Here’s an other processing project: Biomimetic Butterflies by Robert Hodgin. These butterflies are computer generated! Yeah, it’s just code, some algorithms did all the work. Amazing! Robert explains how it was done here and here.
Who said that coding is for nerds? I just love beautiful code.
Lennyjpg does processing stuff … a lot. He has over 2600 photos in his flickr account with processing projects. One of these programming projects made it to the physical world, he has build the Physical Vertex Buffer in cardboard.
Parklab has put up an example that uses their flash BeatDetector classes: The Longest Way. No, it’s not an animation, just stop the music and you will see … The music is Ricardo Villalobos excellent 37 minutes track ‘Fizheuer Zieheuer’.
Two months ago the White Glove Tracking project was launched. Users were asked to locate Michael Jacksons white glove in a ‘Billy Jean’ live performance video, by drawing a yellow rectangle over it. After 72 hours the job was done, all 10,060 frames were analyzed. Now, they released all the data, the coordinates of the rectangles, and video material for you to use and mash-up. There are already some samples in the gallery, one uses the height of the glove to adjust the speed, an other one always displays the glove centered and at the same size.
This project is related to the Eyebeam Research Lab and the Graffiti Research Lab.
Yes, Flash is finally getting mature, Actionscript 3 and the Flash 9 player are giving us some more power. Adobe even released a beta Flash player that supports multi-core processors for some tasks! And now with Parklabs beat detection class for Actionscript 3, you won’t need any external tool anymore to build some VJ app.
Josh Nimoy got together with the GRL at OFFF 2007 and coded a new brush for their L.A.S.E.R. Tag. He also made it available to us as a desktop tool to play around with. So you can download the GRL Graffiti Brush here.
After seeing many research projects about touchscreen interfaces (Sony CSL, HyperPalette, SmartSkin, DataTiles, HoloWall, Pick-and-Drop, and the demo’s by Jeff Han, the technology is finally coming available to the broad audience … the Apple iPhone. So what are they doing in Redmond? Well, they just launched ‘Microsoft Surface’. Don’t get your hopes up, it will cost between $5,000 and $10,000, so the people in the demo movies must be very rich.
UPDATE:
I have posted Robert Hodgin’s processing project called Magnetosphere some weeks ago. Yesterday he released it as a plugin for iTunes! Go and get it here, make sure that you checkout the options by pressing the ? key after installation.
SHOWstudio is having this project called ‘Naomi’ for some months now. They did a live photoshoot, they scanned her in 3D and so on. Now you can paint on that 3D model here.
This piece of art is by Erik Natzke, some of you might know him as the person who is always steps ahead when it comes to Flash. Indeed I call it art; he created this with Flash and not Processing or whatever, and that is just amazing. He uploaded a movie which shows how this image was generated, watch it to believe it.
He will hold a workshop at OFFF next month, so if you’re going rsvp your seat now! I won’t make it unfortunately so let’s hope that he will post some notes afterwards.
You can also keep an eye on his Flickr account to see what he’s up to.
