GML Week!!! (Graffiti Markup Language)

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Welcome to GML week @fffffat! Graffiti Markup Language (GML) is a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. Gestural graffiti motion data of a tag created in GML-supported software is saved as a text file with a “.GML” extension…. a new digital standard for tomorrow’s vandals.

FAT members have been hard at work standardizing various open source graffiti-related software packages, including Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag, Fat Tag Deluxe and EyeWriter to be GML compliant.

Please stay tuned to FAT all this week as we publish new GML related projects each day. There will be multiple new free software releases, open data repositories, iphone apps, robots, guest bloggers and more. GML week is now officially open for business.

Commented example GML code can be viewed here.


tempt-109.gml – GML data from TEMPT1 using EyeWriter.


she-155.gml – GML data from SHE using Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (coming very very soon).

The GML development team consists of Theodore Watson, Jamie Wilkinson, Chris Sugrue and Evan Roth. We can be found in #fatlab IRC (irc:// link)

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Posted on January 4, 2010

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    1. Matt Katz says:
      January 4, 2010 at 9:44 am

      Anyone already done a GML to html Canvas conversion yet?

    2. ARAM says:
      January 4, 2010 at 10:25 am

      YESYESYES !!!

    3. Jamie Dubs says:
      January 4, 2010 at 12:48 pm

      Matt — I’ve got a canvas-based player started…

      http://jamiedubs.com/canvasplayer
      http://github.com/jamiew/canvasplayer

      In the midst of adding native JSON callbacks to the 000000book API so javascript drawing is trivial

    4. Graffiti Markup Language week at Fatlab | Products & Tech News says:
      January 4, 2010 at 12:53 pm

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    5. Matt Katz says:
      January 4, 2010 at 1:01 pm

      Jdubs is always 3 steps ahead of the game.

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    7. jeff says:
      January 4, 2010 at 7:47 pm

      Does this have support for gaps in the line? Not all tags are done in one stroke.

    8. Jamie Dubs says:
      January 4, 2010 at 7:49 pm

      @Jeff — yep, GML supports multiple strokes, even multiple “drawings”

    9. jeff says:
      January 4, 2010 at 9:32 pm

      Great! :)

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    13. TEASE-OLA says:
      January 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm

      NEEDZ MOAR ARROWZ

    14. Matt Katz says:
      January 6, 2010 at 4:34 pm

      oh I bet you can add some arrows to the ends of lines no problem.

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    19. cybunk says:
      January 9, 2010 at 11:29 am

      Really good !

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    23. technabob says:
      January 14, 2010 at 11:49 pm

      graffiti markup language (gml) turns paint tags into xml tags…

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    29. possan says:
      January 18, 2010 at 6:39 am

      I got to add this to my renderer!

    30. Sarven Capadisli says:
      January 18, 2010 at 2:55 pm

      Why not reuse W3C’s SVG (Scalabe Vector Graphics)? http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

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    45. remo says:
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      Hi,
      I am trying to download my GML to play in my GA opensource player. and It doesnt work- when i press the download botton – another page opens with text and numbers – WHICH is not GML. I dont know how to download and save the file in GML format so the GA player can play it. HELP PLEASE

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    48. Jamie Dubs says:
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      Right click “Download GML” link -> “Save as…”

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