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).

More 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

Silk 

Two highly-polished generative drawing web toys by Yuri Vishnevsky.

New Silk is symmetrical drawing - simple, yet the results are satisfying.

Silk turns your input into a beautiful flow that travels to the side.

More about the work can be found here - scroll down and you will see info and a link to an iOS app of this project.

Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition

Not so much Glitch Art, but a way to create your own error-looking iOS homescreen, your own interface aesthetic piece, or simply to prank someone - by squeekycleanideas:

Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition

Step 1) take screenshot of the lock screen with a notification showing (the more the better)

Step 2) make screenshot your homescreen

Step 3) open a folder

Step 4) take screenshot of open folder

Step 5) make screenshot your homescreen

Step 6) take screenshot

Step 7) make screenshot your homescreen

* To take a screenshot of your iPhone, hold the home button and press the power button to snap the shot

Once you have completed these steps, you will have successfully made one of the most intuitive interfaces incredibly confusing. There is something very fun about trying to understand exactly what you are seeing at any given moment.  My favorite, at this point, is opening a folder.  As the folder opens, and the icons would normally fade out, in this case, they crossfade with fake icons in their place.

Experiment with any combination of the above or add other screenshots to start with.. maybe the mail or calendar app. Let me know if you come across something exciting :)

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]

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.

More Here

InstaCRT - Real World Camera Filter 

iOS app can take photos which are then ‘filtered’ by appearing on old black & white CRT display screen, which is then snapped by another camera and sent back to the user. Here is a video embedded below that better illustrates the process:

You can read about the development of the idea here, and, in the course of testing the app, the results were posted on a Tumblr blog here.

Piksel Bacteria 

iOS Augmented Reality game where red pixel bacteria feed on edges, and is based on a scientific discovery from playing an Atari game:

PikselBacteria is an augmented reality game for iPhone/iPad. It focuses on the bacterium pikselum. The bacterium was discovered in 1985 in the USSR by the scientist Lars Rodkov. He first thought he found a glitch in a bootleg of river raid (an atari 2600 game). But then he discovered, that it was a bacterium living in displays. PikselBacteria are feeding on pixel-edges. They are very rare. Therefore Rodkov developed an attractor to approach and cultivate these bacteria.

Based on his research, And-or developed a game in which you may grow these short-lived bacteria with your camera.

You breed the short-lived bacteria with your camera. Give them food by taking them to an edge and start moving the camera along this edge - and the bacteria will breed instantly and take you to the edge.

Gain research points in growing the bacteria as long as you can! Your highscore shows that you are an avid researcher and observer. Press the icon in the lower right corner of the display and send a picture of the sighted bacteria to the website! Or store it in your photo album for proof.

More information, and links to download the free game, can be found on the project’s website here

The Grix

iOS pixel art app developed by eBoy and Felt Tip Inc, with a focus on tileset creation. From Creative Applications:

The app allows you to make your own pixel tiles and arrange them to create beautiful pixel art. The Grix is fast, fun, simple, and surprising. Conceptualised around clusters rather than individual pixels themselves, the task is to build yourself a little library of pixel tiles which you can duplicate and combine with others. Colour presets are included so you can browse through different colour compositions to test which ones work best for your compositions.

More info, and video demo, at Creative Applications here

Circuli 

Online generative ambient sound generator:

Circuli is a generative musical instrument conceptualized and developed by Batuhan Bozkurt.

• Circles grow at a constant rate.
• No two circle can overlap.
• Bigger circle pushes and shrinks smaller circle when in contact.
• A circle “pops” and makes a sound when its boundary intersects with the center of another circle.
• The pitch of the sound is determined by the position of the circle on the background. Bigger the hole, higher the pitch.
• The envelope of the produced sound is determined by a number of parameters including final circle size and time of interaction between two involved circles.

Here is a video of it in action (which is also an iOS app):

You can play around with this sound toy here, as well as find links to the App Store

Pixel Pix

iOS app to create pixel art portraits - free for a limited time:

Pixel Pix turns your photos into pixel art masterpieces! Six retro-funky filters and more than 100 pixel stickers and backgrounds help you turn your boring photos into a pop art creations.

- Turn your friends into goofy cartoon versions of themselves
- Filters like GAMEKID, COMMANDER64 and SUPER 8 BIT make your images look like retro-videogames
- Pixel Pix portraits make great avatars and profile pics
- Stickers include eyes, noses, mouths, unicorn horns, warrior helmets, steampunk goggles, kitten ears and 12 different styles of mustaches!

Available from the App Store here - created by Ben Brown