Created by Andrey Yazev (the389), Nlug is a simple, beautiful and extremely addictive clock app made using openFrameworks. Included is a digital clock made of particles controlled by a physics engine. When the time changes particles explode and transform into new digits. You can control particles using your fingers as retractors. Up to five simultaneous touches are supported and their behaviour is based on Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.

See also the wonderful app site, created using html5 canvas.

In case you haven’t seen Andrey’s work before, the389 site is a must!

Platform: iPhone/iPad
Version: 1.0
Cost: $1.99
Developer: the389

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EyeWriter needs your help!

One year ago, graffiti artist Tony Quan (aka TEMPT1) teamed up with a group of artists from the Graffiti Research Lab, OpenFrameworks and Free Art and Technology communities to develop free and open source eye tracking and drawing software that has helped him make art again for the first time since being hospitalized. In 2003, TEMPT1 was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease), a degenerative neuromuscular disorder that causes paralysis and ultimately death. Over the course of 5 years, he lost the ability to move his arms and legs, speak, eat and even breathe without life-support systems. Not only is he drawing again, but he’s creating new and complex letter forms, designing font libraries and evolving a brand new style using new and old technology in ways no one could have imagined. After seven years of paralysis, Tony has again become a pioneer in a new community of creative individuals who refuse to let neuromuscular diseases stop them from expressing themselves through art.

The team has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money Tony needs to create a new collection of original TEMPT1 artwork and merchandise using the EyeWriter 2.0 software, robotic technology, traditional print-making techniques, as well as his community of friends, fans and peers.

Supporting this campaign will not only allow TEMPT1 to continue to make art and express his ideas, but it will give him a chance to again become a professional artist, independently support himself and his family, pay for his medical bills, and make a contribution to the contemporary art world.

Please, take a moment today and donate as little as $1 (everything counts!) in support of EyeWriter >
Kickstarter Page

100% of the $15,000 goal will go directly to TEMPT1 to help produce his art, cover his hospital costs and help support his family. Anything above that amount will be split 50/50 between TEMPT1 and research and development costs for future versions and improvements of the EyeWriter system.

For updates, please follow @eyewriter on Twitter.

For more information on the EyeWriter initiative, please go to:http://eyewriter.org
For more background on TEMPT1, please go to:http://estria.blogspot.com/2009/10/tempt-one-creates-art-with-only-his.html

For examples of Tempt’s drawings, check out the following: here | here | here

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FOTB is approaching fast, more precisely in 3 weeks from today. For those that might be unaware of FOTB already, it is an annual conference in Brighton, UK bringing together some of the biggest names in Flash and digital media on the whole. This is FOTB’s fifth year! If you are a designer, developer, coder, student, manager, game developer, artist, animator or a newbie, then this conference will be for you. Don’t think that Flash on the Beach is only about Flash. Sure appearing at FOTB in the past the team has had the usual suspects – Flash, Flex, AIR, and then some; Open Frameworks, Processing, AJAX, Photoshop, After Effects, Art, Design, Illustration, Animation, Sound and many more.

Below we’ve included two talks from last year including one by mario KLINGEMANN and andre MICHELLE (more here). I met both Mario and Andre during Flashbelt back in June and they are two of many talkers at FOTB you don’t want to miss. Of course, jared TARBELL, robert HODGIN, james PATERSON, karsten SCHMIDT, brendan DAWES and many more will be there too.

Ticket sales end in 1 WEEK, so act fast! Prices vary but student tickets are fantastic value! Students get the rock bottom price.

## Brighton, UK, September 26 – 29th. The Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1EE ##

flashonthebeach.com

Here is the full list of speakers with links to FOTB site which includes also a little about:
brendan DAWES, hoss GIFFORD, rich SHUPE, robert REINHARDT, seb LEE-DELISLE, jared TARBELL, branden HALL, richard GALVAN, tink (STEPHEN DOWNS), mike CHAMBERS, mario KLINGEMANN, niqui MERRET, mike JONES, grant SKINNER, robert HODGIN, stefan SAGMEISTER, andre MICHELLE, lee BRIMELOW, chris PELSOR, nando COSTA, julian DOLCE, peter ELST, joa EBERT, james PATERSON, ralph HAUWERT, doug MCCUNE, stacey MULCAHY, hugh ELLIOTT, joshua HIRSCH, serge JESPERS, laura JORDAN-BAMBACH, karsten SCHMIDT, florian SCHMITT, jon HOWARD, conrad WINCHESTER, iain LOBB, veronique BROSSIER, andrew SHORTEN, thibault IMBERT, remy SHARP, doug WINNIE, julien VALLEE, cyriak HARRIS, mind CANDY and frank REITBERGER

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The fantastic Graffiti Analysis 3.0 application by Evan Roth and Chris Sugrue is now available for download! For those unfamiliar with the project, GA is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files, a specifically formatted XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data. GML files are saved in an open online database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles.

