Interesting bits that have caught the eye(s) of the NYT this year include:
Eye-recognition advertising technology… Bicycle Highways… Man-made Trees… Zombie defense strategies… and more.
Not necessarily the most mind-blowing stuff in every case, but many are things that I had not seen in 2009…
A nice opening of the Year End ‘Lists’ season…
Here’s the link.
Via Neatorama. Sniff projects a CGI dog in a shop window, interacting with passerby. The dog was created in Blender, the open-source 3D suite which is interesting; been thinking about learning it.
People on the sidewalk are monitored by an IR camera in openFrameworks. In oF each individual person is isolated and assigned a unique id [...]
More inspiring work using the Processing visualization language. Processing.org has lots on show, here’s just a few: Balldroppings is a delightfully simple environment where you create soundscapes with bouncing balls.
Terre Natale (Exits 2) is a six screen installation making rounds in Europe. (Joy Division, anyone?)
Terre Natale – Population Shift (Graph) from Stewdio on Vimeo.
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