Touching Beams of Light: An Otherworldly Laser Interaction Prototype
Laser interaction prototype from jayson on Vimeo. Interaction design isn’t just input. Output can transform a simple demo into something that seems to bend reality. Melbourne-based artist Jayson...
View ArticleA Ballet of Quadrotors: Helicopter Spectacular from Saatchi & Saatchi [Vicon,...
So, we can point lights at different stuff and map projections to surfaces and do all that good stuff. You know what’s even more fun? Flying the lights around on helicopters. In a dazzling visual...
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Generative Design Book Coming in English; Watch a Full-Length Talk on...
Generative Gestaltung from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo. “Generative design,” as a concept, describes design that goes beyond the direct hands of the creator, to the work that can emerge from rules and...
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See Like a Bug on Acid: Visual Smash Ups, From Cameras, Simpsons + Family...
Visual Smash Up from Parag K Mital on Vimeo. What happens when you distort a video with a video? It’s what artist and coder Parag K Mital calls a “visual smash up,” which he says “takes existing...
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‘The Nature of Code’ Book Illustrates Coding Design Secrets – And Power of...
In traditional visual arts, some knowledge of color theory and form is essential to being expressive. From there, you move on to tricks of shading and perspective. These shared understandings allow...
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Hack Art: How A Discarded BTX Terminal, Found on the Street, Returned to Life
Saved from the landfill, this BTX Terminal comes to life. At Patch Audiovisual Lab, Poland. Here, when we talk about salvaging old electronics, we really mean salvaging. The basis of Shechina ex...
View ArticleAwesome Universe of Creative Coding, Explained in Five Minutes [Video]
“What’s creative coding?” At last, we have a five-minute video that, in rapid-cut wonder, explains the answer to lay people – and can be a serious dose of inspirational adrenaline to people doing it....
View ArticleMorphing Abstractions to New Thom Yorke Superband, Tarik Barri’s Poetry of...
When Thom Yorke starts a new superband – and adds the Chili Peppers’ Flea, Radiohead producer and multi-instrumentalist Nigel Godrich, and percussion from both Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and...
View ArticleRobots, Mimicking Bees, Cover a Room in a Drawn, Unbroken Line
MIND OUT : PROJECT LONGARM from e on Vimeo. The idea of technology being apart from nature may be entirely backwards. Patterns and logic in code spring from the organic engine of human brains, and can...
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Hap to Make VJs Happy: Codec Looks Better, Plays Faster on GPU, Free [Mac]
HD videos. Lots of them. Running on an ordinary Mac. (May be time to upgrade to SSD, folks.) Screen courtesy Vidvox, running their flagship VDMX semi-modular visual performance tool. Hap as in happy...
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PixelPusher to Make Networked Syphon Displays from LEDs, Easily, in...
LEDs are poised to revolutionize displays, but that future isn’t “evenly distributed” yet. And that’s why some emerging projects are so intriguing. Think instant displays, addressable from any...
View ArticleResponsive Kinect Dancing Goes Hip-Hop [Video, Tips]
Body mapping and dance/visual fusions are still explored only in fits and starts, compared to the extent of live music and visual performance in other media. So, it’s encouraging to see this latest...
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Creative Coding, Evolved: Processing Nears 2.0 Release With Hot-Looking Beta 9
There’s a reason for Processing’s popularity. By making code simple, elegant, and direct, and catering directly to the kinds of visual ideas creative people have, the environment has made programming...
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The Natural World, in Code: Dan Shiffman Talks Genetic Algorithms
Dan Shiffman @ Kickstarter HQ on Genetic Algorithms on April 2nd from Kickstarter on Vimeo. Creative code may, to most people, be as far from the natural world as possible. But in a purely aesthetic...
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An Exquisite Corpse Game Jam, Made with OSC, Starts this Week
Game jams have already begun encouraging creative, improvisatory game jam, by gathering designers and artists together and motivating them with tight deadlines. But here’s a new concept: what if all...
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TouchDesigner 088 Adds Crazy-Awesome Savvy in Mapping, Scripting, Sound and...
Eye Vapor EEG Sonification 1 from Derivative on Vimeo. Smart. Even smart enough to visualize and sonify EEGs. TouchDesigner is not well-known in general circles, even after long-running availability....
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Microsoft Embraces Open, Creative Coding: New Kinect openFrameworks, Cinder...
Eye of the tiger: a look at the sensor on the current Kinect hardware reveals the scattered points that form the image of a depth map. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Ben Frantzdale. It’s not overstatement: the...
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Vuo in Beta: A New Hope for Visual Development? [Resources]
So, without a line of code, you want to make something new, visually. You’ve got Max, you’ve got Pd, you’ve got vvvv. But for quickly cooking up generative visuals, dynamic interaction, live...
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With Apple’s PrimeSense Acquisition, Shifting Landscape in Depth Sensing,...
Kyle McDonald’s Kinect art – among the experiments that made the idea of putting depth cameras into phones suddenly appealing. Photo (CC-BY) the man, the legend, the Kyle. It wasn’t so long ago that...
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1024 Architecture Tesseract is a Dazzling Hypercube of Light; Gallery, Behind...
1024 Architecture have already made rectangles sexy, in light, mappings, and stage environments. Now, they’ve gone all fourth-dimensional on us – and the results are stunning. They give us a look...
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