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Plinko Poetry
This installation uses Python and Processing to scrape and display alternate scrolling lines of tweets from the New York Times and Fox News. When a user drops a chip, it randomly hits pegs on the way down. The word under each peg that is hit is highlighted, with the untouched pegs automatically darkened. Plinko Poetry uses openFrameworks camera color tracking to determine which pegs have been encountered.
When the chip comes to a stop, the user is left with a trail of blackout poetry which is then live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry. Nice!
Lightplot - Robotic Light Painting
This animation is shot entirely in-camera; the figure having been animated in 3DS Max and then plotted by custom built home-made 3D light painting system.
Really interesting making of article here.
Patterned by nature - LCD Sculpture
This is absolutely beautiful. The 90’x10’ “ribbon” winds through the five story atrium of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts; less power than a laptop computer, and the animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each glass pane.
The animations cycle through twenty themes, which range from clouds and rain drops, to colonies of bacteria. The animations were created through a combination of algorithmic software modeling of natural phenomena and compositing of actual footage, and the whole thing runs to a well-crafted backing track. Such a great example of the importance of sound and visual working together in design.
Lovely use of tech. High Definition cameras are installed in the “fashion capitals” of Europe (Milan, Paris, Antwerp…..but not London strangely?!?) tracking passers by and feeding colour data back in real-time. The cameras are connected to Mac Mini’s with color tracking software to log and trend colours based on profiling.
Bonnier Properties - Nice to meet you
Simple idea to improve an eyesore. I would have stopped short of making it socially connected though. Seems to have pushed it over the edge from cute installation to gimmicky nonsense…
Nice physical object oriented projection mapping installation. Great sentence.
Britzpetermann - All eyes on you
Lovely installation. Effect achieved using a high quality projector and semi-matt foil to project the eyes onto the window. The visuals are rendered by WebGL using a shader-sphere effect. Detection is performed by OpenFrameworks and the Kinect.
Tropicana - Brighter Mornings
According to the Evening standard yesterday this was an art installation. Turns out it was a stunt for Tropicana as part of their brighter mornings campaign.
The Trafalgar Sun took six months to create and is 30,000 times bigger than a football. It has a surface area of 200m2 and weighs over 2,500kgs. Its internal light source produces 4-million lumens of light; the equivalent of 60,000 light bulbs, which makes it visible from space.
Cai Guo-Qiang - Daytime Fireworks
This performance from Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang shows how Volatile black powder explosions can be controlled and shaped by computer.
Each set of explosions was calculated to paint a different picture. One series of explosions created black smoke clouds that looked like “drops of ink splattered across the sky.” In another, 8,300 shells embedded with computer microchips exploded in a pyramid shape over the desert.
Tele-present water
Pretty relaxing installation from kinetic sculptor David Bowen. The piece reacts in real time to data collected from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) bouoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands, Alaska.
Hans Op de Beeck - Sea of Tranquillity
Short iPhone film from the interactive artist, allows users to browse through 9 scenes to get a unique insight into a story taking place on a fictional cruise liner. There are no aims, no scores, and no enemies, just pure inspiration and “tranquillity”.
Oleksiy Say - Excel Art
This guy seems pretty handy with a spreadsheet. The average size of these artworks is around 2m, and they’re created solely from fonts, colours, pattern fills, strokes and varying column and cell sizes. It’s great to see applications being used well beyond their intended purpose.
The rest of it is here.
L’Artisan Electronigue - Virtual Pottery
From Antwerp-based design studio Unfold: Users control the virtual wire frame pot with their hands while a green laser and video camera determine the positioning of their fingers.
Once the user is happy with their creation, it is then sent to Unfold’s ceramic printer, which imitates the traditional technique used by ceramicists, whereby the pottery is built by stacking and winding coils of real clay. The pottery can then be fired as normal. Really nice idea, and execution.
