Tag: 3d

This week’s research – 06/04/2018

Thinking this week about echo location, in the context of the space objects ‘talking’ to each other and sensing the distances between themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_echolocation

Found some inspiring projects in A Touch of Code.  Most notably (so far):

  • Markus Kison’s Touched Echo, using sound conducted through bones. Visitors put themselves into the place of the people who shut their ears away from the noise of the explosions. While leaning on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through their arm directly into into the inner ear (bone conduction).
  • WhiteVoid’s ‘unstuck’ augmented game.
  • “Experiencing Abstract Information” by Jochen Winker and Stefan Kraiss
  • And Leonel Moura’s Robotarium. The first zoo in the world for artificial life.

  • Drawing Machine  by Fernando Orellana. Explores the notion of generative art or art that makes art on its own. The piece consists of a three tiered mobile sculpture that is driven by the vibration of a motor.

  • LITERALLY SPEAKING Torsten Posselt, Martin Kim Luge – transforms tweets from twitter-users into the sound of singing birds.
  • Kathrin Strumreich’s fabric machine. Two fabric loops, driven by a motor, create a division in space. Light sensors measure the opacity of the textile.

Love the design and the sounds of these Bivalvia mini synths.

And some musical inspiration for the Space Rock objects from Hatis Noit; especially the way the first track here plays with voice – using various layers, some treated and distorted, some not.

Research and inspiration 17/03/2018

Some links and thoughts from the past week.

This episode discusses the emoji-based augmented version of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights by Carla Gannis, along with the concept of companies and institutions owning the ‘airspace’ or virtual space around  their properties, such as paintings. It also discusses whether we will be able to buy virtual land, as you can already do in Second Life. Particularly poignant in light of this piece I read recently on fastcodesign.com, about ‘digital artists’ hijacking MOMA with AR.

This also sparked some research into RGB-D.
“In the past years, novel camera systems like the Microsoft Kinect or the Asus Xtion sensor that provide both color and dense depth images became readily available. There are great expectations that such systems will lead to a boost of new 3D perception-based applications in the fields of robotics and visual & augmented reality.”

Intriguing short video that makes you wonder if it is CGI or a model / set:
Club Palace (Real or CGI?) – NOWNESS. Inspiration for the ‘set’ around the What Goes Around space objects, perhaps?

Have also been exploring how to network the various sensors that will be attached to the Space Rocks wirelessly, and investigating XBee:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoXbeeShield

Also been investigating the Arecibo message…a short radio message sent into space to celebrate the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 1974.[1] It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13, about 25,000 light years from Earth. M13 was chosen because it was the right size, and was in the sky at the right time and place for the ceremony.


And the response that someone created:

 

 

 

 

And also The Von Neumann Probe (A Nano Ship to the Stars). 
Simply put, a Von Neumann probe is a self-replicating device that could, one day, be used to explore every facet of the Milky Way in a relatively small window of time.