I’ve been playing around with BitmapData and Webcams for the last few days for an Interactive Pool Table that I am working on. Today I got side tracked, after visiting Decode at London’s V&A museum I felt as though my programing is becoming more art orientated by the day. It’s not much and it’s very simple but here’s what I’ve been playing with today. Simple but fun!
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I was fortunate enough to have recently gone to the Victoria and Albert Museums conference Decoding the Digital. Decoding the digital was a conference that discussed new media’s place in the art based community and the issues and controversy of digital based art. Casey Reas was one of the great artists there and has work featured in the Decode exhibition at London’s V&A as well as around the world. Caseys work is about processing data to create beautiful pieces of work. In 2001 Casey and Ben Fry created a tool called Processing, this tool allowed them to create wonderful graphics such as the one seen above. Fortunately for you all I recorded Casey Reas’ talk on ‘Form+Code’. If you get the chance visit Decode and Digital Pioneers at London’s V&A.
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This animation blew me away, the high quality modeling of this animation was done by one guy Pantural. The animation is photo realistic and even kicks the ass of Crysis’s renders. Can’t wait until PaperVision3D gets this good, looking forward to 2075!
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The f5×5x5 Framework Sculpture is a brilliant interactive instillation ,designed by LAb[au], the installation uses and array of sensors, stepper motors and LED lights. This complex sculpture is themed after architectural problems (like congestion and flows) with spatial sensing technologies. It’s an interesting piece with a unique style.
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Anyone who loves Flash for full on Web experiences should have heard of Disturb Media, based in the heart of London Disturb Media create some of the best examples of design on the web. I haven’t been on there site for a while but hey to me this is all very new, very sleek and best of all very cool. The site features there previous work including the awesome, Twigital that I featured earlier this month! The site background also constantly changes which may seem like a minor feature but it’s the little things that make this site really special. The thing I love most about this site though is the animation between the pages is simply beautiful.
Why? Well probably just because they can! This tech demo of a Multi-Touch Sphere is an interesting concept which I believe if applied correctly could have some useful and interesting applications, such as a globe and games. With the rise of Multi-Touch technology it will be interesting to see if this sort of technology will make it into day to day life.
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This awesome simple demo is just for show but I love little Flash Toys like this, just blow into the microphone on your computer to make the leaves swirl around, simple and imaginative. Designed by Bartek Drozdz of Everyday Flash the demo also includes other features such as changing the depth of field and the quantity of [...]
Damn that Q-Block site I reviewed yesterday! Buy hey who doesn’t heart the companion cube? Click the picture to take you to my self proclaimed masterpiece and if you want you can even download a wallpaper from it.
By Adam Butler
I’m Graphic Communication student and my last two years have been on Digital Design & Interactive Media . I love interactive work and it’s definitely what I’m going to focus on for the rest of my life, but my user interface skills suck and that’s essential to what I do, so I joined graphic communication for my [...]
This is a awesome look at a couple of the new things we will be seeing in Photoshop CS5, it look promising! Although the narrator scares me a little! They demo two new technologies, dynamic 3D bendable brush’s and you can now warp pictures with control in certain area.
Enjoy!
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