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Geometee

Online geometric generative pattern editor created for tshirts in mind. Several presets available for customization, including text editing.

Try it out for yourself here

25 Internet Artists You Need to Know

Complex has produced a list of 25 online artists worth checking out - a good primer for newcomers:

Whether you believe that art imitates life or that life imitates art (or both), there’s one thing we can all agree on—the advent of the Internet has changed the process of art-making and art’s reception forever. In many cases, artists use their work to critique the aesthetic and impact of the digital age, using screenshots, collage, and an extreme combination of mediums to comment on the way we relate to the Internet. While many are skeptical about the place of this art beyond the world wide web, it’s undoubtedly an important new lane in art history. Make sure you remember these 25 Internet Artists You Need to Know and their work next time you’re thinking about your own Internet consumption.

See the whole list here

4D Video

Online browser-based slitscan experiment distorts your webcam input:

This experiment allows you to explore 4-dimensional space using your webcam … try slowly waving your arm before undertaking more radical experimentation in the 4th dimension.

Try it out here

Bombermine

Massive multiplayer Bomberman clone playable in your browser.

Try it out here

Polaroid Cacher 

Student project from Adrià Navarro and DI Shin turns an old Polaroid camera into desktop printer, designed to capture special moments in your online life - video embedded below:

Polaroid Cacher from Adrià Navarro on Vimeo.

The Polaroid Cacher is a camera that allows you to take traditional instant pictures of your digital experiences. It’s an ambient device, part physical and part digital, meant to address the fleeting nature of online interactions.

We believe that our daily online activity –conversations, discoveries, games– is as meaningful as our activity in the physical world and, as such, should be preserved the same way we try to capture every important moment in our life. Especially because most of this experiences will be soon forgotten, lost under layers of information, databases and outdated services.

Given the powerful association of instant photography with memories, people and nostalgia –rather than with photographic quality– we designed our camera as a fictional Polaroid product. One that captures digital media in a traditional analog format, as means to create tangible, durable mementos of our digital life.

More Here

Screenshot-proof images via temporal dithering 

Proof-of-concept code to protect images online - by persistant.info:

Snapchat’s (and now Facebook Poke’s) main claim to fame is that it lets you send “self-destructing” image messages. Setting aside the debate about the uses of this beyond sexting, the key vulnerability in both apps is the built-in ability to take screenshots. Both take a reactive approach, where you’re notified if the recipient took a screenshot, but can’t really do anything about it.

I was thinking about ways of mitigating this issue, and figured that perhaps turning the image into an animation where individual frames are not (or at least less) recognizable would be the right path. This is a variant of temporal dithering, except we’re intentionally pretending like each frame has a limited amount of precision, and only when averaged together is the original image re-created.

I’ve created a proof of concept (source) of this. It loads the image into a <canvas> and generates a “positive” and “negative” frame out of it. The positive frame has a random offset added to each pixel’s RGB components, while the negative one has it subtracted. When displayed in quick sequence (requestAnimationFrame is used to do this every time the screen refreshes) the two offsets should cancel out, and the resulting image should re-appear.

The GIF above doesn’t really demonstrate the idea well, you can get a better idea of how it works in this online demo here, and more info can be found here.

Google BBS Terminal

What Google would have looked like in the 80’s, put together by masswerk

Try it out here

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Web Toys 

In this submission, a collection of online projects to play around with, such as remixing Google Maps Streetview photos that become ASCII art or Little World fish-eye panoramas, draw with text, or remix images with animated emoticons.

You can find out more at Rhizome here

Texter 

Fun browser toy that lets you create text art, drawing lines with sentences you enter into it:

Texter is a little javascript experiment that lets you explore your creativity by drawing with words. This app is an extension of a demo from this book.

This has been made using Javascript and the HTML5  canvas element. You can find the source on Github

Made by: Tim Holman - @twholman

As you can see in the above animations, it appears to work with non-Western scripts too. You can also edit some of the parameters such as size and colour.

Try it out here

GIF 3D Gallery 

Fun experimental web project by akihiko taniguchi where you can place an animated GIF onto a 3D plinth in a virtual gallery room which you can move around (controls are the same as a PC FPS, but controls are available - see picture 2 above).

You will need the URL of the GIF to be able to view it here (you cannot upload a file, but there are plenty around Tumblr and the web to try out)

The above examples are Max Capacity (you can try it out here) and V5MT (here)
[… and yes, the third image is a gif of a gif of a gif in a gif gallery …]

Try it out for yourself here - discovered via Triangulation Blog

Sunlight Graffiti 

Part of the Little Sun project by Olafur Eliasson currently running at the Tate Modern, where participators can create their own light graffiti and locate it online via an interactive sphere:

The Sunlight Graffiti sphere is by artist Olafur Eliasson, conceived as part of his larger Little Sun project. Little Sun, a work of art that works in life, is a solar-powered lamp that Eliasson has developed with the engineer Frederik Ottesen. The lantern is one element of the artwork, but the way it connects us and what it tells us about energy and energy access is all part of the art.

Currently, an interactive Sunlight Graffiti installation is set up at Tate Modern, London, on level 2 as part of the museum’s Poetry and Dream exhibition (28 July – 23 September 2012). Visitors are invited to do a work of art here by dancing, jumping, and writing out loud with a Little Sun in their hand. Their Sunlight Graffiti are captured and uploaded to this site and shown as part of the sphere.

Also presented at Tate Modern is Eliasson’s new artwork Your light movement, 2012, a video about physical movement, light, and life. Watch it here.

‘For this project at Tate Modern – the former power station turned into a museum – I have thought a lot about light as something that is more than just a means to illuminate something else. Light generates action. The Sunlight Graffiti project has been developed to foster human creativity and movement, driven by the power of light.

Little Sun responds to the situation we face today, where natural resources no longer abound. Energy shortage and unequal energy distribution make it necessary to reconsider how our life-sustaining systems function. I see Little Sun as the wedge to open up this urgent discussion from the perspective of art, to raise awareness about the need to improve energy access and the distribution of energy today.’

–Olafur Eliasson

You can look around the interactive light graffiti globe online here

Pareidoloop 

CORRECTION: blech said: The author of the original code is Phil McCarthy, twitter.com/phl / GitHub.com/phl

Online coding experiment by Adam Norwood combines a random polygon generator constantly making shapes along with a facial recognition algorithm - from Adam’s Tumblr:

What happens if you write software that generates random polygons and the software then feeds the results through facial recognition software, looping thousands of times until the generated image more and more resembles a face? Pareidoloop. Above, my results from running it for a few hours. Spooky.

(More about the project on GitHub, and more about pareidolia in case the name doesn’t ring a bell)

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

Kittydar 

Face recognition tech for cats (written in javascript) - online demo allows you to drag a cat photo to be analysed:

Kittydar is short for kitty radar. Kittydar takes an image (canvas) and tells you the locations of all the cats in the image …

Kittydar is best at detecting upright cats that are facing forward.

You can test the demo here - if you want to know more from a programming level, there is more at it’s Github page here

Neticones 

Online net art project can turn a webcam photo into a mosaic made from Facebook icons.

Try it out here