July 2009
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Microsoft Local Impact Map (for Surface)
A couple of months ago we finished the Microsoft Local Impact Map, a Silverlight app highlighting all of the progressive and wonderful things Microsoft does around the world. Today we launched a new look at the same data, presented on Microsoft Surface.
Microsoft Local Impact Map: Surface Edition from Stimulant on Vimeo.
Aside from being a cool multi-touch, multi-user, 360-degree...
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Project Tuva Post-Mortem
Microsoft Research and Stimulant just launched the first version of Project Tuva, a platform for the delivery and study of classic lecture material. At launch, it features the legendary “Messenger Lectures on Physics” which were given by Prof. Richard Feynman at Cornell University in 1964, recorded by the BBC, and later purchased by Bill Gates.
The project was led by Curtis Wong...
WatchA video about Stimulant and our use of the Expression tools, with a focus on Mixr, the Silverlight Mobile app we made for MIX 08. This video was shot ages ago, but is just now online.
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Silverlight, Deep Zoom, and ScatterView
I worked on an image viewer for MSN that displays an arbitrary set of photos and lets you filter them based on attributes of each. LINQ is used heavily for the filtering logic. You can also drag, flip, and throw images with an experience that borrows heavily from Surface’s ScatterView component. When you select an image, Deep Zoom lets you get up close to the details. The first app to use...
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The current requirements aren't the only ones.
A big difference between the projects we do at Stimulant and those I’ve done previously is longevity. In game development (and in most of the Flash projects I’ve worked on, which are many), you ship the project and it’s unlikely that the code will ever be seen again. If you’re able to come back to a project after a day or a week and are still able to figure it out,...
