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3D motion capture

SIGGRAPH 2010: Organic Motion from Core77 on Vimeo.

What you need to know about Eye Tracking

What you need to know about Eye Tracking (New version)

View more presentations from Harry Brignull.

see #5 review: Hannes Koch, rAndom International

London-based art and design collective rAndom International was founded in 2002 by Hannes Koch, Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass. rAndom International have developed a series of artistic projects and installations that aim to re-interpret the “cold” nature of digital-based work by providing the viewer with the opportunity to have a more hands-on experience with technology. More recently, their work has investigated the potential of adding behavioural qualities to usually in-animate objects and environments. Apart from experimental works rAndom realizes commissioned works for clients such as Philips, Fiat and Nokia.

What does it mean to be a pixel?

- www.random-international.com

Examples:

Sticky - Instant labeling tape
Was designed as a simple, customisable, do-it-yourself signage system. By "blacking out" elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations. Think re-naming your street after your loved one, moving house and labelling boxes, putting up official-looking signs or teaching your kids how to make letters...rolls are 65 metres.

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PixelRoller
PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.

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Temporary Graffiti Light Cans
The cans were originally commissioned by and developed for the Nokia Leave No Trace tour in 2005 / 2006. Based around the ‘contemporary’ graffiti capabilities of the LightRoller, we wanted to make part of the experience more accessible to the audience; following the success of the light pens that were part of the first presentation of the LightRoller, we further explored the ergonomics of the classic graffiti tool: the spray can. After some refinements,the aircraft grade aluminium cans look and feel like their analogue counterparts, just that they are working with nothing but light.

Temporary Graffiti: rAndom vs 3TTman and from rAndom International on Vimeo.

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Temporary Printing Machine at Kinetica

Temporary Printing Machine Limited Edition from rAndom International on Vimeo.

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Swarm Light Chandelier

SWARM Light Chandelier from rAndom International on Vimeo.

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Fade to light installation
An awareness of the kinästhetic power of mirrors and light is the dominant characteristic that has been developed by the interactive art work ‘You Fade To Light’. It engages directly with aesthetic ideas of kinästhetic learning by actual physical involvement. But by learning it is not suggested that the work is in any way didactic, since most creative learning in life is developed through participating in play.

You Fade To Light / edit 1 from rAndom International on Vimeo.

http://www.random-international.com/you-fade-to-light-milan-2009/

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Audience. Installation
In February 2010, rAndom went to the US to install the first copy of the Audience edition for a private collection. The installation is laid out on a long stretch of a custom designed plywood floor. For the first time it was possible to install it in a way that the mirrors are creating an autonomous play of light patterns on the wall.

Audience February 2010 - Unedited from rAndom International on Vimeo.

http://www.random-international.com/audience-private-collection/

Further Projects:
As part of the Honda F1 Drivers day for Rubens Barachello, rAndom international were invited to develop a site specific work to celebrate the end of an era of F1. The result was a 7x3m phosphorescent race track, the only F1 race track in Buenos Aires, albeit suited for miniture 1:24 scale F1 Radio controlled cars. The cars were custom fitted with UV diodes which left the racing line illuminating in the dark.
http://random-international.squarespace.com/buenos-aires-race-track-honda/

Resources:
http://www.pixelsumo.com/

see #5 Review: Gideon Obarzanek, Chunky moves

Gideon Obarzanek from http://www.chunkymove.com/.

Founded in Australia by choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, his company Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Obarzanek’s works have been diverse in form and content and include stage productions, installations, site-specific works and film. His multi-award winning works have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world in the U.K, Europe, Asia and the Americas."

Chunky moves was inspirated by the book "Painting by Numbers",
#Dancing Agent States.

Track Mouse Activity On Your Computer

"Anatoly Zenkov provides this nifty tool (Mac and PC) to track your mouse pointer. Really simple. Just start it, let it run, minimize the window, and carry on as usual. In the end, you get this image that looks something like a Pollock. Circles show areas where the pointer didn't move while the tracks show movement."

via: Track Mouse Activity On Your Computer | FlowingData

Audience

Royal Opera House London- Audience from rAndom International on Vimeo.

An interactive installation by rAndom international.

Citysense - location tracking

Citysense is an innovative mobile application for real-time nightlife discovery and social navigation, answering the question, "Where is everybody going right now?"

Citysense shows the overall activity level of the city, top activity hotspots, and places with unexpectedly high activity, all in real-time. Then it links to Yelp and Google to show what venues are operating at those locations. Citysense is a free demonstration of the Macrosense platform that everyone can enjoy.

Citysense - Powered by Sense Networks

see #4 | Additional links: Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin's personal page.

Flight pattern
The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
2.088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey.

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House of Cards
Lasers and sensors are used to scan the band Radiohead into a three-dimensional particle-driven data experience. The code and data are launched on Google Code as an open source "music video without video" project.

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New York Talk Exchange
Visualizations for the New York Talk Exchange, a project by the Senseable City Lab at MIT for the MoMA.
New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of AT&T long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.

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More projects can be found at his portfolio.

Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep

Essentially a very smart 3D pedometer, the Fitbit clips unobtrusively onto your jeans or bra strap during the day and figures out how far you've gone and how many calories you've burned. The $99 price tag, though, is justified by some serious added functionality. Taking cues from the Wii and the Nike+ iPod system, Fitbit has enough logic to distinguish between walking, running and riding in a car, and syncs the daily results with the user's computer, posting them to a socially networked website. Moreover, it analyzes sleep patterns when worn at night by detecting REM-induced tremors.

Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep

RunKeeper

Mobile Tracking and Online Displaying Runs and Bicycle-Rides in Google-Maps with the GPS iPhone: www.runkeeper.com

Via Where the Hell is Alex?