INFOSTUKA UNIVERSE

Forest

FIELD.IO — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:16:06 -0700

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Work in progress; After analyzing and visualizing the festival catalogue data with our processing based tool, we are now generating huge forest scenes with 2-3gb of geometry data, where each tree represents one entry in the database.

This confronted us with completely new challenges e.g. the renderer constantly running out of memory and therefore crashing, which called the whole project into question. After lots of fiddling we found a solution using Luxrender and Amazon EC2 - soon more on that topic on: www.field.io/process

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FIELD.IO — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:17:05 -0700

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The white boxes in the pictures are just debug information, showing the underlying Octree data structure, which is used to optimise all distance calculation in the scene. The original code from Karsten Schmidt´s excellent toxiclibs was ported to Scala and is integrated into our FieldKit.

More on www.field.io/process/flow/studies/mapping-sketches

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FIELD.IO — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:16:52 -0700

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FIELD.IO — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:16:20 -0700

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First sketches for a data based identity design for a film festival in Germany.

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FIELD.IO — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:16:12 -0700

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First sketches for a data based identity design for a film festival in Germany.

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eclipse rcp editor 1

FIELD.IO — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:39:58 -0700

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For the last two or more years we've been happily using and extending our libTweak library to quickly add a graphical interface to our interactive/generative applications.
It also allows to persist/restore a configuration, even with embedded images, type etc and allows various hacky use. We even used this "preset-loading instead of keyframing" technique to create lenghty animations/ films for some of the recent projects (e.g. 1, 2)

This proved to be immensely useful in exploring variations of the algorithms and brought dynamic events into some otherwise relatively linear animations.
However the underlying system couldn't deny its .ini-style/ key-value origins. Which made making more complex models, real keyframing etc. really difficult.

To make a push forward in usability and to avoid re-writing all the lines that libTweak already took, i started exploring the Model-driven architecture approach using Eclipse's EMF and RCP frameworks inspired by Toxi's model driven design posts. The interesting thing about it is that it allows you to define your core data objects in a simple graphical editor and then auto-generates plugins, editors and test applications from it. At the push of a button! :)

So far this looks quite promising!

eclipse emf model

FIELD.IO — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:39:56 -0700

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libTweak: interim camp

FIELD.IO — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:57:28 -0700

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screenshot of the graphical interface auto-generated with our libTweak library for the interim camp project.

libTweak: fluid antagonists

FIELD.IO — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:56:15 -0700

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screenshot of the graphical interface auto-generated with our libTweak library for the fluid antagonists project.

live coding in scalide

FIELD.IO — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:01:10 -0700

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late night technical research for a new project.
this time: live-coding with scalide[1] + fieldkit[2] + processing[3]/ jogl in scala[4]

the idea is simple, instead of continously writing and restarting the code youre working on (and thereby breaking the design-flow as Andrew[5] argues). you simply write a few lines, press shift+enter and whatever it should do happens in realtime a few ms after! (yes, im a bit enthused :)

notice how multiple processing sketches render the same particle simulation. also new behaviours can be written and added/removed at runtime even after the sketch has been started! i created an attractor behaviour on the fly that reacts to mouse events in the first sketch, affecting the simulation in the second too.

the point of all that? although its still a hacky business, it makes testing out new ideas/small sketches a lot more fun. its very useful for interactively developing a broad range of behaviours for animate agents too...

[1] code.google.com/p/scalide
[2] dev.field.io/hg/opensource/FieldKit/ (useable, but really experimental yet)
[3] processing.org
[4] www.scala-lang.org
[5] www.pickledonion.com

Tierra del Fuego 2

FIELD.IO — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:00:56 -0700

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curious where a friend of us is going next week (source: google earth)

rico design

[media:projects/rico] RICO design is a german-based vendor of fashionable handicrafts and home decoration parts, like beads, ribbons, and scrapbooking materials. to give their large range of articles a corporate yet individual style, we built a pattern design application as a generative branding tool. input photographs are transformed into cheerful color rays, ...

nervous ink

[media:projects/nervousink] Drawing is said to be the most intuitive way of expression. The animation software NervousInk is controlled with a graphics tablet – like sketching with pen and paper. More than 20 combinable animation and transition effects create motion clips in real time; for performances, live visuals, or in an installation. Marcus ...

nike id

[media:projects/nikeid] big urban visibility accompanied the launch of nike id studio in the uk: 4 street cubes in central london locations sent out lottery tickets to every available bluetooth device in the area. folks could win a priority appointment with a design consultant to make up their own custom design for ...

orbiter

[media:projects/orbiter] The Orbiter takes possession of all senses. It is a place for visitors to lay down and relax, watching the firmament above them. With a small gesture, just pointing upwards, the visitor can insert new stars into orbit with unique visual and musical characteristics. The player is enveloped by the ...

escape - the science of spying

[media:projects/escape] no-one escapes the spyscanner! in a passage room of the exhibition, everyone who walks like a human being is detected. clever guys crawl or hop through the passage, or transform into animals to escape the scanner. developed for the multimedia exhibition "the science of spying" which invited young wannabe-spies to train ...

bright nights

[media:projects/brightnights] for target´s christmas campaign with european design studio tord boontje, union square park was turned into a magic winter landscape for 4 weeks. seven large floor projections in a row on the footpath of the park created a magical atmosphere and invited visitors to play with several interactive games featuring boontje´s ...

Nelson & Napoleon

[media:projects/nelson_napoleon] To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich held a major ticketed exhibition titled 'Nelson and Napoleon'. On entering the exhibition visitors come face to face with its two protagonists. We created two very large animated projections of the heads of Nelson and ...

tv asahi

[media:projects/tvasahi] in collaboration with tomato

Meteorology Gallery

[media:projects/meteorology] In collaboration with Land Design Studio we created 4 different interactive installations for the national maritime museum's meteorology and navigation gallery. Navigation by Mark Museum visitors use an actual boat tiller to steer a virtual boat on a treacherous circumnavigation of an island. 3D graphics are used to show the view from ...

listening tables

[media:projects/listening_tables] The Horniman Museum in South London possesses one of the most important collections of musical instruments in the UK. 0ver 1600 of their finest and most fragile instruments are installed in the World Music Gallery. To make the collection more accessible and to connect the instruments to the museum's library ...