prosthetic knowledge

Mind Out 

A room-sized single-line drawing based on the flight pattern of a bee created with robotic drawing system:

Towards the end of 2012, as part of The Festival of the Mind in Sheffield, myself and a small team of technicians, coders and mathematicians developed a drawing system and put it to work. The robots drew one line pattern solutions, the shortest line possible, derived from theories on how bees fly from flower to flower. It ended up covering three walls and the floor of a twenty foot cube in one unbroken line.

More at madebyjones here

3D Pacman Room by Keita Takahashi 

Pacman game designed to be played on three walls and the ceiling, offering disorientating fun - video embedded below:

Via Kotaku:

Ever wonder what it would be like if a single game of Pac-Man was projected on to the walls of a room? Well here’s what it looks like!

The installation was done for the Babycastles Summit at the Museum of Art and Design, and envisioned by Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy.

UBI 

Kickstarter-funded project to bring ubiquitous computing into the home via voice-activation.

The Ubi is an always-on voice-activated computer ready to help. Just plug it in, talk to it and it’ll help you connect with your world.

Ubi is a voice-activated computer that plugs into a wall outlet. You talk to the Ubi and it talks back. It directly connects to the Internet through wifi.

We believe people want to do things when they’re at home - they clean, they fold laundry, they cook, they eat, they spend time with loved ones. These are all things that (for the most part) take up use of our arms and hands. When we’re at home, we’d rather use our limbs for other activities than typing, scrolling, or swiping.

Ubi is short for ubiquitous computer because it’s always on, always listening, always ready to help. It can scribe, listen, analyze. Ubi will either talk back to you the information you seek or indicate information through multi-color lights.

More at Kickstarter here

From Below 

Photography collection by Michael Rohde are images of rooms from the perspective from the ground looking up, to great effect:

Trained on centralize perspectives, the eye struggles for orientation. The work series FROM BELOW by Michael H. Rohde does offer a vanishing point to clearly focus on. However, instead of providing a reasonable arrangement of the picture, it rather contributes to its destabilization. Rohde’s utopian views of interior spaces keenly challenge our perception. The view of the room from below the floor, to be determined only by a mathematically logical concept of perception, at first appears to be easily comprehensible. But then it quickly withdraws itself into a self-contained aesthetic, dynamic in its own right and free of any structuring orientation system.

The virtually impossible total view of a room from down below and the lack of a well-familiar structuring of the motif into different picture surfaces render the furniture and other objects weightless. They appear to be floating and tumbling through the space as though denying gravity. Merely the alert view of the observer supports them as it tries to defend itself against the suggestive collapsing of the room’s interior.

More Here [via iGNANT]

The Paintings of Michael Dotson 

Portfolio of spatial and geometric compositions within a room-like setting.

More Here

J3D - A WebGL 3D Engine written in Javascript

The above image was taken from a demo … inside a browser. A 3D room textured and light-sourced, and maneuverable with mouse and keyboard. Very impressive results.

You can try it out yourself here

DIY Romantic Star Projector via INFMETRY

For $22, you can project a detailed star map in a room:

This star projector project a map of the heavens onto your ceiling and walls with thousands of stars in random order.

Featuring a rotating base with compass-point alignments, it’s possible to set up your AstroStar by aligning it according to your location and the time of the year, so it can project a map of the clear night’s sky all around you. You can also change it to the accurately track movement of the heavens as the year progresses.

More information and photos can be found here

Wireframe Sculptures by Russian Artist Anya Zholud

http://jstchillin.org/daniel_leyva/

Enter you name, website, and play around with the tick boxes to create your own isometric pixel room

data.tron [8K enhanced version] by Ryoji Ikeda