Multitouch Audio Project

Het laatste project van NiftySystems waarin Timen Olthof en Peter Peerdeman een multitouch audio programma in Actionscript hebben ontwikkeld die in het filmpje wordt uitgetest op de multitouch tafel in het nieuwe Intertain lab op de VU in Amsterdam. Voor meer informatie zie http://www.niftysystems.nl/audio

NiftySystems - Multitouch Audio Project introduction from Peter Peerdeman on Vimeo.

Van Gogh style Counterstrike map

Interactive Video Object Manipulation

Een project van Adobe samen met de University of Washington. Interactieve object manipulatie in een videobestand, heel indrukwekkend, met een paar klikken met de muis effecten bereiken die vaak uren kosten in programma's als adobe after effects!


Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

DoodleBuzz

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.


DoodleBuzz - work in progress from Brendan Dawes on Vimeo.

EDIT: And another news reading interface: Spectra Visual Newsreader

Microsoft Popfly

Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

I thought Pipes was already pretty cool, Popfly seems to take it to another level as you are able to create all kinds of stuff including games. The mashup editor looks good btw, have not tried to build a 'game' yet though. It seems to be really suited towards the non-technical user, i.e. the possibilities are maybe somewhat limited. But who knows you might be able to create a really great game :)

Overview of things that are possible

PowerRail

What started out as an assignment for the course Multimedia Authoring is now evolving more and more into a real usable product: Our (Timen and mine) PowerRail application. Driven by papervision3d and xml, our application delivers a versatile "railed" 3d presenting tool.

The main goal of our project is to create a way to present content of different natures, such as a educational presentation, a portfolio presentation or a 3d art exposition for example. We are still experimenting with different features to include in the program such as images, text, 3d models and video's. We have created some demo's to showcase the possibilities of our program.

We would appreciate it very much if you guys could take a look at it and maybe share some of your idea's / comments about this project with us!





http://www.power-rail.net

ps. Coming wednesday we are presenting powerrail at the Creative Interactive Computing Symposium in Twente, Hotel Drienerburght! Very exciting!

SourceBinder

When I stumbled upon this I couldn't resist posting it here:
SourceBinder is (as they describe it on their site) "a node-based visual framework for easy prototyping and real-time tuning of Flash based visual applications."














For an example see here and be amazed....

The project is currently in private alpha, but their previous project FlashFilterLab seems like a previous version of SourceBinder.

Korsakow system

Today I was reading about The Moving Image Lab workshop from mediamatic and the tools they are planning to use. Apparently there is a free tool available to create interactive films:

The Korsakow System is an easy-to-use editing software which allows you to publish interactive films on- and offline.

Korsakow-Films are films with a twist

They are interactive - the viewer has influence on the film.

They are rule-based - the author decides on the rules scenes relate to each other, he does not create a fixed order.

They are generative - the order of the scenes is calculated while the viewer looks at a Korsakow-project.

Korsakow-projects can only be viewed on a computer. They are delivered via internet-streaming, DVD-Rom or CD-Rom.

Yahoo Pipes

Maybe this is old news, but I wanted to show it to you anyway. Yahoo pipes:

Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

If you want to know more about how to create pipes check out this video:

Wario Land Shake It Ad

Very original advertisement for the Wii game "Wario Land Shake It". Highly recommended to watch!

http://nl.youtube.com/experiencewii

Interactive comedy: 'The Act'

Recently I stumbled upon a recent example of an interactive video. The Act was supposed to be an arcade game, but (sadly) is unreleased. The gameplay basically consists of turning a knob (!) to influence what happens in a scene. The game features hand-drawn art by former Disney animators.

Anyway, you can view an example below:

Animation

This is the video I was talking about earlier today:



The software I was trying to explain is Anime Studio Pro (how could I forget ;)
If you like you can also check out the other videos from Utrecht School of the Arts / Art, Media & Technology.

Interactive Video of a(-) typical Design Process / Brain Dump

Hey all,

It might well be the case that I will be there tomorrow, at MMA, due to some rescheduling of the appointment I had.

I just got to thinking about the suggestion AE made again, about creating an interactive video as a "Making of...". If I will be able to pick up a camera somewhere, and find some spare time, I'd like to try and make a "making of" the Broad Dikes videoclip (and just for you leechers, this has nothing to do with interaction between females).

Let's see what Friday will bring, as PV will brief us on an illustration and possibly animation job, as to know if I will have some time to work on the above.

Feeling the need to clear my head of all the different, but fun, stuff I am involved in, I might start posting on the blog more often. Lots of "if..."'s and "might..."'s!

Marek

Wii mote as MIDI controller/music interface

Today I stumbled upon an article in Shook magazine that briefly mentioned the wii mote as a music software controller. Apparently the wii mote is an excellent way to control music software. I thought this might be interesting for the people experimenting with the wii mote at the VU. There are many sources available but here are some of the ones I found interesting:

Osculator + Kyma (background info here)
Osculator wii mote manual
Ableton Live + wii mote (there are many youtube videos actually about this subject)

levelHead - 3D Augemented Reality Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks1u0A8xdU

http://www.vimeo.com/1320756

Via Marek.

Interactive Video on YouTube?

Finally, a blog post! This video claims to be the first interactive video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ

It uses what has been dubbed "annotations" (which is a strange name from my point of view), as described on http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=92710.

Cheers,

Marek

P.S. Am I the only one getting the feeling the ICQ folks must have had when MSN came up with Messenger? :-)

Adobe TV

This may be a little off-topic, but since you are also doing video productions and whatnot this might be interesting. Steve Homes shows how to create a 3D scene from a (flat) photoshop file in after effects. Also in the same scene, instead of using the particle system he uses dots (from a font) to create the effect of fireflies flying around. I think this is very cool, especially the 3d scene and the light/shadows. There are also other videos on the site that show new creative techniques. Enjoy.

Balance of the Planet

For the last few days I've been reading some articles about serious games and I came across a game called "Balance of the Planet". It reminded me of the initial Clima Futura idea. Check out the guy who made the game back in the early 90's:



Also a remake of the game is being developed. I tried this remake and it's actually quite boring, but all the formulas being used might be interesting.

Magic Pen

More fun with physics by drawing:

http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/

Physical Exercise?

Switching to English, I'll really try to stop posting this much, at least for now. Two nice examples of a fun, easy-to-use and possibly educational (rather simple) way of introducing physics and related solutions to problems:

Crayon Physics (Deluxe)

Website: http://kloonigames.com/crayon/
Example video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI

Phun - The 2D Physics Sandbox (thanks Steve!)

Website: http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki
Example video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

Godspeed,

Marek