The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

"I create stuff."

After the success with Illusions we started thinking of a new project, we wanted something more like a short film with a script and characters. It took several lunches before we came to the conclusion that we needed small animals that were easy to control, and didn't run away as soon as we started to film. The only animal that fitted that and that we could get hold of was snails. Hanes photographing The Real World while we're bringing some of it back in buckets So, off to my girlfriends parents [...]

I did get the opportunity to play with data from the PacketLogic machines that was deployed at DreamHack summer 2011. Basically we parsed a log containing a subset of all connections, extracted the outside IP (independent from if it was source or destination) and ran that through MaxMinds GeoIP API to get lon/lat. The data was mangled a bit and then fed to a website with an WebGL globe that showed the amount of connections as bars on the globe. You can see the globe "in action" in this [...]

There're was quite a lot questions about how the effects in Illusions was created. Some guessed that we created a new flow-dynamics algorithm others had even stranger ideas. So here's a quick post about the process that finally led us to the effects in the video. First, it's all real fluids that anyone has in the fridge, into ordinary cold water. Hanes looking at some of the footage while shooting in my kitchen. It all started with that we (that's me and Hannes) saw some videos of ink in water [...]

While I lived in an apartment and was stuck with getting internet via some one DOCSIS5 connection over damp cottonthread I grew more and more irritated that I didn't get the bandwidth i payed for. But, DATA > DOGMA, so created an experiment to collaborate my feelings. I started to ping the first router outside my own network every 30 seconds and record the RTT min, avg and max. At the same time I recorded the inbound and outbound bandwidth usage. To visualize the problem I started with filtering [...]

Just before DreamHack Summer 2011 Hannes "Hanes" Rahm and I sat down and talked about that it would be cool to actually submit something for the Wild-competition at DH which only was two weeks away. After a couple of hours brainstorm and research on Internet we had an idea, and Illusions is the result. This was the first Wild/Animation entry released at DreamHack by me and Hanes. Released under the group Zink-Interactive who by placing first both in 64-bit demo and combined demo previously [...]

After a discussion with a friend about how accurate yr.no was, compared to smhi.se, i set out to test it. DATA > DOGMA! I wrote a small perl-script that scraped the temperature predictions from yr.no and every hour and saved all the values. To have something to compare to I recorded the temperature outside my appartment window as well as scraped another temperature measured about 10km away from from temperatur.nu. Since yr.nu updates their forecasts several times a day i wanted also wanted to [...]

I was curious about statistics and network performance at DreamHack and wanted to get statistics for all of the user ports on the local network. There was no way a standard statefull program would be able to get the statistics for the hundreds of switches and thousands of ports on the network. So I created two simple python scripts. One that would spew out SNMP packets as fast as possible and one that would listen on incoming replies and print out the content on STDOUT. The sending script created [...]

I've attended all main Dreamhack events in some capacity (participant, crew, sponsor) since 1997. The first couple of years as a normal participant, starting in Borlänge and later in my home town Jönköping. When Dreamhack moved to Jönköping me and a friend got an idea of setting up webcams and streaming the buildup and event for everyone to see. This was well before Twitch or any other platform that made it easy to stream your own video so we had to invent most of it ourself, and use equipment we [...]