“It’s a live-streaming 3D point-cloud, carried over a binary WebSocket. It responds to movement in the scene by panning the (virtual) camera, and you can also pan and zoom around with the mouse.”
A depthcam? A webkinect? Introducing a new kind of webcam
(Source: berglondon.com)
“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
The Composites - Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters.
“If everyone now has the ability to make their own things, then surely everyone should also be responsible for the things they make. If not, it’s entirely possible that the 3D printing “revolution” will be remembered not only for the products it creates, but also for the landfill it leaves behind.”
Tingle by Rhys Duindam is a new instrument which is used to teach young students about music. The instrument is a converted pin-board toy that is used to demonstrate the forming of music and sound. The 3D landscape, created by whatever is underneath the board, is used to generate the metaphoric musical landscape. It is a 3D version of the sound visualizers normally embedded in music softwares and is a common visual representative for sound. Using this metaphor makes it easier for young students to link their actions to the created sounds.
“The Cryoscope by Robb Godshaw shows the user exactly what to expect outside by haptically exhibiting exactly how cold or warm it is to be outside. The user simply touches an aluminum cube that has been heated or cooled to the appropriate temperature. The unit fetches weather data from the internet, and translates it to the cube physically, pumping heat in or out of the cube.”
“Tokyo department store Takashimiya has teamed up with Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University to install a new visual merchandising concept using a lifelike android mannequin that has shoppers stopping in their tracks.”
Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.
(Source: singularityhub.com)
Robot Readable World by Timo Arnall.
“How do robots see the world? How do they extract meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye”
