https://www.johncannon.me/project/ Recent content in Projects on John Cannon Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020 John Cannon Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/tonandi/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/tonandi/ Tónandi is an interactive audio-visual exploration of the sounds and spirit of Sigur Rós in which use your hands and body to connect with a lush sensory ecosystem that grows and surrounds you transforming your environment. Built with Unity for Magic Leap 1. I was part of a small development team internally from prototypes through production. My part focused primarily on GPU simulations, rendering, and application performance but I was involved in many areas of the experience and collaborating with outside creative talent. https://www.johncannon.me/project/bully/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/bully/ An interactive web video for an Ad Council campaign Built in HTML5 and JavaScript. There are two animations that represent the “good” and “bad” timelines of a story. The user is able to interact with it by clicking/tapping to change the outcome of situations. Apple mandated that videos play in their fullscreen player which made it difficult to have the video transitions occur. I helped R&D alternative methods of rendering the video that worked around this limitation. https://www.johncannon.me/project/kelloggs/ Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/kelloggs/ Interactive experience/promotion for Kellogg’s cereal. Built with Unity 4, released on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire. Led inital development and interfaced with clients. https://www.johncannon.me/project/prince/ Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/prince/ An advergame for Mondelez International promoting their Prince brand of cookies. Infinite running platformer with character interstitials. Built with Unity 5. Released on iOS, Android, and web in European markets. I led development and interfaced with clients. I coordinated rigging and animation support for the characters being imported into Unity. https://www.johncannon.me/project/moonbeeps-hideseek/ Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/moonbeeps-hideseek/ A children’s game where you play hide and seek by searching a virtual world for hidden characters Built with Unity 5. Released on iOS, tvOS, Android, and Kindle Fire. I oversaw the development team and did some initial visual R&D. https://www.johncannon.me/project/moonbeeps-fireflies/ Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/moonbeeps-fireflies/ A digital toy that lets you wander around in a tranquil, stylistic forest and collect fireflies. Can also be used as a nightlight. Built with Unity 5, released on iOS, Google Play, and Kindle Fire. I developed visual techniques and oversaw the development team. For fun, I ported it to Oculus Rift for in-house demos. https://www.johncannon.me/project/autobot/ Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/autobot/ An in-house build server with over-the-air distribution for iOS and Android that combines the Jenkins CI server with custom build scripting and a web frontend for over-the-air distribution of iOS and Android binaries. I developed this as a way to provide easy access to up-to-date internal builds of all of our applications without developer intervention. This massively improved developer productivity and alleviated stress before performing releases as the build system could guarantee proper builds with correct settings. https://www.johncannon.me/project/lollipop3/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/lollipop3/ A wacky game like “finger Twister” with eggs and cute animals. Built with Unity 4, released on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire. I developed the original idea and prototype as part of a company game jam. The idea was to use multiple fingers in a Twister-like fashion to grab eggs falling from the top of the screen and hold them until they hatched. It evolved into a freemium game matched with one of our existing IPs. https://www.johncannon.me/project/chipotle-scarecrow/ Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/chipotle-scarecrow/ An advergame for Chipotle Mexican Grill that promotes conversation about food quality. Built with Unity 4, released on iOS. I led the development team and interfaced with the client. I implemented several game systems and visual techniques. The app and companion short film won several awards including 4 Webbys and 2 Daytime Emmys. https://www.johncannon.me/project/morris-imagnotron/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/morris-imagnotron/ An augmented reality companion for the Morris Lessmore book that brings the pages of the book to life and even reads it to kids. Built with Unity 4, released on iOS. I was the primary developer working closely with asset production to implement the interactions for each page. I also developed portal shaders to create virtual holes into the physical book. https://www.johncannon.me/project/numberlys/ Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/numberlys/ A Webby Award-winning app and an epic homage to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – but for kids. Built with Cocos2d with some custom video texture work, released on iOS. I developed much of the architecture and implemented several mini-games. I wrote a custom video-to-texture renderer for rendering high quality videos as part of the interactive components in the game. I also created tools to fix-up the alpha channel of images to enhance compression of files coming from the asset production pipeline. https://www.johncannon.me/project/ford-fusion/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/ford-fusion/ An interactive experience that was part of a marketing reveal for the redesigned 2013 Ford Fusion. Built with Unity 3, released on iOS and Android. I was one of two primary developers on the project dealing with most systems in the app. I also developed a few in-house Unity tools for managing import of course layouts from Maya. https://www.johncannon.me/project/treemap/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/treemap/ As part of one of my Master’s Degree programming projects at LSUS I attempted to use the SOM algorithm to enhance the TreeMap visualization. The idea was to arrange the constituent rectangles within a group based on their similarity. The problem proved very difficult, and despite efforts to improve the algorithm, the results were not better than a normal ordered TreeMap. (Manuscript) https://www.johncannon.me/project/stereo-visualiztions/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/stereo-visualiztions/ In our lab we had a stereoscopic projection system (via two projectors and polarizing filters). It was impressive at a time when 3D TVs and projectors practically didn’t exist yet. I developed OpenGL applications that work in stereo for visualizing the SOM layouts from the SOM algorithms. This enhanced the readability of the visualizations when the screen becomes cluttered with numerous objects. I also made stereo images with POV-Ray and converted them into videos. https://www.johncannon.me/project/smartjitter/ Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/smartjitter/ I worked on extending the work of Dr. Marjan Trutschl’s SmartJitter technique for intelligently resolving point occlusion to include other types of plots including 3D scatter plots and radviz plots. The basic idea is to eliminate overplotting of points who have the same values in the dimensions for which the plot was created (x and y for example), but still provide meaningful spatial relationship between the points through the use of a SOM. https://www.johncannon.me/project/r-som-visualization/ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/r-som-visualization/ Created a package for the R programming language that generates a visualization/plot of self-organizing maps showing disparity between nodes and the profiles of the weight vectors at each node in a meaningful way. It uses a physical simulation of charged particles bound to each other by springs to position the nodes in a color plane to give variation of color that is directly dependent on the similarity of the nodes to each other. https://www.johncannon.me/project/matroska/ Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.johncannon.me/project/matroska/ I moved to the Matroska project as a founding member when it split from the MCF project. I was involved in much of the discussion during the early stages of development of the Matroska container format. At the time I was most fluent with Java, and I wrote some basic classes to read the EBML file format which were later extended to support reading of Matroska files. I also wrote the original code to allow storing MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video in the container and this was incorporated into MKVMerge.