Pretty Cool Art Web Apps

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Aviary

Checked out their Phoenix image editor and Raven vector editor. Nice features, snappy enough. On Amazon S3 (powerful, redundant across multiple cloud datacenters). Impressive gallery of stuff done, some pretty cool trick stuff.

Will have to try out their other stuff other time. So far, so good.

Oh, and it's free. Well, with free, your files are public ( you retain exclusive rights to them, as source they are not editable by public, although they are subject to usage in derivatives {with the derived art citing you as the source creator} ). However, for $20/year, you can make them not publically available, i.e., private, or editable by whitelisted contacts, etc, etc.

Oh, earlier demo'd stealth web-based CADCAM where stuff processed on commercially hosted paralleled multi-processor computers, with some client-side applets interfacing/whatever. Now, of course, I just uploaded a massive dataset to avoid the massive amount of manually building a dataset (involving a lot of modeling). Blew me out - Buffered preview rendered in seconds - The time was probably mostly in HTTP negotiations, buffer, and browser render. With GBs / the-inevitable-someday TBs of core RAM, this is the way to go for heavy lifting. Now, stuff like Intel's 48-core chip with each core discretely programmable, is the stuff of today - Tomorrow, that kind of processing power will be a commodity chip in a multi-processor supercomputer in a parallel processing grid.

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We're attempting to use the Amazon cloud for some heavy computation on large datasets but the human part keeps getting in the way. Not Amazon but on our end setting up the pipelines. The pipeline keeps changing so no one wants to set it in stone and upload it into the cloud.