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Impress – a flexible touchpad by Silke Hilsing

Dezember 5th, 2009 | Data Visualization, Physical computing | Keine Kommentare

Silke Hilsing invented an impressive technic. A flexible touchpad allows the user to create 3-Dimensional spaces to fill up with sound-bowles, easy switch between news and some more. With an up-projektion the result get projected on the top of the soft touchpad.

The impress has 4 kinds of applications.
Application 1: You can put objects in motion and make them sound differently by deforming the surface. Draw a new object with different radius and pitch depending on the intensity of pressure.
Application 2 + 3: Modelling a 3D-object by lower or higher intensity of pressure at any desired position. After Modeling, save the result and compare it with other results in a 3D gallery. Fly and zoom through the gallery by putting more or less pressure onto the display.
Application 4: Squeeze out latest news (RSS-Feeds of different news agencies).
It is an very interessting technic. I think the video explains it very well.

impress – flexible display from Silke Hilsing on Vimeo

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Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos

Oktober 4th, 2009 | Data Visualization, Web | Keine Kommentare

An amazing project by the University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL). I imagine that in future this could be combined with augmented reality apps for Iphone or other mobile devices to visualize cities and places through the perspective of visitors / web users.

This is what the “thenextweb.com” writes about it:

“A group of researchers with University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL) wanted to see if they could build a piece of software that would search the web for images of a particular place and recreate that place in 3D in under a day.
They succeeded, and the team, lead by Sameer Agarwal, created a simulation of Rome using 150,000 images harvested from photo-sharing website Flickr, and build a virtual model within a day. The team also tested the software on the Croatian city of Dubrovnic and were able to recreate the entire old city, including all the buildings and streets, within 22 hours. The principle isn’t new – the team previously developed tools which can create 3D models from a collection of photos, which subsequently evolved into Microsoft’s Photosynth. But while that technology was good, “Using the existing system it would have taken years to recreate a whole city,” Agarwal told NewScientist.”

Click here for static views of the reconstruction.

via thenextweb.com

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Muzorama

August 5th, 2009 | 3D, Animation, Film, Motion Design | 1 Kommentar

Muzorama is a short 3D animation film based on the universe of french illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson (Muzo) born in Rennes in 1960.
I couldn´t find much about this Artist. Some great ideas and produced very efficiently in only six weeks. It is just a little trippy though..