Less than a month since Kinect’s launch, people are already experimenting with a hacked driver of the Kinect sensor. These include capturing 3d video, 3d object recognition and interactive puppeting. At the moment I haven’t seen full 3d video capturing, and I regard those online experiments as 2.5D as they are only getting the side facing the sensor. But any moment now someone’s gonna link an array of them together to get nearly-full 3d video. That would be awesome.
Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind.
In 2010, 30th August, more than 50,000 people gathered at Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, USA. They erected a city on the 400 square mile emptiness, and proceeded to survive 8 bohemian days in this makeshift community experiencing creativity, spirituality, and sexuality. Many ideas are explored including traces of the hippie movement, sustainable living, nudism, religion, socialism, anarchy and many others. Continue reading ‘The Burning Man Project’
Thanks to Makiko Itoh for translating Satoshi’s last words. It is definitely long and rambling as she claimed, but I found it an easy reading. Being an animator and also someone who tends to surround myself with work, makes me rethink.
Found an interesting pic today with digg, redditm facebook, twitter, myspace, 4chan, deviantart, youtube, google and wikimedia personified. The artist (unknown) is quite a genius.
A car with flexible skin and movable metal structures beneath. Theoratically, you an better customize the look of your car, it is scratch resistant and it probably costs less to change the entire “cover” too. But the best part is that it also consumes much less energy to manufacture these compared to full metal casings. Safety is not an issue because crash damping and structural integrity is handled by the frame. Love the lights.
Rhythmic cycle w/ abstract animation. Official selection : Annecy International Animation Film Festival Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal : Quebec-Canada Festival des Films de la Relève
The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative. In the beginning, moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually resolve to the finished object, the Kinetic Sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding in different variations.
The graphics don’t look like much, but its a cool flash rendition of the classic Powers of Ten – except that now you control the accelerator and brakes. The scale is pretty impressive too, from quantum foam up to the whole universe, check it out at New Grounds.
