Open Call results: doodle your way to GDD
By
Phoebe Peronto, Developer Marketing Team On Tuesday, August
2, the Open Call HTML5 Challenge for Google Developer Day 2011 kicked off. With 2 weeks time
to turn around a submission, participants were asked to design and implement an original HTML5
doodle of the Google Developer day Dymaxion map, adding their own local twist. Doodles had to
be built using open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, etc.) and feature a theme locally relevant
to the participant’s GDD host country.
We received submissions from
eight countries around the world, which were then reviewed by panels of local HTML5 experts.
Overall, the judges were blown away by the creativity and innovation of the submissions. Top
entries were selected from each country based on technical execution, creativity, and cultural
theming. See below for the judges’ top picks, with descriptions in the creators' own words.
Some of the comments are in the creator's native language; for translations, use
Google Translate. To see a submission in
action, click its thumbnail image.
ArgentinaCreator: Diego Nul
How did you do it? Just used html5 canvas to do very simple game
functionality and transitions. The Dymaxion map turns into an Argentinian flag when the player
takes the sun into the map centre.
Creator: Carlos Olivera
How did you do it? I had to made a simple polygonal animation with
background music, so, I've used Raphael 1.5.2 - JavaScript Vector Library for loading and
display figures (SVG), and I've used jQuery with Runloop plugin for looping animation; the
result is an HTML5 based animation with so few lines of code. The background music is possible
with HTML5 <audio> element.
AustraliaCreator: Peter Finch
How did you do it? The doodle is created using a HTML5 2D canvas
element. The Dymaxion map is programmatically generated by subdividing the triangles in the
original map into smaller sub-triangles and then drawing all of them in different colours
based on a colour map representing the image to be drawn. The colour maps were generated using
a Java program that mapped the relative location of the triangle onto a target image and then
back onto the page colour map. The waves then merge the images, one on top of another, to
create the transition effect.
Creator: Brian McKenna
How did you do it? I imported the Dymaxion map to Blender and then
animated it to transform into the Opera House using "shape keys". The Dymaxion map, Opera
House, Southern Cross and stars all rendered using Three.js. Everything else rendered with
normal HTML5/CSS3.
Creator: Marko Vuksanovic
How did you do it? Doodle is a manipulation of the Dymaxion map using
HTML canvas element. Interactivity is achieved using native drag and drop events and
transitions. Animations are used to transition between the iconic landmarks of Sydney.
BrazilCreator: Bruno Barbosa
How did you do it? Minha ideia foi criar um jogo da memória com as
cartas contendo os principais topicos do Google Developer Day 2011. No jogo foi utilizado
tecnologias como HTML5, CSS3 e JAVASCRIPT.
Creator: Rogério Celestino
Santos
How did you do it? A idéia do jogo é fugir das outras
cidades que caem no cenário. Utilizei um código antigo que eu tinha de um jogo simples em html
ai então só adicionei as imagens. Fiz algumas mudanças. Mas ainda estou pensando em melhorias
como pegar aleatoriamente a imagem correspondente de cada cidade. Tratar imagem de colisão.
Poucas coisas ainda. Eu fiz isso hoje em 1 hora. O tempo que me restou.
Creator: Joao Henrique Cunha
Rangel
How did you do it? É um jogo de memorizar as cores do
Google. O que usei: Tags de audio HTML5, Geolocation para detectar o país do jogador, CSS3
para animar os pontos, CSS3 @font-face, CSS3 Cores gradiente e opacidade.
Creator: Miguel Antonio Silva
How did you do it? 3D objects and animations were created using the
program Blender. The movement of the pencils was detected and painted in a 2D canvas html5.
The canvas was used as texture for the 3D objects. For the 3D, the library used was Three.js,
and for the animations tween.js.
GermanyCreators: Kay Schneider, Misha
Matiyenko-Kupriyanov
Music: Hanno E. Allen
How did you do it? Split SVG Dymaxion map template into small png
pieces; position PNG pieces with CSS3 into HTML5 Dymaxion map; read wiki about Icosahedron;
reverse engineer positioning of Icosahedron faces in space with Google SketchUp; build 3d
icosahedron model with CSS3; Web Audio API Loading Sound via XHR in arraybuffer to play it via
the Web Audio API and visualise it on the DymaxionMap (zIndex of elements); canvas mapping;
triangle human pictures, using canvas clip(); using of the ecma5 script (forEach and much
more); triangle videos by applying SVG mask; Germanizing of the nyan cat by rainbow replacing
with German flag; nice fonts with Google Web Fonts.
