Secret Powers //

Secret Powers //
Made with openCV addon. Using geometry to detect hands and fingers. (uhuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!)



http://www.openframeworks.cc/gallery/secret-powers

Openframeworks // OF

Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts,freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing.



http://www.openframeworks.cc/

FLONG.

Golan Levin and Collaborators //
web site of Golan Levin, an artist and educator living in Pittsburgh. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University,where he also directs the Studio for Creative Inquiry.

http://www.flong.com/

At this website there is a very interesting essay on 'Computer vision': Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers.
http://www.flong.com/texts/essays/essay_cvad/

REAS //

Let's take a look at the Casey Reas's Processing world (!):

http://reas.com/



Casey Reas (b. 1972 in Troy, OH) lives and works in Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. He is an associate professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.With Ben Fry, REAS initiated Processing.org in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. In September 2007, they published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

lots of interesting things to know:
http://reas.com/category.php?section=works&view=1

This happened //

This happened is a series of events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. Having ideas is easier than making them happen. The Thishappened team delve into projects that exist today, how their concepts and production process can help inform future work and want to encourage the perspectives from the other side of the fence, so will also be inviting curators and commissioners of work to give presentations.




http://www.thishappened.org/

Out of Bounds //

A commission for Designers in Residence at the Design Museum London: Shine the torch at the wall to reveal the secrets hidden beneath. Pay an anonymous visit to the staff office, collection’s store, workshop, roof hatch or plant room.Just as a torch shines light into a darkened space to bring things into focus.



http://www.chrisoshea.org/projects/out-of-bounds/

Chris O'Shea is an artist and designer, creating interactive work for both public institutions and private companies. He creates experiences that playfully challenge our perception of spaces and objects. In 2006 he was the guest curator of the Cybersonica exhibition and in 2007 received a commission for Designers in Residence at the London Design Museum. He is the author of Pixelsumo and co-founder of the event series This happened.

WebCamXtra //

WebCamXtra //
Motion Detection ¤ Color Tracking ¤ Glob Distinction ¤ Pixel Adressing ¤ For the Common Man

Myron is the cross-platform, cross-language, open source, video capture and computer vision plugin. One core C++ object gets cross-compiled as a handful of high level language "wrapper" libraries. The wrapper for Java and Processing is called JMyron. The wrapper for Macromedia Director is called WebCamXtra. The aim of the project is to keep computer vision free and easy for the new media education and arts community.



http://webcamxtra.sourceforge.net/

The Books are on the table //

I'm very happy (!) The books I bought from Amazon arrived yesterday! English versions: The Stream of Life (Clarice Lispector); The Book of Imaginary Beings (J. L. Borges) and Orlando (Virginia Woolf). Let's play!

Ambientes Sensibles. Studio Azzurro

today Guto Nóbrega gave me a book... a book of imaginary things... Ambientes Sensibles. Studio Azzurro. The perfect gift.

Motion Tracking //

Today I was searching for some ways to make a motion-detectionscript for webcam using Processing. I've found some start points...



processing:
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1159143435

http://snippet.seltar.org/

A library:
http://libraries.seltar.org/unzipit/

Blogs:
http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~rudi/blog/?p=6

http://jamesalliban.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/2d-ribbons/

Gaga NY //

Dressed in motion...dressed like a toy(!)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldovlXd2htE&feature=related

It's Aperitivo Time //

One of Italy's most established and iconic brands, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, in collaboration with Alessi, are collaborating with designboom to organize the Peroni Nastro Azzurro Blue Ribbon Design Awards 2009 in the UK.

Peroni Nastro Azzurro has created these awards to offer you the chance to design
pieces for the aperitivo occasion, which are influenced and inspired by the Peroni Nastro Azzurro brand.

published september 28th, 2009:
http://www.designboom.com/contest/winner.php?contest_pk=26


name of design : peroni fork
design by : idan aderka + inbal aderka from israel