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Ever since even fourteenth century we have been interested in the development of new forms of geometric projection which led to the invention of novel pictorial art forms of visual representation. Understanding perspective allowed us develop new sets of systems or mechanisms to ...
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11/06/2013 / Objects

Realised by the students of MA of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD and supervised by Manuel Kretzer, Resinance is part of an ongoing series of projects exploring the potential use of smart materials in an architectural context. Influenced by ...
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04/06/2013 / Featured, openFrameworks, Sound

Created using Raspberry Pi and openFrameworks, Murmur is a device that enables the communication between public and the projection by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual. The device was designed to ...
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In collaboration with Intel, CAN is pleased to announce the launch of Intel Perceptual Computing challenge! This is your opportunity to change the way people interface with computers and win a chance at $100,000 and get your app on new ...
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03/05/2013 / Games, Objects

Ming Mecca combines the heart of a video synthesizer and the brain of a videogame console. Created with love for all things retrofuture, an ontological toy and a videogame easel, Ming Mecca brings to you fingertips a comprehensive set of classic videogame design parameters, from ...
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25/04/2013 / Arduino, Kids, Objects

Created by Khalil Klouche and aimed at small children, Knock Knock is a playful calculator which allows calculation on the wood surface by knocking and will give back the answer using the same knocking tone. Components include Arduino board, contact microphones and solenoids. The device ...
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09/04/2013 / openFrameworks

Created by Dhairya Dand and Robert Hemsley, the project seeks to develop gestures to evolve three-dimensional surfaces using 2.5D interaction. Learning from existing displays which are two-dimensional and using optical illusion and depth sensing cameras, the flat elastic surface is ...
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05/04/2013 / vvvv

Created by Moscow based duo Stain, MIMPI - mobile interactive multiparametric image is an experiment using generative imagery combined with simple multiuser interaction. Audience has a direct influence over the image by tilting their iOS or Android device. Sound is created ...
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28/03/2013 / Arduino

Like the .fluid project we wrote about few weeks back, "@><#!!! - The life of an overtaxed surface" is a project by Vera Hausmann, Till Maria Jürgens and Vitus Schuhwerk responding to the brief "TalkToMe", initiated by Professor Andreas Muxel at the Köln ...
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08/03/2013 / Arduino, Objects, openFrameworks

Created at the Tangible Media Group at the MIT in collaboration with Sony Corporation, exTouch creates Spatially-Aware Embodied Manipulation of Actuated Objects Mediated by Augmented Reality. In other words exTouch is an interface system that allows you to manipulate actuated objects in space using augmented ...
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21/02/2013 / Arduino, Processing

Created by Hannes Jung during the two week project "Talk to me – Form follows mood" at the KISD (Köln Interntional School of Design), .fluid is a concept study of an interacting, changing surface. Installation uses non-newtonian fluid, an arduino board, a speaker ...
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11/01/2013 / iPad, openFrameworks

Collaborative drawing in 3D space has a long history at MIT and on CAN. Starting in the early 2000's where translucent screen was used to observe three-dimensional objects drawn in space (sorry no link) to our own GD3D app published ...
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18/12/2012 / Arduino, MaxMSP, Processing

Firewall is an interactive installation created by Aaron Sherwood and Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and manipulate expressive visuals. The piece was made using Processing, Max/MSP, Arduino ...
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18/11/2012 / Cinder, Featured

After months of everyone sharing the Leap Motion demo video, the first Developer Kits are making their way into the hands of those that signed up early. Dofl Yun was one of the few to receive it last week, Leap ...
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25/10/2012 / Events

Last Friday saw the latest instalment of FITC's Emerging Technology & Advertising (ETA) event series touch down in Toronto. While labelled rather dryly as a "one day conversation on how technology will impact brands", ETA 2012 brought together an improbably ...
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02/10/2012 / Objects

Developed at the Disney Research labs, Printed Optics is a new approach of creating custom optical elements for interactive devices using 3D printing. Printed Optics enable sensing, display, and illumination elements to be directly embedded in the body of an interactive ...
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01/10/2012 / Featured, Javascript

Italian author and meta-fabelist Italo Calvino arranged a grid of tarot cards as an engine to propel his 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies. The interwoven lines and columns of this grid were used by a narrator to reconstruct the ...
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14/08/2012 / openFrameworks

Created by Ben McChesney at Helios Interactive, is this handtracking gesture experiment using openFrameworks and the latest release of the iisu 3.5 - gesture recognition middleware, compatible with all 3D cameras. The video shows Ben using a grasping hand to ...
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