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Yesterday the New York Times as well as the Wall Street Journal published an article about a new motion capture device called “Contour” which was apparently shown at siggraph yesterday and which was developped by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman.
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From July 19 to 21 the annual conference “New Media and Technologies of the IT Society” (“Neue Medien und Technologien der Informationsgesellschaft”) took place under the title “Film, Computer and TV”. (more…)
Plasma again. This time Pictoplasma though. A conference on contemporary character design and art will take place from Oct. 11-14 2006 in Berlin. It is organized by Pictoplasma. The conference fee is 190 Euro. Early bird registration until Aug.1 2006 140 Euro. If you still have some money left after registering you can sponsor the upbringing of a character orphan, which means to help a little, flatfaced character to step out into the real (?) 3D world (for already sponsored characters see image above).
Yes we did it: Finally there is a public jReality release (BSD license). jReality is a 3d graphics library written in Java. It is developed at TU Berlin, University of Munich and Citty College New York at the moment. it has already been used in several of our daytar projects like seidesein, ADDeye, or vitruman.
We put a new processing applet with the title “Mahrzipanien” on the daytar art page.
In the blog post “LaTeX and Metafont” two projects which massively scan in books were mentioned. Another mentionable project is the Gutenberg project. Here one can find e.g. the book of (more…)
The internet was also nice before… (more…)
This applet was originally done for another project than just our blog…
but after all this preparatory “eye work” we thought we could publish it anyways. Please visit also our daytar site.
a comment on architecture in different contexts: two videos by Michal Levy and Pierre-Abraham Rochat
This is a follow-up to our holodust post.
“iRomance-Die Romantik der Zukunft” (Romance of the future)– is a 6 min. funny comedy by Jan-M. Studt mixing the aesthetics of 2001 and star wars with the typical aesthetics of commercials. Unfortunately only in german, but may be the mimics and gestures are enough to understand the film…
Via the blog of Tim Bruysten, also featured on hackermovies.com (both links in german)