site provides one place for intra-station communication, playlist posting, and public [...]
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Audacity theme

By Sam PL | Published: November 10, 2008
Audacity is a great, simple, open-source audio editing software utility.  The interface needs a little work, though–everything is functional, it just looks a little stale. Audacity’s 1.3.3 beta release included preliminary support for skinning, which allowed users to modify the interface graphics.  I created a partial theme with a significant icon update and submitted it to [...]
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wConnect Facebook Application

By Sam PL | Published: September 1, 2008
During the summer of 2008 I worked with in the Computer Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab at PSU’s School of IST.  My work focused on developing a facebook application for wConnect, a social alliance of women in information technology headed by Mary Beth Rosson, using PHP and the Facebook API. The project required careful handling of [...]
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Dawson’s Chess

By Sam PL | Published: February 2, 2008
I designed a new, dark visual interface for the ultra-simple Dawson’s Chess game. See if you can beat the computer–it’s harder than it looks. The code for the game is borrowed from Thomas Feguson, a professor of mathematics at UCLA. You can view the original version at his website here. Skills: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop
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The Action Sports Chart Challenge

By Sam PL | Published: January 31, 2008
Using skis on a hill covered in snow is ’skiing’, but riding a board on the same hill is ’snowboarding’. Pulling that board behind a boat on a lake is ‘wakeboarding’, but if you switch back to skis, you’re ‘waterskiing’. Interesting… So as an information visualization exercise, I made a chart of every extreme sport I [...]
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Radio Embeddable Player Interface

By Sam PL | Published: January 31, 2008
I made some graphics for an embeddable flash player for The LION 90.7fm.  See them action (or embed them!) on the LION’s website here.
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iPhone Medical App

By Sam PL | Published: November 29, 2007
I designed a few mockups for a medical iPhone application proposal for a Human-Computer Interaction course.  The application would provide doctors and nurses with up-to-the-minute patient information and alerts, replacing their current phones and pagers.
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