Author Archives: Justin Ribeiro

On the ground at SPAR International

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Justin Ribeiro

I’m in Houston this week, attending SPAR International, a conference centered around a different kind of 3D then what most people are familiar with. SPAR is all about 3D capture and processing, from laser scanners to photogrammetry. The datasets are … Continue reading →

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Stop SOPA and PIPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Justin Ribeiro

The Internet continues to go dark today, as sites make their positions known that H.R.3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act” and S.968 “PROTECT IP” will not only damage the Internet you know, but also the very ability to create products and … Continue reading →

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C-Cab night drive demo using WebGL and three.js

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

We’ve been working on a new WebGL based game that utilizes three.js as it’s core. You see a lot of demo’s with three.js, but you can also do things with it, like build games. While the game isn’t slated to … Continue reading →

Posted in CSS3, HTML5, three.js, WebGL | 2 Comments

Pulling data from Google+ stream, caching with PHP and displaying with jQuery

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

Just want to see the demo and code? See the demo! As a heavy user of Google Reader, the recent changes to the way links are shared within the app left me high and dry. I had been consuming the … Continue reading →

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At New Game Conference in San Francisco Nov 1-2

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

TeamStickman, represented by James Duvall and David Steele will be attending the New Game Conference the next two days in San Francisco. The conference, the only HTML5 game conference in North America, will focus on the HTML5 game development from … Continue reading →

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OnScreen keyboard implemented in HTML5 canvas with multitouch support via touch events API and Magictouch.js

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

Note: Just want to see the goods? the demo, the video. We’ve recently been building a few applications for PQ Labs multitouch overlays. It’s a very sweet piece of hardware offering 12 simultaneous touch points, a solid SDK, big sizes, … Continue reading →

Posted in animation, Chrome, Firefox, HTML5, multitouch | 1 Comment

Simple facial rigging utilizing morph targets powered by three.js

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

We’ve been working on a set of tools for creating web based WebGL animations, but since we’re not quite finished yet, we decided to release a demo of something fun. Meet Ginger. Ginger is a facial rig that utilizes 25 … Continue reading →

Posted in animation, Chrome, Firefox, three.js, WebGL | 12 Comments

Dealing with compromised WordPress blogs via the timthumb vulnerability

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

We’ve gotten a rash of calls today about WordPress weirdness. Malware redirects, login failures…slightly different in each case, but all having one thing in common: theme’s or plugins running older versions of timthumb. Earlier this month, it was widely reported … Continue reading →

Posted in shell, vulnerability, Wordpress | 3 Comments

A new office in Oakdale, CA

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

We pride ourselves on our organizational culture. Our team members and contractors decide where they want to work and are allowed to flourish. But after much discussion, a group of said members and contractors decided that time and distance were … Continue reading →

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Increasing transform speed in Chrome with transform-style and preserve-3d

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Justin Ribeiro

David and I were having some issues the other day getting a somewhat complicated set of CSS3 transforms working smoothly within Chrome. By default Chrome doesn’t have hardware acceleration turned on for 2D transforms. Subsequently things were choppy and very … Continue reading →

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