Control particles by positioning affectors around the screen to solve puzzles. Play the game at http://www.playauditorium.com/
Archive for the 'Works by Others' Category
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.
The concept is strikingly simple: a short video clip is put online and each audience is allowed to replace one of the frames with an imitation of their own. Monkey see monkey do in front of their web cams. The result is interesting, see it in action at oneframeoffame.com
This work reminds me of an earlier piece by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima where they asked 10,000 independent unsuspecting users to paint a tiny portion of a USD$100 bill. The finished image can be bought for charity at tenthousandcents.com
Interesting site presenting social media news in the form of interactive lego blocks.
A beautiful piece exploring architecture through photography, view in full screen and turn up your speakers to do it justice.
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
And after staring in awe at the jaw dropping images while wondering what camera he was using, watch the making-of:
Compositing Breakdown (T&S) from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Was researching a while ago for a whiteboard style app and came across Andy Woodruff’s implementation for bezier curves.
http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/actionscript-curves-update/
Online 3d has always been mired by long loading times or unresponsive interface. The thing that caught me was how the author of this site, Masayuki Kido, has taken that apparent limitation and used it to his advantage by combining low poly models with a beautiful cut out style. The illustrations, character designs and witty dialog are are wonderful too, leaving me wanting for more after exploring all the sections. Of course, expect nothing less from the winner of the FWA Site of the year 2008.
Check it out at http://ecodazoo.com/
The site is in japanese but that shouldn’t harm your experience a bit. Click through the 10 questions and have your robot generated, then watch it move around and fight with other robots. The algorithm that moves them and animate the legs is intriguing, and the interface looks clean and polished, typical japanese design.
http://www.verbatim.jp/senshuken/
Created by IMG SRC/Non-Grid, Kaibutsu, and Masayuki Kido
What a pleasant surprise, the whole book online:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17005215/Manifold-Time-by-Stephen-Baxter-full-book
Currently reading Phase Space, and Flood is waiting in line on my shelf. Enjoying hard sci-fi.
4 beautiful shorts for annecy 2009 openings each day. Gobelins did it again, enjoy