prosthetic knowledge

Minecraft Reality 

iOS Augmented Reality app lets you place Minecraft creations into the real world - video embedded below:

Minecraft Reality lets you combine Minecraft worlds with the real world! Using advanced computer vision, Minecraft Reality maps and tracks the world around you using the camera, and allows you to place Minecraft worlds in reality, and even save them in a specific location for others to look at. You can also upload your own Minecraft worlds at http://minecraftreality.com and place these in reality.

Minecraft Reality lets you:

- View Minecraft worlds tied to reality using advanced computer vision and augmented reality
- Find Minecraft worlds that others have placed in locations nearby
- Upload your own Minecraft worlds at http://minecraftreality.com
- Share screenshots of Minecraft worlds in reality to Facebook and Twitter

Powered by PointCloud SDK (http://pointcloud.io) which lets you map and track 3D spaces using SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping).

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GoldMosh

An upcoming release of a “family of applications to make datamoshing easy, intuitive, and available for artists and the general public”, written by Sam Goldstein. Demonstration video below:

GoldMosh Demo Video from Sam Goldstein on Vimeo.

The suite is planned for release on the first day of the new year, 2013.

The project has it’s own Tumblr blog (which should announce when it available), and you can follow it here

The Colour Of 

iOS app takes a search term, then creates an abstract collage from Instagram images based on that term:

The Color Of App from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo.

What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with ‘The Color Of’ app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard. You can even explore the creations of other users. Free only on 14 December 2012 launch day, 99 cents thereafter. ‘The Color Of’ app is an art project by independent Singaporean designer, Fung Kwok Pan. It is based on his popular web art experiment to objectively find the colour of things based on Flickr. The iPhone app will be launching on 14th December 2012 for free, and with a price of 99 cents thereafter, based on photos from the Instagram community this time round.

When you search for a term, ‘The Color Of’ finds the Instagram images based on their tags, and overlap them to form an abstract image, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard (with our partners at Sincerely). Colors can also be searched by location or username.

In addition to creating your own, you can explore what the other users have created with the app. The Color Of is an annonymous, free-sharing network where you can view, share or save anyone’s creations.

‘The Color Of’ project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime.

From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300 000 visits. Since thecolorof.com began tracking images created by its users 3 months ago, over 20 000 images have been created.

You can find out more here

Animated GIF in 3D 

Webtoy plays any animated GIF in 3D space in your browser, playing each frame spatially and sequentially from each other. You can use the mouse to move around and change the perspective of the animation.

The first animation above is an example used within the project. Using a GIF made from many images of a human body cross-section, the animation displayed is created from the sequence of the images - it is not a 3D model in itself, more a stack of animated frames next to each other.

You can use any GIF you have on your desktop - not all GIFs will be successful, but I tried out one of Max Capacity’s pieces which works well with the pixellated image - the effect is not too far off like a lenticular postcard.

Put together by thespite, you can try it out here

Metropole Tweetphony 

Compose a simple musical score in a tweet, which can be saved on your account and replayed.

Try it out here

[PS - The example in the above GIF isn’t anything good, just there to demonstrate]

Twefax 

Online web app presents your Twitter feed in the style of the old BBC CEEFAX information system, put together by @JonathanEx.

Discovered by the lovely harri80 - Try it here

Related - the old BBC service has been turned off in most of the UK, with only Northern Ireland left to go fully digital this week. So, to commemorate the end of a very British institution, the BBC have put together some items of interest.

Pages from Ceefax: Into the archives - a slideshow with accompanying cheesy library music [link]

Ceefax: The early days - An interview with one of the earliest workers with the system. [link]

Corrupt.desktop by Benjamin Gaulon 

Software app to glitch any Apple Mac computer’s desktop display. It could also be used as some kind of public glitch art display / virtual vandalism / Situationist act … as demonstrated in a Mac Store in the following video:

Corrupt.desktop [Fnac] from recyclism on Vimeo.