The 3.0 app includes the following new features:
- Input from iPhone + anything you can strap the light onto.
- Audio input which affects particles generated from the tag – perfect for live events
- Keyword based RSS .gml player / search for a keyword and let the app play all the tags
- 3D Printing Integration – Print your tags!!
-  ”Interactive Architecture” – allows interaction of projected graffiti with objects that receive the projection (buildings)..
- Laser Input – tag buildings from long distances.. (need  big a** monster projector)
- Stereography..

More + download at graffitianalysis.com (mac OSX only for the time being..windows/linux soon)

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Created by James Alliban and inspired by Cubist work, Fracture is an iPhone application that allows you to paint cubist style portraits using your own photographs. As in cubist art, the photos are analysed according to their colour composition, then broken up and re-assembled to new triangle based composition not loosing the sight of the original subject. In Fracture, you can choose up to six different photographs from your library of camera, preferably from different angles and create new photo assemblages. Various options are included such as the ability to adjust outline and shape alpha, blur the content of triangle, average the colour and other. By “drawing” on the screen you endlessly overlay your photographs with segments of the six photos generating unique and very successful cubist like composition.

To see more examples, visit Fracture Flickr group.

Created using openFrameworks.

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Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: James Alliban

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Created by Kim Asendorf and published by CreativeApplications.Net, asdfbmp is a pixel pattern generator app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It creates a pixel structure by using a spatial partition algorithm resulting in fields populated by pixel patterns.

You can choose from 16 bitmap patterns and 32 colours. You can adjust the minimal field size, the probability of a new division and the proportion between horizontal and vertical division.

In the draw mode you decide which field is going to be divided. By tapping on the screen the field you have chosen gets split under condition that your minimal field size is met.  The auto mode divides until there is no more field left and it’s wonderful to watch. Additionally there is a mode menu where you can choose extra blending modes such as pattern, fill, outline, empty, random.

Kim Asendorf is an artist based in Kassel, Germany. Inspired by social behavior, the thinking of large media groups and the resulting gaps in these systems. Driven by curiosity and the basic idea of a do-gooder, he uses all the known techniques and methods to express oneself.

For examples see Flickr and for updates follow asdfbmp on twitter @asdfbmp_app.

The app is available in the AppStore for $1.99.

About Apps.CAN:
Apps.CreativeApplications.Net, a little brother of CAN, is a site dedicated to the collection of Apps for Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad created by artists around the globe and published by CreativeApplications.Net. The aim is to inspire, innovate and challenge the norm by creating applications that question our relationship to technology and personal devices. The applications included are the first of many to come. If you are an artist/developer and interested in working with CreativeApplications.Net, please get in touch.

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Latest is the series of sound apps from Henry Chu is SoundGyro, a sound toy that uses iPhone 4′s gyroscope to alter pitch, octave or change the key. The app is still in development and Henry is still working on developing some advanced features. We asked Henry about SoundGyro, here is some info + inspiration behind the app.

Once iPhone4 was released, I wanted to try on the gyroscope as it gives more accurate position/orientation information than the accelerometer. I had the idea to create a theremin like instrument that translate the hand position to musical notes, I did it on iPhone and Wiimote before, but the result didnt impress me, mostly because I cannot combine 2 axis of movement together, the reading will go very unstable. Another reason is that the sensor is not sensitive enough to capture small gesture, which is a big hurdle in creating expressive music, if I can only play long notes slowly.

Using gyroscope I can combine 3 axis of movement together without messing up all of them. Moreover, the device can now detect the rotation rate, it adds another dimension of control. The iPad and 3Gs has a digital compass which behave in a similar way, but the sensor just got better in iPhone4.

Using SoundGyro is simple, tap anywhere on the screen to start the sound, at this moment, there is no difference at where you tap, but I might add some more control for advance playing. Tilting the device upward and download to change the pitch. To move to the upper or lower octave, rotate the device, you can use up to +/- 3 octave. The rolling controls the volume.

The default sound is A, in the setup page you can change the key. You can switch on/off the note snapping also that allow you to play discreet notes or slide between notes.

Wonderfully, SoundGyro as you see in the video below was only one days(!) work. Henry is keen to do more so keep an eye on his vimeo account for new videos + demos.

In the meantime, Sound Yeah bounced from the AppStore approval process for using a private API which Henry forgot to remove. Nevertheless, it is back in the approval queue and (hopefully) should be available in the next few days.

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Video of the recent Visual Music Collaborative workshop has just been added by Aaron Meyers to our group on Vimeo. We wrote about it few days ago with examples of work produced but the video below discusses ideas behind some of the projects including guest speakers such as Zach Lieberman (oF) and Peter Kirn (CDM). The event was hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC and led by Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International.

