Generator Motor Car (5)
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Some kind of home-made vehicle from China. I appreciate the wooden wheels and bamboo combined with what looks like a cheap honda generator motor. (Via here.)
What’s your water footprint? (1)
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You’ve heard of a carbon footprint, and maybe you’ve even calculated yours, but what about your water footprint? Just as the food and products you consume have a hidden oil cost (fuel used in manufacturing and transportation, for example) they also have a hidden water cost. A recent article in the Guardian (Revealed: the massive scale of UK’s water consumption) made the point that each Briton consumes 4,645 litres a day when you take into ...
Preview: Wiimote Headtracking, Now in Processing (2)
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Processing Blogs (26)
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Netzstaub has been pumping out all kinds of great code and projects over on his blog. Here’s an especially sweet example: he’s got Processing working with a basic headtracking process. The input involves oscp5 and netp5 used with the Mac-only DarwiinRemoteOSC library, but could be adapted to other operating systems. Wiimote Headtracking in Processing via wesen’s Twitter (follow CDM at Twitter: cdmblogs) Once the data is there, the rest is basically math. You position the ...
OpenSoundControl on iPhone and iPod Touch App Store (4)
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We’ve seen fantastic ways of using the iPod touch and iPhone as controllers, but all require the jailbroken device. Once you up to 2.0 firmware, they cease to work — even if you jailbreak your 2.0 firmware. I’m hopeful that those apps will catch up, hopefully via a mixture of the jailbroken, open-source toolchain and the official Apple SDK. But in the meantime, a very lovely OSC app has shown up on the official App ...
Compression Depression (1)
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At work I’ve been coming up with a new method of managing monsters by giving them a Logo style script. It’s a list of letters followed by numbers. The real tough part was nesting scripts within each other so I can have monsters spawn other monsters. This is tough because I have the new script in between brackets and regex can’t do a balanced search. It’s okay to spawn one monster, but what if that ...
»tie-dye rebel flag«, 2007 by Javier Morales. (2)
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The End of Video as Evidence of Anything (8)
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Twenty three years ago, Stewart Brand, Jay Kinney and I wrote a cover story for the July 1985 issue of Whole Earth magazine called "The End of Photography as Evidence of Anything." We noticed that high-end graphic computers were able to alter photos in such a way that they could convey any fantasy. At that time retouching on these machines was expensive (you paid a trained operator to do the retouching), so most of this ...
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MiramarMike said:
JESUS!!!! That is amazing! And on a home video camera and "off-the-shelf" software. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
»Apolitico«, 2001 (Flags of all countries in black, grey and (2)
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“Call – Response” by Hiroyo Tanaka and Macoto Cuhara. (1)
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Looking For the Mouse (12)
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Originally posted in ct2 Clay Shirky is my favorite tech evangelist these days. I resonate with what he says and especially how he says it. A video of a talk he did recently reverberated through the net. This week Edge transcribed it. The following snippet is the best summation of social media that I've heard: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about ...
Very Long-Term Backup (21)
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Originally posted in Long Now> Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information. While it can burn or dissolve in water, good acid-free versions of paper are otherwise stable over the long term, cheap to warehouse, and oblivious to technological change because its pages are "eye-scanable." No special devices needed. Well-made, well-cared for paper can last 1,000 years easily, and probably reach 2,000 without much extra trouble. We can not say ...
Geometric Keyboard (9)
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Originally posted in ct2 Rather than confine itself to one long string of keys, this novel keyboard interface uses hexagonal keys in a honeycomb pattern to arrange notes ordered according to a harmonic table. Called the Axis, this innovative MIDI controller is in commercial production. This is not a alternative tuning system, but an alternative keyboard. All twelve notes of the traditional Western scale fit into onto a 2-dimensional surface with a visible logical pattern. ...
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Ashok said:
This is probably the most incredible and inspired idea i have ever seen.
Why People Pirate Stuff (34)
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In the universe of the free ("free" as in beer), getting ripped off is the norm. Yes, many products and services are deliberately priced at zero these days, but a significant portion of consumers will gravitate to illegitimate free versions of not-free stuff. Free versions of pricey digital products are not hard to find on underground file trading sites, or in bits and pieces on above ground aggregators like YouTube. Most high-priced wares like expensive ...
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Sue said:
Some people are so wrapped up in being "stolen" from that they don't see it as a windfall of publicity and links. Build a monetized back end, or, as this guy did, fix what bugs people and your income will grow nicely.
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mersenne_twister said:
My games aren't as good as they could be. Ironically, one of the things that reduces your enthusiasm to really go the extra mile in making games is the thought that thousands of ungrateful gits will swipe the whole thing on day one for nothing. It's very demoralizing. But actually talking to the pirates has revealed a huge group of people who really appreciate genuinely good games. Some of the criticisms of my games hit home. I get the impression that if I make Kudos 2 not just lots better than the original, but hugely, overwhelmingly, massively better, well polished, designed and balanced, that a lot of would-be pirates will actually buy it. I've gone from being demoralized by pirates to actually inspired by them, and I'm working harder than ever before on making my games fun and polished.
Code as Art: Generative Visual Inspiration and Sharing (8)
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Generative works from Keith Peters, on his new Art from Code site. As code literacy improves and coding tools like Processing and Flash make it easier to produce stunning visual results, the line between the coder/hacker and digital artist, and more conventional artists, is blurring fast. The next trend: networks and blogs on which people share not just their work, but the code behind it. The idea is old, but there’s no question the breadth ...
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fo.ol said:
opening generative art with processing and flash... share the code!
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Sara said:
amazing
»Union Fargekart/ Union Colour Chart«, 2007, »Believe & Succeed (1)
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»Union Fargekart/ Union Colour Chart«, 2007, »Believe & Succeed Part l and Part ll«, 2006 by Marte Johnslien.
»Perfect Rainbow«, 2004 by Mai Hofstad Gunnes. (1)
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»Heroes Square (1896) Vs Obi Wan Kenobi (1977)« by Ives Maes. (3)
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