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July 12 2010
May 28 2010
Creating Nature with Sound.
A lovely installation where the user can create nature and animals by blowing / talking into the mic.
MOC by Lab212 explores the relationship between sound and image through simple interactions and fun. Exhibited in the French Institute of Meknes (Moc à Meknès, Maroc, à l’occasion du FICAM10.), MOC is an imaginary landscape that passes in front of the viewer. Whistling into a microphone, a tree grows: its shape will evolve in real time based on the sound produced. At each pause, the tree stops growing. At the sound of the voice, random fantastic animals will emerge in the forest.
Setup:
- microphone on a stand
- 2.30 x 2.30m retroprojected screen
- videoprojector and a mirror
- custom software written in C++/openFrameworks
Found via Creative Applications
May 27 2010
May 25 2010
May 09 2010
May 01 2010
Cinder
A new Library from the Barbican group.
Its well impressive with a vast library, but before I list some of the nerd facts, take a look at the end results.
Some of the library features
Standalone Mac & Pc Applications
Platform-Native Windowing And Event Handling
Screensavers
Create Native Mac Os X And Windows Screensavers
Internet I/O
Load Media Via Http And Ftp Natively
Full I/O Abstraction
Seamless I/O From Flat Files, Memory, Resources And Networks
C++ Core
Internally Reference-Counted Design Prevents Leaks, C++0X Std::Thread For Multithreading
Cocoa Touch Support
Targets The Iphone & Ipad; Provides A Growing List Of Device-Specific Features
Ui Events
Full Keyboard, Mouse (Including Scroll Wheel), Window And File Drag & Drop
Xml Dom Parser
Built-In Object Oriented Xml Parsing Api
Serial Port
Core Classes
Perspective And Orthographic Cameras, Triangle Meshes, Obj Loading, Geometric Primitives
Opengl Core
Multisampled Antialiasing, Dynamic Switching Between Full-Screen & Windowed Modes, Convenience Methods For Rapid Development
Opengl Classes
Full-Featured Classes For Textures, Fbos, Glsl, Vbos, Lights, Materials And Display Lists
Tile-Based Renderer
Render Arbitrarily Large Images (For Print & Other Applications)
Gui Parameters
Gl-Based Gui For Powerful, Convenient Manipulation Of Parameters
Math Primitives
Full-Featured Matrix, Vector And Quaternion Classes
Utilities
Colors, Random Numbers, Perlin Noise (Up To 4D, With Analytical Derivatives)
Geometric Primitives
Poly-Bezier Paths, Polygons, Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes, B-Splines, Least-Squares B-Spline Curve Fitting
Robust Image I/O
Png, Jpeg, Tiff, Bmp & Others Via Platform-Native Libraries. Preservation Of Premultiplication And High Dynamic Range Information
2D Image Processing
Professional Quality Image Resizing, Edge Detection, Desaturation, Adaptive Thresholding
High Dynamic Range Imaging
Full Support For Floating Point Hdr Pixel Processing In Image I/O, Opengl And Software
Powerful 2D Rasterizer Via Cairo
Full Featured Vector Renderer Exports To Svg, Pdf, Postscript, Eps, Coregraphics, Gdi And A Pixel-Based Antialiasing Rasterizer
Fonts & Text
Font Enumeration, Glyph Path Extraction, Unicode Text Layout And Rasterization, Custom Fonts Via Flat Files Or Resources
Video Capture
Webcam Support Via Platform Native Libraries
Full-Featured Quicktime
Frame Extraction, Native Accelerated Opengl Path, Audio Playback, Fft Analysis, Asynchronous Network Loading
Audio Support
Loading Standard File Formats, Access To Raw Pcm Data And Fft, Microphones
More information and download the Library here
April 28 2010
April 27 2010
April 13 2010
April 12 2010
Robots, AR, Tactile interface walls & LED lights
Robots, augmented reality stations, huge tactile interface walls, and flowing LED lights. I think I am in heaven.
April 09 2010
April 06 2010
HTML5 is pretty neat.
Created using mrDoob’s Harmony app.
8-bit Watch
member that aggravating 8-bit pixeled watch icon that used to replace your mouse cursor whenever your Apple computer was ‘taking time’ to finish a task? Displaying a wristwatch to show your computer was busy always felt like an odd metaphor – likewise for the sand clock icon on Microsoft computers – yet once it was replaced by the animated rainbow warp, people immediately missed it.
Luckily for all you pixel-nostalgics out there, the icon watch now boomeranged into the physical world. To be worn as a wrist clock for 8-bit retro time telling. Get yours and keep this lost symbol of the pixel era alive. Pass it on to your children!
Total cost 53 euros
Buy it here
March 31 2010
Finger pulse vending machine: e-money at your fingertips
Wow, this really is the future, e-money, no cards or cash just your finger.
Shown at RetailTech 2010 this Coca-Cola vending machine that uses Hitachi’s “finger vein authentication” (VeinID) technology when you want to buy a drink.
The biometric system employs finger pulse recognition to see who you are. This might seem a bit sci-fi, but it is apparently safe, convenient and efficient (no need to store lots of data like passwords, log-in numbers, IDs etc).
March 30 2010
adidas Google Streetview Marathon Mode
New adidas work from RIOT. This time mapping the entire Boston Marathon course onto Google Streetview and adding an overlay with landmarks and some handy hints from miCoach, Greg McMillan and last years winner Salina Kosgei. This is the first iteration, look out for some updates and additional functionality over the coming weeks as well as the launch of a London Marathon version which will include some competition/treasure hunt style activity.
More to follow.
Go play here.
Via The Gypsy
March 23 2010
March 21 2010
Big Screams
Big Screams from prisonerjohn on Vimeo.
QRCode cupcake
More here
March 20 2010
Amazing Flight Visualization
More here and
thanks Mr Atkatz for the inspiration hit.
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