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This is a collection of work produced at the recent Visual Music Collaborative workshop hosted by Eyebeam this July in NYC. The event was led by Aaron Meyers, in collaboration with Re:Group artist, Aaron Koblin and in creative partnership with Ghostly International. Invited participants were asked to explore the relationship between music, sound, and dynamically generated imagery and motion. Topics included sound-analysis techniques, advanced OpenGL programming, and interfacing with mobile control devices.

The selection below shows only a small selection of the work done at the workshop. As more appear on line, we’ll add to the list although I am sure, as I write this, the organisers are working on collecting them all. For full list of participants see here.

For more information on this and future workshops see visualmusic.tumblr.com + Eyebeam + Wiki

(photo above – eyebeam’s flickr stream)

the Illusionist from Lars Berg on Vimeo.

music: Shigeto, “the illusionist”

made with openframeworks

BETA: Visuals (x) CWCIII – Telefon Tel Aviv / Richard Devine from /// *** this.riley *** \\\ on Vimeo.

OpenFrameworks live audio analysis / visual generation, OSC in/out (to be controlled or control other devices) 2D Geometry + GL shaders /// semi auto control via analysis or manually from performers input

Special track CWCIII – Telefon Tel Aviv / Richard Devine for Charlie Cooper on Ghostly International

Look at all the Smiling Faces — Shigeto from jonobr1 on Vimeo.

This video is a recording of my visual performance to Shigeto’s new track, Look at all the Smiling Faces, on July 23, 2010. This is the culmination of the 5 day long Master Class Workshop at Eyebeam (http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-school-masterclass-visual-music-collaborative) in New York.

While listening to the track — in total 299 times this week — I imagined some kind of microscopic underwater scene. I wanted to merge this idea with my desire and passion to perform. With the guidance of the instructors, Aaron Meyers and Aaron Koblin, I decided to interface the application with my XBox 360 Controller.

Built with Processing

Visual Music Collaborative – Sieve test w/ Dabrye + Dog Eating Ice Cream from Will Calcutt on Vimeo.

School of Seven Bells – Windstorm (Improv) from blair neal on Vimeo.

This is a visual improv I recorded to the SVIIB song “Windstorm” off of their new album Disconnect from Desire. Unfortunately, my 4 year old computer is not able to chew through video and do screen grabs at a very high framerate so it’s incredibly choppy, so please don’t take it as anything polished.

Built in Max/msp and jitter.

Eyebeam & Ghostly International – Visual Music Workshop from George Michael Brower on Vimeo.

Christopher Willits: Colours Shifting
Ghostly International

Performed live for this recording, using data gathered from the Echo Nest API.

Made in Processing.

The Old Man and the Sea from Evan Boehm on Vimeo.

My week’s output for the Visualist Master Class at Eyebeam NY, July 19th-23rd. This piece was written in C++ and is fully interactive.

The basis of the course was to create a visual accompaniment to a song off the Ghostly International label. Choosing The Sight Below’s ‘Simmer’ I decided to recreate Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea as a serious of 3D dioramas.

In the novella, the protagonist has lost his pride and respect within the community because he has not caught a fish for 86 days. On the 87th day, a giant Marlin appears who he battles to catch. After a long struggle where he refers to the Marlin as ‘brother,’ he finally subdues the fish and brings him aboard. On the way back to land, the fisherman has to fight off numerous sharks who are attracted by the trail of blood in the water. Eventually, the fisherman returns to land with just the massive bones left. The ordeal can be read as the man’s fight for his sense of self and purpose with the Marlin the physical representation.

My interest lay in the use of polygon reduction as a storytelling tool. 3D graphics models are made up of a series of points (vertices) that are ‘skinned’ to create models. The more points, the smoother and more detailed the model. Could reducing/increasing the number of points on a model be used to drive a story forward or create a emotional response? Throughout the piece the character’s emotional state is represented by both the polygon count and distortion of the water.

Hopefully a first experiment of many.

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Created by Rob Seward, Kunst Bauen is an interactive artwork inspired by 80s video games and the Bauhaus. It lets you conjure pulsating, futuristic patterns with just your fingertips. You can stroke the screen to create smooth, swirling shapes, or tap it to make geometric patterns. Kunst Bauen was originally part of a 2008 art installation in Hamburg, Germany. Now it’s available for the iPad and iPhone. The iPad edition features a higher resolution and increased framerate.

made with openFrameworks and also open source. Get the code here.

You can also download the previous edition Mac OSX desktop version of the app here which was part of a larger video games project.

Rob Seward is an artist and programmer. His work has been exhibited at the Blanton Museum, Austin; CVZ Contemporary, New York; Center For Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin; and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. He has lectured at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Columbia University; and Location One, both in New York.

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Cost: $0.99 iPhone and $1.99 for iPad HD version
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