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8-Bit City

Cities that have been mapped like 80’s video games.

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more cities here

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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

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Feelings

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People were asked to draw how emotions felt in their bodies, the results can be found here
Via Katie D

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Cinder

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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

Tags: Code Design
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UTweet

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Uniqlo have created a nice Twitter type campaign pulling people in to see their tweets visualized.
Hat off again to the guys & girls @ uniglo

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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.

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Full video here

More here

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8-bit Watch

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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

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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).

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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

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Amazing Flight Visualization

More here and
thanks Mr Atkatz for the inspiration hit.

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