NodeBox 2: Free, Python-Powered Tool Gets Visual Patching, Windows Support
Free tools like Processing and OpenFrameworks have provided elegant, quick coding for live graphics, but their interfaces have tended to be code-based. One exception has been the Mac-based Field, which provides graphical patching. Now, you can add NodeBox to that list. This free graphical creation toolkit, built on Python, had ... read more.
Natural, Drawn Shapes and Augmented Reality; iPhone Demo
The buzzword "augmented reality" has come to be applied to everything from simple cubes mapped on markers to compass-driven locative overlays. And if that's all you ever saw augmented reality do, you'd be forgiven for being... well, bored, frankly. By contrast, here's a demo that shows some real expressive potential ... read more.
Augmented Mural: Hand-Illustrated Landscape Comes to Life, Digitally
Just because you have computers doesn't mean you have to stop drawing and painting. It's an obvious revelation, but merging physical and virtual technologies is an art in itself, one that's just beginning to blossom. To bring environmental messages to life and illustrate the profound connection of the city of San ... read more.
Love and Modular Synths: Animation Behind the Scenes
Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo. For another way to visualize sound, over the summer Brazil's Bam Studio sent us an animation imagining modular synths connecting to one another in an electrical, energy-filled trance. The animation is fantastic and injects plenty of traditional techniques into the digital work. Co-director William Paiva ... read more.
Computer Vision Markers, Designed by You – Not Ugly Patterns
Pens and pencils out - it's time to call back those art skills and start drawing tags. Computer vision is all the rage again. One assumption seems to be that you'll know the technology has evolved when markers - graphical identifiers that allow the camera to more easily spot control points ... read more.
Rhonda, 3D Drawing Tool, Releases Demo Video and Open to Testers
Our mind-body connection is fundamentally wired for three dimensions, something we express every time we move through space. (Okay, granted, my brain may have unwired itself sitting perpetually at this computer - dance floor, beware. But it is our natural state.) The problem is, computer interfaces have been trapped in Flatland ... read more.
Music Video Inspiration: The Dead Pirates – Wood, by McBess and Simon
There's no supporting lesson to go with this clip, just an extremely good animated music video. Enjoy! (Warning: Stylized cartoon boobies.) WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo. Thanks Karl. read more.
Images from OFFF: When Designers Make MacBook Graffiti, and Other Pictures from Portugal
The OFFF Festival, held last week in Lisbon, Portugal, has to be one of the most visually stimulating places I’ve ever been. Herds of bright-faced, young, handsome European artist boys and girls pack by the thousands into an old steel mill. In a cavernous, resonant ... read more.
Weekend Inspiration: Kraak and Smaak Flipbooks and Other superelectricvideo Visual Goodies
Yes, speaking of the visual power of flipbooks, Ivan points out that Kraak and Smaak have just made a big splash with an ingenious new music video making surrealist plays with space. It uses copious, cleverly-placed flipbooks throughout. Now you have two challenges: one, ... read more.
Orba Squara – Gravel: Detailed, Motion Tracked, Single Shot Music Video
Some lovely, light-hearted motion tracking and compositing here from Lovely Productions. ORBA SQUARA "GRAVEL" MUSIC VIDEO from LORCANFINNEGAN on Vimeo. Apparently for this type of head tracking you need 8-12 tracks to be visible. This was achieved using a skullcap covered with different colored balls. read more.
