Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.
"XIMPEL is a free open-source platform to create interactive media applications. To this end, it uses the HTML5 standard, as well as the open XML description format. Using XIMPEL, it is possible to weave together video, audio, images and other media, thus creating interactive videos and other touch-based web applications. XIMPEL's modular approach allows for flexibility and extendibility."
The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL configuration file.
This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly" mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.
The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. There is one command per line that indicates what to do (skip/mute) and when to do it (using pts in seconds).
Powered entirely by HTML5 and open
source JavaScript libraries, One
Millionth Tower is loaded with photos and information
from all over the web, and exists in an online environment that is
about as close to three-dimensional as something on a flat screen
can get.
It exists
in a 3D setting made possible by a tool called three.js, which lets
viewers walk around the high-rise neighborhood. Moving through
allows viewers to see the current state of urban decay, then
activate elements to show ways the residents would change their
world, like an animation showing where a new playground or garden
would go.
The interactive movie is chock-full of photos from
Flickr, street-views from
Google Maps and changing environments fueled by real-time
weather data from Yahoo. Everything is triggered by Popcorn.js, which acts
like a conductor signaling which instruments play at what
times