Creator: Josep del Rio Herrera
How did you do it? The GDD's Dymaxion map is a icosahedron, and each
of the little triangles is the location of a GDD event; the doodle uses that icosahedron as
the second "o" for a Google doodle. Clicking on it will show the GDD logo and information for
the Berlin event. It uses a WebGL canvas to render the icosahedron and the Dymaxion map, and
overlays text over it using SVG and CSS3 animations.
Creator: Connor Bunting
How did you do it? Googlespiel is an interactive HTML glockenspiel. It
was built using inline SVG, HTML audio and jQuery. It can be played either by clicking on the
'keys' with the mouse or by using the keyboard. When Googlespiel loads it play Fur Elise by
Beethoven. The key sounds were created using Apple Logic Studio music software.
JapanCreator: Akira Takegahara
How did you do it?・「自分の国（日本）をアピールするものである」という課題であるため、文字は毛筆文字、（ベクター）画像は日本の水墨画を採用致しました。
・フォントや画像を含めて全てインラインSVGを使用しております。
ただし、クリエイティブ・コモンズの画像だけは提供されたラスター画像です。
webフォントは使用しておりません。
・提供頂いたOpenCallVisual.svgの画像を基に、文字がモーフィングのように変化致します。当然ながらjavascriptでギミックも実装しております。
・背景画像はラスター画像からSVGに変換して使用しております。
・開発ツールとしては特にAdobe
Edgeなどを使用しないで、テキストエディターで作成しております。
・フォント及び背景画像は著作権フリー・改変許可の素材を使用しています。
・三〇秒ぐらいは見て頂ければ幸いです。
Creator: Nanako SAWA
How did you do it? 1. SVGから座標情報を取得
2.
canvasで描画
3. 背景, アニメーションを追加
Creator: Shigeki Ohtsu
How did you do it? The title of this doodle is "Thank you the World
from JAPAN". This doodle expresses our gratitude to the people in the world for their hearty
support for Japan at the last disaster, with the Japanese traditional style of manner of
"OJIGI". It's also showing ""Thank you"" tweets all over the world at the location of the
Dymaxion map in the background.
Creator: Aiham Hammami
How did you do it? I have been previously creating an object oriented
2d canvas animation library so I used that to create a puzzle game in the shape of the
Dymaxion map. It implements MVC design to separate concerns (UI and logic) so it makes the
code easy to follow (i hope). I cut up all the photos into triangles manually, then I had to
pinpoint exactly where on the rectangular image the triangle vertices were, so I could create
accurate mouse overs. Enjoy.
Creator: Risa ITO
How did you do it? SVGとcss3を使って、
日本の色合いを出してみました
RussiaCreator: Valentyn Shybanov
How did you do it? All animations are done using CSS3 transitions -
mostly no Javascript is used for it. Triangles are drawn using '-webkit-mask-image':
-webkit-canvas()' trick (canvas as mask). Currently only Google Chrome supports CSS3
'mask-image' so doodle can be watched only on it. Simple quiet music is pre-generated and
played by HTML5 Audio.
Creator: Anton Eprev
How did you do it? The idea is to show the Dymaxion map so that it
would be like on ignition of a fluorescent lamp. The host country area and text letters
continue to flicker after turning on. Requires browsers that support inline SVG.
Creator: Roman Fedorov
How did you do it? I really love this game and I really love Chrome
and HTML5. I've made this doodle with great pleasure!
Creator: Mikhail Kalinin
How did you do it? This is the Memorize game. I used jQuery library
with plugins. For best compatibility with all modern browsers, I used CSS3 2D transform
instead of 3D transform.
Creator: Alexey Belozerov
How did you do it? I have used 2 HTML5 canvas objects as layers and
performed 'destination-over' composition mode to make erasing effect.
Phoebe Peronto is a Developer Marketing Intern working to
coordinate the launch of Google Developer Days 2011. She hails from UC Berkeley as a rising
senior studying Political Science and Business, and is excited to work with the Google team
for summer 2011.Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
