Archive for July, 2008

Drawing Tablet Library For Processing

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

libTablet aims at becoming a (cross-platform) Java drawing tablet library that plays nice with Processing.
It gives you easy access to your tablets pressure, tilt and rotational data in your sketches/ Java applications.

Since my most immediate requirement currently is to have it working on Mac OS X, it is yet not really cross-platform.
However the plan is to wrap JTablet on Windows to provide a common interface for easier development/ deployment across these systems.

Releases

version 0.1

first draft, mac os x only
» Tablet-0.1.zip

Source

You can get the latest version via mercurial with:


hg clone http://hg.infostuka.org/hg/libTablet/

Useage

Simply create a PTablet object before you initialize your sketch, which you can then use to query your tablet for: pressure, tiltX, tiltY, rotation etc.

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import processing.opengl.*;
import infostuka.lib.tablet.p5.*;

PTablet tablet;

void setup ()
{
    // ATTENTION - new PTablet() HAS to be created before calling size()
    tablet = new PTablet(this);
    size(800, 600, OPENGL);
}

void draw ()
{
    if (mousePressed) {
        float brushSize = tablet.pressure * 100f;
    System.out.println("TILT " + tablet.tiltX + " " + tablet.tiltY + " ROT " + tablet.rotation + " THETA " + theta);
    ...
    your drawing commands here
    ...
    }
}

License

CC - Some rights reserved

Copyright © Marcus Wendt 2008
This library is licensed under the GNU LGPL

 

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magnetosphere

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Magnetosphere es un plugin para itunes®, creado por Robert Hodgin utilizando Processing. Funciona como un visualizador reactivo a la música que suena en el reproductor, cosa que hace rato existe, pero éste debe ser uno de los de mejor estética en su respuesta gráfica y dinámica. Tiene la gracia también que presionando las teclas A [...]

unknown pleasure

Monday, July 7th, 2008

En 1979, el diseñador inglés peter saville diseñó esta carátula para el álbum unknown pleasures de joy division, entre otros del sello inglés factory records (new order).
ahora, casi 30 años después, en este link, y gracias a processing, puedes transformarla según una serie parámetros modificables en un interesante ejercicio gráfico.
peter saville to processing | [...]

cinema redux

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Cinema Redux es un proyecto de Brendan Dawes, director creativo de la oficina inglesa de diseño magneticnorth.

Alice Wang Tyrant: Alarmclock enters Web 2.0?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I don’t know how you feel about getting up in the morning. Still this is one of the biggest problems for many people and countless solutions to that problem has manifested in creative product designs. We see the evolution from the bucket of water to robots, replaying your dreams, that technology is also moving along on that path.

Alice-Wang-Tyrant-Clock.png
It even looks good!

Alice Wang made a great concept, that combines technology with social factors in a very unique and innovative way. This alarm clock begins to call people from your mobile phone, if you don’t manage to wake up. It puts peer pressure on you – if you don’t like that noise in the morning, be sure that you will get into problems on that day, just because your friends once again got that call from your alarm clock. This concept also works, if you oversleep rarely. Your co-workers are alarmed and they can call you up, until everything is fine. Well, isn’t this a Web 2.0 community then?

via Neuerdings

5d-faces in the hyperspace

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
5d-faces in the hyperspace from frank richter on Vimeo.

5d-faces in the hyperspace. make with processing. more artworks: http://www.4d-screen.de/art-gal/

Cast: frank richter

Particle Engine Test #2 – Sudden Motion Sensor

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Particle Engine Test #2 – Sudden Motion Sensor from Andy Best on Vimeo.

In this test, I set the gravity vector to equal the forces detected by the Sudden Motion Sensor in recent Apple Laptops. This means: Tip the laptop and the particles fall that way! Blog Post: http://www.andybest.net/2008/07/particle-engine/

Cast: Andy Best

Particle Engine Test #1

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Particle Engine Test #1 from Andy Best on Vimeo.

First test of my particle engine. Creates random letters when the mouse is clicked. Their velocity is determined by the velocity of the mouse. There is currently support for Gravity, Friction and collision detection with the sides. Blog post: http://www.andybest.net/2008/07/particle-engine/

Cast: Andy Best

vehicle study

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
vehicle study from iqed on Vimeo.

Development is decided by the position of objects. It moves more smoothly actually (limitation of memory of my machine).

Cast: iqed

Grid attract/repulse – particles & physics sketch.

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Grid Attract / Repulse from okdeluxe on Vimeo.

Grid Attract / Repulse

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Grid Attract / Repulse from okdeluxe on Vimeo.

Playing around with physics and grid systems in Processing.

Cast: okdeluxe

Print Magazine cover design: Gray-Scott reaction diffusion

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Print Magazine cover design: Gray-Scott reaction diffusion from postspectacular on Vimeo.

Full making-of story is here: http://postspectacular.com/process/20080702_printmagcover This is an early sketch for the cover design of the August 2008 issue of Print Magazine, a 3d printed sculpture generated using the Gray-Scott reaction diffusion model. The final sculpture displays (and purely consists of) its entire creation process. 2D Frames of the animation are stacked along the 3rd dimension and form a 3d density volume which can then be turned into a proper mesh using the same algorithm used for visualizing MRI scans (Marching cubes). The sculpture consisted of initially 5.23M triangles which I needed to reduce to 1.9M polygons for reasons of extreme fragility. Also please check the magazine website and related flickr set: http://www.printmag.com/design_articles/building_the_cover/tabid/388/Default.aspx http://www.flickr.com/photos/toxi/sets/72157604724789091/

Cast: postspectacular

Circlify

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Circlify from Alex Stanciu on Vimeo.

Based on the Circle Growth idea, this time using an image as source color.

Cast: Alex Stanciu

Gedankenblasen

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Gedankenblasen from Videout on Vimeo.

interactive videoinstallation

Cast: Videout