prosthetic knowledge
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CraftStudio
Described as “a game to make games” … or a real-time collaborative game-making tool for the MineCraft generation. Here is a trailer featuring it’s developer, Elisée Maurer:
Games with user-generated content like Minecraft, Little Big Planet or Trackmania have made it clear that lots of gamers are creative at their heart and that, provided with the right tools, you guys can and want to build awesome stuff.
User-made maps are great, but we can do better! Introducing…
Real-time collaborative game-making, for the massesCraftStudio is a multiplayer platform to create games and interactive movies. It’s about empowering gamers and blurring the line between playing and creating.
It makes a few trade-offs (a low-poly, pixel-arty look) to allow gamers with no particular experience to:
- Create, paint and animate 3D models (characters, objects) out of blocks.
- Craft infinite maps (think Minecraft’s creative mode), painting your own blocks to create whatever universe you want.
- Give life to their worlds using a visual scripting system.
It’s all real-time, you can collaborate with friends or strangers over the Internet. You can set up your own server or join an existing project.
It’s currently in Alpha build and Windows only, but you can get hold of it and find out more at the project’s website here (and more info at it’s old IndieGoGo page here)
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Visual Smash Up by Parag K Mital
One of many projects by the author experimenting with real-time video processing of ‘mosaicing visual content’. The end results are somewhere around hallucinary Cubism, datamoshing and moving collage - video below:
Visual Smash Up from Parag K Mital on Vimeo.
We present a system for realtime mosaicing of visual content. The system learns objects from the camera image and displays the resulting visual mosaic. Only unique objects are learned creating a hallucinatory resynthesis of the original camera image. For instance, all keyboard letters are replaced by only a single letter since based on purely visual appearance, a single letter is unique enough to portray the keyboard.
It is worth checking out other projects by Parag, including an iOS app which can do something similar with your photo images. Oddly, it requires you to allow location data to be available which seems irrelevant, so I didn’t test it. The app, though, is free.
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RGBDToolkit - Workflow for Kinect + DSLR Filmmaking
Code released to combine a digital SLR camera with a Microsoft Kinect to create higher definition visuals with depth data. The effect is similar to the holograms seen in Minority Report.
An example of it’s usage has been previously covered on this blog with an interview with Golan Levin using the technology.
The software is available (for Mac and Windows) at it’s official site here, and you can follow developments at the project’s own Tumblr blog here
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Tele-Present Water by David Bowen
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I rarely use the phrase ‘mind blown’, but this is one of those rare occurrences.
An art installation which combines real-time data, mechanical puppetry, and a physical grid representation usually employed virtually with computers:
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This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46246, 49.985 N 145.089 W (49°59’7” N 145°5’20” W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from halfway around the world.
Link to the artist’s website for this work can be found here
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KinectFusion: 3-D Models in Real Time by MicrosoftResearch
Microsofts official take on using the Kinect hardware for real-time 3D modelling:
KinectFusion takes live depth data from a moving depth camera and creates high-quality 3-D models in real time. The system enables a user to scan a whole room and its contents within seconds. As the space is explored, new views of the scene and objects are revealed and fused into a single 3-D model.
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Google Earth Now Shows Rain and Snow in Real Time (via Fast Company)
What the … ?!?!?!?
The newest [feature] is the clouds layer, which now shows rain and snow in real-time weather patterns, across the globe. After enabling the clouds layer, you can just zoom in to any location you want, provided Google has supplied the layer for the part you want to see. So far, that’s limited to just parts of North America and Western Europe, but that includes some of the rainiest places I can think of, including the Pacific Northwest and the UK. By enabling the radar layer, you can see where the precipitation data is available.
Real time!
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3D Capture at 60fps by Kyle McDonald
The overall effect is accidentally amazing:Running the PS3Eye at 640x480, 60 fps in Open Frameworks openframeworks.cc
This is an open source project, but the core is going through a lot of development right now. Check out the source code.google.com/p/structured-light or download the capture and decode applications code.google.com/p/structured-light/downloads/list
If you’re interested in getting started with structured light, I’ve written an instructable describing how to use a simple decoder application to make a 3D scan instructables.com/id/Structured-Light-3D-Scanning/
All except one of these were recorded at 60 fps, and uploaded at 30 fps (so every other 3D frame is dropped).
Playlist:
Dancing in front of a white wall (full body)
Awkward skit (portrait + sound)
Drumming (fast motion + sound)
White wall (showing waviness)
Chris Sugrue (portrait test @ 15 fps)
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SSAO Consctuctivist Art by steve mason
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untitled 246 by Eduardo Omine
A video for a song. Code and music by me.
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How to Add Google Real-Time Search to Your Bookmarks … Here’s a link you should be able to drag up to your frustrating little Chrome bookmark toolbar, or to any browser’s bookmark bar, for real time Google search.
Click and drag this little puppy right here —> Real-time search
Highlight a word or phrase on any page and then click that button, or just click it freestyle and enter a query. Then you’ll see the freshest search results on the internet, per Google, including new web pages, Twitter messages and sometime soon posts from Identica, Facebook and more.
From this article here.
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TypeStar by Scott Garner
This is a screencast of a Processing sketch I developed called TypeStar. It’s basically a karaoke machine that renders lyrics in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes.
Stand-alone application versions along with source code are available here:
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How to try Google Real-time Search right now - The Next Web So, Google has finally bitten the bullet and launched Real-time Search. While it won’t yet show up by default when you search, you can trigger it easily. Here’s how…
Simply search for something and then add the following text to the end of the URL: “&esrch=RTSearch”
The trick doesn’t work for every query, but for searches where there are a lot of results you’ll find a small, frequently updating box somewhere among the first search results.
In practice the new box works well, spitting out new content every couple of seconds. It could do with being a bit larger though – the box can be difficult to spot, especially as its placing on the results page varies.
By Martin Bryant from The Next Web
![Google Earth Now Shows Rain and Snow in Real Time (via Fast Company)
What the … ?!?!?!?
The newest [feature] is the clouds layer, which now shows rain and snow in real-time weather patterns, across the globe. After enabling the clouds layer, you can just zoom in to any location you want, provided Google has supplied the layer for the part you want to see. So far, that’s limited to just parts of North America and Western Europe, but that includes some of the rainiest places I can think of, including the Pacific Northwest and the UK. By enabling the radar layer, you can see where the precipitation data is available.
Real time!](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/prostheticknowledge/879290470/1/tumblr_l6daofgyNU1qav3us)
