prosthetic knowledge

Kaleidocycle 

Minico have put up some instructions to create your own paper folding toy.

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[note: gif is not my own]

Paper Computing Technology 

This relates to my previous post in a way; a ‘paper computing’ technology developed by the University of Tokyo in which you can edit a piece of special sheet by hand or by computer interface - via DigInfo:

At the University of Tokyo, the Naemura Group is developing paper computing technology, which can automatically erase, copy and print hand-drawn sketches on paper.

As well as using a camera and computer, this system uses a laser and UV light, making it possible to work directly with the hand-drawn sketches using the computer.

So for example, the user can leave only the edges of hand-written characters, creating 3D like text, or draw a figure by hand and color it in automatically.

You can find out more at DigInfo here

Dyskograf 

Interactive sound installation developed by Avoka can let participants create music by marking sequences on a paper disk with a pen, which is then read by the machine - a sort-of Oramics Machine in turntable form:

Dyskograf from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.

DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader.  Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use.  The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.

The installation is above all a tool, which allows the creation of musical sequences in an intuitive way.  The notion of a loop, closely linked to electronic music, is represented here by the cycle of the disk.  The disk passes indefinitely in front of a camera fixed onto an arm.  This substitution for the needle converts the drawing into sound by way of a specific application program  (software).  Through this system, the sequential ordering of music is learnt in a playful way, at the same time creating a unique object, souvenir of the musical composition.

More info can be found here

Ricoh Contactless Thermal Rewritable Laser System 

New tech from Japan can rewrite labels on shipping containers quickly.

While this may seem boring, it could be a step towards rewritable printer paper, reinventing the medium … besides, it looks very sci-fi … from DigInfo:

The thermal rewritable laser media used in this system has been newly developed by Ricoh. It consists of three layers: a UV-blocking layer, an oxygen-blocking layer, and a recording layer. This medium is highly resistant to fading, so it can be used for at least five years, even in outdoor environments.

More at DigInfo here

Papercraft Mechanical Walking Robot 

Ongoing project by kikousya290821 creates a mechanical robot purely from paper and elastic bands - embedded below is a video of the stages of construction:

Here is a video of another attachment - an elastic band Gattling gun:

The project page is in Japanese, but more can be discovered here

Printing Reflectance Functions 

Prototype technique to give flat images on paper depth from real light reflection.

Watch the video below for a better illustration of the idea (it’s impressive):

The reflectance function of a scene point captures the appearance of that point as a function of lighting direction. We present an approach to printing the reflectance functions of an object or scene so that its appearance is modified correctly as a function of the lighting conditions when viewing the print. For example, such a .photograph. of a statue printed with our approach appears to cast shadows to the right when the .photograph. is illuminated from the left. Viewing the same print with lighting from the right will cause the statue.s shadows to be cast to the left. Beyond shadows, all effects due to the lighting variation, such as Lambertian shading, specularity, and inter-reflection can be reproduced. We achieve this ability by geometrically and photometrically controlling specular highlights on the surface of the print. For a particular viewpoint, arbitrary reflectance functions can be built up at each pixel by controlling only the specular highlights and avoiding significant diffuse reflections. Our initial binary prototype uses halftoning to approximate continuous grayscale reflectance functions.

More information and links to resources can be found here

Hieronymus Bosch Papercraft Models 

Files to print out and create some of the weird creatures found in Bosch’s paintings.

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The Solar Annual Report, Powered By The Sun 

A solar power data report document which only reveals it’s contents in sunlight. Video below:

Austria Solar Annual Report, powered by the sun from mnoesel on Vimeo.

Solar energy is the main business of our client Austria Solar. That´s why we thought about how we could put this energy to paper. The result: the first annual report powered by the sun. Its content remains invisible until sunlight falls on its pages.

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Papercraft Tokyo 

Self-taught paper artist, Yumiko Matsui recreates miniature districts of Asakusa, Shibuya, and Akihabara (and also some simple paper figurines of Tokyo inhabitants), all created with simple paper and glue.

You can view more here - including a papercraft recreation of Osaka.

Origami Font by Guan Pucha 

Chinese characters constructed with folding paper:

Character and paper, paper and character.
Through the special method of paper folding to make the covert from paper to character, this is feasible for the Chinese character that with long history and complicated.

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Watching You - Origami Chair

Created from paper sheets of identical pieces. From designboom:

At the international furniture fair singapore 2012 the tokyo-based firm koji sekita design presented their project ‘watching you’ within the young talent zone ‘platform’. composed of paper sheets, the cardstock is scored and folded in a zigzag pattern. Each identical piece is then joined, creating the form of a chair. the strength of the seating object comes from the honeycomb pattern generated from the assembling the individual parts. Due to the flexible nature of the construction, any length of chair or bench can be produced. The accumulation and replication found in the manufacturing of ‘watching you’ is a signature of sekita.

More info and images at designboom here

Paper Note

Paper sculptures of sound waves created from recorded audio converted into a series of laser cut circles. From { Sound + Design }:

Paper Note creates a tangible waveform from laser cut disks of paper. The user records a message, a sound or loads up music, and the system analyses the sound to map each moment to a corresponding slice.

This project was made with Andrew Nip at CIID. We programmed it using Processing. Each Paper Note is made up of around 450 stacked disks of paper. The louder the volume at a specific moment, the bigger the disk. Our algorithm samples the right amount of information from the recording to scale the physical waveform to the size of around 14cm.

Lycopodiumprints by Raphael Hefti

Photograms on photographic color paper using the gently burning spores of the mossplant Lycopdium

Via We Find Wildness

XYZ NOTE

Stylish isometric notepad by Seoul-based designers kam-kam:

It seems that the small as well as the great, in the creative field, are derived from a simple drawing.

This isometric-grid notepad, named XYZ note, would be a good start for such creative three-dimensional drawings.

The cover of the note is a clear plastic with a cube-pattern filled, which partly reveals drawings on the first page. Because of its transparency, the drawing underneath the cover completes the cover’s image. You end up having a new cover every time you rip off the first page.

We have produced an animation, a combination of the drawings, created on this notepad. This animation is the transformation of the electronic sound (VSTi); each frame is in response to its beats and rhythms.
This animation is co-produced by Studio YOG and LOBOTOMY.

More information, including the accompanying animation, can be found here

“Manhattan Furier - Greenpoint Brooklyn” by Michael A Williams

(10x10 gouache, ink & paper on wood)

Click on the image for bigger detailed goodness.

There are other similar works at the artist’s tumblr, artofmw