I’ve recently been appointed as Computational Designer at Ravensbourne, which allows me to continue developing open source software for art and design and also teaching people how to make things using software (and programmable hardware). Just as in my TEDx talk about the need for teaching technology and creativity, Ravensbourne has graciously agreed that “Computational [...]
Credits: Production, Art Direction, Illustrations, Animation: SDNA Programming, Animation: PixelPusher Recently I was asked by the visuals company SDNA to work with them on a public art game. This would take the form of an interactive installation, shown around Worcestershire, as part of the 12 Moves Festival of Dance. The idea was to get people, and [...]
I have been commissioned by the Roundhouse as interactive developer on this project, working with artist and designer Joe Hardy to make his vision of a shimmering curtain of light that reacts to people’s presence a reality.
I’ve finally had a moment to release this (much better) version of ARToolkitPlus for Cinder, for both Windows and OS X. Get it here: http://code.google.com/p/artoolkitplus-for-cinder/
Yes that’s right… multiple marker tracking in ARToolKitPlus on Cinder! And, fully configurable, using files loaded at runtime, on WINDOWS and OS X. Dear God. It wasn’t easy… the documentation is like wading through a river of feces and trying to pick out the proper bit of corn. (You’re welcome for that image, enjoy your [...]
UPDATE: THERE IS NOW A BETTER VERSION HERE Well, there you go. I decided not to use OpenFrameworks for my project, after all. I think Cinder looks more promising. So, I spent a few hours today getting to know Cinder, and porting the ARToolKitPlus example to it. This is my first attempt at a [...]
I’ve been working on an interesting project for early 2011 using augmented reality (AR) and Animata (from Kitchen Budapest). I’ve looked at using Processing for it, and Flash, but nothing really speaks to me as far as speed and reliability and flexibility of development. So I looked into OpenFrameworks and ARToolKitPlus, which was recommended to [...]
IMG_3783 Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist Today was prep day for the first One Button Devices workshop for Openlab Workshops, so I dusted off the Arduino and sensors to make this simple “theramin-style” synthesizer using an infrared distance sensor and the Audiuno code form the lovely folks at Tinker.it.
Today (for Creative Pact 2010) I took my little game engine and created a fully working game out of it. I finished some more assets – rocks and shells and things you find near the water, traced from some pictures I took on the banks of the Thames. The goal is to collect the buried treasure [...]
Result – this is actually game-like! Today’s lesson in that things are always more difficult than they seem. Tried adding a MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVED detector to the onSceneTouchEvent() method of my TouchSprites so they could detect when a finger dragged over them and subsequently would knock them about, but had a bit of trouble. Apparently, as I’ve [...]
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