The ITP Show finished up with some nice write-ups on the internets: ny times blog and MAKE.

About a week or so before the ITP show, my Big Screens class had their own show at the IAC Building on their rather large video wall. I’m hoping we set the world record for largest Processing sketch ever. Some photos (video coming soon):

This, as far as I know, was the first public use of the Most Pixels Ever library, which admittedly needs quite a bit of work still.

That fantastic Advanced Beauty project, curated by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything, with audio from Simon Pyke of Freeform, now has a trailer on Apple.com. In HD too! Ooooh, shiny! Take a peek.

The Blu-Ray will be released in November.

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

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

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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.

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. make with processing. more artworks: http://www.4d-screen.de/art-gal/

Cast: frank richter ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1276210/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1275551 http://www.vimeo.com/1275551#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:41:37 +0000 Andy Best http://www.vimeo.com/1275551 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 ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1275551/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1275209 http://www.vimeo.com/1275209#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:36:55 +0000 Andy Best http://www.vimeo.com/1275209 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 ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1275209/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1274531 http://www.vimeo.com/1274531#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:11:10 +0000 iqed http://www.vimeo.com/1274531 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 ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1274531/feed/ 0 http://blog.okdeluxe.co.uk/?p=62 http://blog.okdeluxe.co.uk/?p=62#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:31:41 +0000 Mikkel http://blog.okdeluxe.co.uk/?p=62

Grid Attract / Repulse from okdeluxe on Vimeo.

Playing around with physics and grid systems in Processing.

Cast: okdeluxe ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1274197/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1272071 http://www.vimeo.com/1272071#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:19:56 +0000 postspectacular http://www.vimeo.com/1272071 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 ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1272071/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1271768 http://www.vimeo.com/1271768#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:43 +0000 Alex Stanciu http://www.vimeo.com/1271768 Circlify from Alex Stanciu on Vimeo.

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

Cast: Alex Stanciu ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1271768/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1271723 http://www.vimeo.com/1271723#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:01:02 +0000 Videout http://www.vimeo.com/1271723 Gedankenblasen from Videout on Vimeo.

interactive videoinstallation

Cast: Videout ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1271723/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1270177 http://www.vimeo.com/1270177#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:54:27 +0000 zeh fernando http://www.vimeo.com/1270177 Alice in Wonderland with Processing from zeh fernando on Vimeo.

June/2008 Quick and fun experiment done with Processing: the first 3,000 characters of “Alice in Wonderland”, mapped to a cylindrical surface and rendered with varying radius and rotation properties. Full “Alice in Wonderland” text by Lewis Carroll courtesy of Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11

Cast: zeh fernando ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1270177/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1268899 http://www.vimeo.com/1268899#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:47:37 +0000 Videout http://www.vimeo.com/1268899 Gedankenblasen from Videout on Vimeo.

a interactive videoinstallation programmed in processing. a webcam tracks people and gives them their thoughtbubbles

Cast: Videout ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1268899/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1263937 http://www.vimeo.com/1263937#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:32:53 +0000 shimpei http://www.vimeo.com/1263937 Droppin from shimpei on Vimeo.

Droppin by Public Vacancy Office (Kaori Takemoto + Shimpei Takamatsu) http://p-vo.net/

Cast: shimpei ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1263937/feed/ 0 http://www.vimeo.com/1263182 http://www.vimeo.com/1263182#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:29:20 +0000 Stefan Goodchild http://www.vimeo.com/1263182 Audio Reactive 3 from Stefan Goodchild on Vimeo.

Had some time away from Processing then wandered back to finally improve my cameras. Two different cameras this time, the original one based on a sphere ‘dolly’ and a new one based on a perlin noise location and target. Both cameras have noise applied to the target to create more of a hand held look and the target location is damped so it sometimes can’t quite keep up with what it is tracking. They also bounce a bit based on the low freq FFT levels. Scenes, camera choice, colours are all randomly picked when a new scene is triggered by transients in the soundtrack. Music is Pins & Needles from Tip Hop by Tipper – http://www.tippermusic.net/

Cast: Stefan Goodchild ]]> http://www.vimeo.com/1263182/feed/ 0