Corrupt.desktop glitch, in real time, the computer’s desktop image. So if you want to glitch your local Apple Store or Apple Retailer simply download the App (from the shop’s computer):

DOWNLOAD Corrupt.desktop [don’t forget to film it!] →

Corrupt.online, Corrupt.video and Corrupt.desktop are using the same algorithm, which consists of a binary alteration of the original data. So technically Corrupt damages the data on a binary level, which result in unpredictable and beautiful results.

A project by Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Benjamin Gaulon, based on Corrupt a web based Glitch Art Software allowing its user to upload and share corrupted images on www.corrupt.recyclism.com.

This project is made with the openFrameworks library.

More Here [including another video ;) ]

Genome Compiler

Software that approaches synthetic engineering with biology as an information technology which is codable. Embedded below is a talk by the CEO of the company that makes the software, explaining the ideas around it:

Life may be the software that makes its own hardware, but where is the compiler? If we plan to start programming life itself, we are going to need a radically different and better tool kit than the one available to geneticists today. Omri lays out a concrete vision for how such a tool would work and for how it would be used to create the bio-products our future needs so badly.

More about the software can be found here

Photogotchi 

Soon-to-be-released digital filter camera app gamifies process with 8-Bit look and a virtual pet:

Photogotchi App Trailer - for iPhone and Windows Phone from CarnationGroup on Vimeo.

Featuring a fast camera with five unique filters in the 8-bit format, users can easily turn their pictures into vintage Gameboy and arcade-style photos.
Not just a photography app, Photogotchi takes its name, and inspiration, from the 90s, after the virtual pet craze of that era. It is also the first app to combine photography and a real-time, interactive game.

“We wanted to create an app that would capture the nostalgia of the Tamagotchi era, that was a big part of growing up in the last decade. We’ve improved upon that experience by mashing up the two things that we love in the age of the smartphone: camera filters, and fun, engaging games.”

More Here [discovered via Zoe Salditch]

Manga-Camera 

iOS app that can convert your photos into Manga-like images:

“Manga-Camera” is the app into comic(manga) whatever photos you take!
Anything will be cartoon. Frames that are available are more than 20 kinds. You can take a piece of your favorite style.

Apple store link here

[Note: Doesn’t work on last generation iPod Touch, but should work on anything iOS 5 upwards]

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps 

Inevitable Tumblr blog of the day, subtitled “The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not.”

It works on various levels - a blog of mockery, glitch art, incorrect information, and plenty of sarcasm.

You can check out the blog here

Autodesk 123D Catch for the iPhone

The powerful cloud-based photo to 3D model service now has an iPhone / iPod Touch app to play around with:

Automatically turn your photos into amazing 3D models with Autodesk 123D Catch. Capture the world around you in a whole new way! Use this amazing little app for free.

-Take up to 40 photos with your iPhone 4/4S or iPad, then submit them to the Autodesk Cloud to automatically convert them into a realistic 3D model that you can view, share, and download

-Touch the screen to set your subject’s focus and exposure for best results

-Connect with the 123D Catch Community Gallery to see the amazing captures other users have shared and submit your own!

-Browse the example gallery to get inspired

-Interactive startup guide walks you through the process

-Control your 3D model viewpoint by moving rotating your device or simply use Multi-Touch view controls

-Receive Notification Center alerts when your capture is finished processing

-Email your finished captures to friends or open their 123D Catch projects

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Augmented Reality Alien Chestburster T-Shirt 

… It’s finally happened …

Put together by FingerFunk, you can buy a T-shirt with the marker, and download a free app on iOS and Android to watch the spectacle - video demonstration embedded below:

More info here

Popsicolor

New iOS app to turn photos into watercolour-like images with a contemporary style. Created by the same guy who made Percolator, and created in 7 days. Video below:

Popsicolor 1.0 from Tinrocket, LLC on Vimeo.

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