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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - WebGL

In this submission, I take a look at a web technology that brings impressive 3D projects into the browser.

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Shadertoy

Online coding community site to demonstrate examples of 3D graphics programming, offering smooth and interactive WebGL rendering in your browser:

Shadertoy is the first application to allow developers all over the globe to push pixels from code to screen using WebGL since 2009.

This website is the natural evolution of that original idea. On one hand, it has been rebuilt in order to provide the computer graphics developers and hobbyists with a great platform to prototype, experiment, teach, learn, inspire and share their creations with the community. On the other, the expressiveness of the shaders has arisen by allowing different types of inputs such as video or sound.

Check out many impressive examples here

C64 YourSelf

Happy Birthday, the Commodore 64!

I’ve posted about this before, but, I think it is worth sharing again to celebrate one of the most important home computers ever …

An online browser-based image converter than turns a photo into Commodore 64-style graphics.

Very easy to use, just drag-and-drop an photo (png or jpg, 2mb max) into the web page and it will convert it - see the top image, the animated gif, for a demonstration (you may need to click on it to see it).

Many thanks to the volunteers above for sending a portrait of themselves: paris87, daph-knee, everybodykiller, noo-oods, migmuffins, kevinhale, veryvaluable, zensaint and chrisdejong

You can try this out for yourself here

Related: Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today’s kids make of it? via BBC News
Prosthetic Knowledge Commodore 64 tagged archive here and here

3DCG 

Japanese site appears to be 3D creative community similar to Pixiv, which hosts viewable 3D models using WebGL modern browser technology.

The above gif does not represent the quality of presentation nor the interactive functionality of the service - it is far smoother and the graphics have a higher definition. You can see the original here.

You can explore the site here - and if you look around, there are other fantastic examples.

Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Television

A piece I have contributed to Rhizome, a small selection of items from this blog’s archive related to the theme of ‘Television’.

You can see the whole post here

Tumblr as a City, With Residents, Events, and … a Newspaper?

The Atlantic has a story about Tumblr having it’s own news site, about itself and it’s community:

About 40 percent of Americans go online to get their news. The Internet is where they find out about the latest machinations of our political leaders, read reviews of a movie they’ve been curious about, or check the weather. In short, we go online to read about what is going on offline.

But a lot happens online these days. It may be all bits and volts, but it’s not other-worldly. And that’s why a new effort by the good people at Tumblr is so exciting. Their plan, as reported in The New York Times, is to create a news site for the things that happen in the Tumblrverse. They’ve hired Chris Mohney of BlackBook Media and Jessica Bennett of the Daily Beast as editor in chief and correspondent, respectively.

Mohney describes his editorial vision for the site by comparing Tumblr to a city of 42 million (the number of Tumblrs — bigger than the population of Tokyo), and he’s got to cover what happens in that city — its ideas, trends, and, even, events.

More Here

Video Pong

Online community and resource for VJs. You can upload looping graphics under Creative Commons licenses to be used for VJ performances by it’s worldwide userbase. It also has an online video mixer using a custom version of the open-source Oynx VJ Mixer:

Share, Remix and Perform

Videopong is a community dedicated to expanding and connecting the world of VJs and video art.

Through Videopong, you can:

• Download, use and remix clips from thousands of video artists in formats ready to go straight into your favorite VJ app
• Upload your own clips with different licensing options, including Creative Commons (creativecommons.org)
• get inspired with our custom online Onyx Online VJ Mixer
• Get a hold of portable hardware server for festivals and events offering all the functionality of Videopong.net
• Take an active part in developing our nonprofit, ad-free community

http://www.videopong.net/

Visually appealing diagram from “Computer Community”, an early study of the potential benefits of computing and network facilities (via arqueologia del futuro)

The accompanying description:

The diagram shows possible educational facilities linkages in Pimlico and South Lambeth, London. Existing and extended cable links are used to connect the computational power of the Source Schools (SS), distributing information to Primary and Secondary schools. With the adaptation of microwave and satellite relay techniques land-line communications will be allowed to deteriorate. The sender’s amd receiver’s capabilities will no longer be confined economically to the static situation - rather the emergence of invisible servicing networks will facilitate hitherto unknown freedoms of location.