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Shape-shifting Table from the MIT Media Lab

April 17th, 2014 | Robot

Transform_interconnection_MIT Shape-Shifting table

Behold the new shape-shifting table created by the folks at the MIT Media Lab. The idea is relatively simple: a camera picks up motion in one place and transmits that motion into a new 3D space using a system of blocks attached to motors.
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As you can see in the video, the execution is extremely impressive.
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The whole system works in real time, with hardly any discernible lag.

The project titled, “Transform,” was created by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer, overseen by their professor Hiroshi Ishii.
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“A pixel is intangible,” Ishii told Dezeen. “You can only use it through mediating and remote control, like a mouse or a touchscreen. We decided to physically embody computation and information.”

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The implications for this technology may be far-reaching. I had a discussion with visual artist Ashley May recently about possibilities to further connect people from a distance. You may already use Skype and FaceTime to have realtime conversations with your friends and family across the world, but currently, there is no way to reach out and physically touch your loved ones. Maybe technology like the shape-shifting table (or its future models) will allow you to hold your friend’s hand, or give them a hug… Distance seems to becoming irrelevant in our ever more connected world.

-RSB

“Box” – A Projection-Mapping Project from Bot & Dolly

September 24th, 2013 | Robot

Box from Bot and Dolly

Bot & Dolly is a self-described “small company with big robots.” Specifically, they’re an engineering and design firm that is attempting to use their “big robots” to revolutionize filmmaking. This recent project, known simply as “Box,” implements the 3D projection-mapping process to create a truly magical demonstration.

Projection Mapping is a rather old concept (dating back to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in the late 1960’s), but it has recently come into prominence with the development of specialized hardware and software. Almost any surface can be used to display the 3-dimensional images, so this technology has wide-ranging applications.

It will be exciting to see what this design firm produces next. Find more robotics at Bot & Dolly’s site.

-RSB

Fabergé Fractals from Tom Beddard

May 21st, 2013 | Space

Fabergé-Fractals-1 from Tom Beddard

Fabergé-Fractals-2 from Tom Beddard

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Tom Beddard created these illustrations using his custom WebGL 3D fractal creator.  This form of algorithmic art is created from fractal objects, which are “various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size.
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It seems logical that Tom Beddard would enter this form of art, considering he completed a PhD in laser physics before moving into web development and design. From the artist: “I’m interested in how equations and formulas can be used to create interesting, unpredictable imagery.”

From Fast Company: “Beddard doesn’t write the actual mathematical equations himself — for that he goes to the geniuses on FractalForums.com. Instead, he just… explores, using his custom software. ‘You get an intuition about what equations lead to interesting results,’ he says. ‘Everything in ‘Surface Area’ comes from slowly changing just one parameter. And when it moves in and out of phase with some of the other parameters, certain structures pop out: some organic, some geometric, some classical and tree-like.
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I think this is about as scientific as art can get…

For more from the artist, go here.

-RSB

[via But Does It Float]

Digital Art from Adam Martinakis

April 24th, 2013 | Robot

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“The Headache”

150×150 cm – Printed on metallic pearl glossy photo paper, mounted on dibond.

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“Love for Light”

120×70 cm – Printed on metallic pearl glossy photo paper, mounted on dibond.

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“The Point of No Return”

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“Accept and Deny”

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“Fragmented Identity”

150×150 cm -Printed on metallic pearl glossy photo paper, mounted on dibond.

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“The Inevitability of Time / Despair”

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“The City Men”

65×100 cm – Printed on metallic pearl glossy photo paper, mounted on dibond.

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“The Power Game”

Adam Martinakis is the Polish/Greek artist who created these slightly frightening digital illustrations.   Almost all of his work has a sort of futuristic tension, or uneasiness, that I can’t seem to shake.
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 A real chill permeates through all of the pieces.
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I particularly like ‘The Headache.”  I’m sure if you have ever had a migraine, you might be able to relate…  I think it would be great if one of these could be made into a real sculpture because a show of his work in a museum would be quite the experience.

Adam currently lives and teaches art in Connock, UK.
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 For more of his work, check out his site.

-RSB

Graphic Design from Maiko Gubler

April 17th, 2013 | Brain, Space

Maiko Gubler

Maiko Gubler

Maiko Gubler

The Swiss-Japanese artist Maiko Gubler belongs to the creative group in Berlin, originally moving to Germany because she was “charmed by the rawness, the undefined space and the inherent history of Berlin in the 90s.”  She works in a variety of mediums — illustration, sculpture, 3D modeling, and graphic design — and all of it is well crafted.
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The images above are fantastically crisp, driven by blue skies, clean lines, and bright tile.
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The melting metal reminds me of gallium, which will turn liquid in your hand (at 29.76 °C  / 85.57 °F to be exact).

Find more from Maiko here.

-RSB

[via But Does It Float]

Iron Man 3D Computer Technology Available

August 28th, 2012 | Robot

The time has finally come to control computers just like Tony Stark from Iron Man.  For ~$70, “The Leap” is a mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen all-in-one.

Get it at this link: Leap Motion Control 

 

From the Leap website:

“This isn’t a game system that roughly maps your hand movements.  The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market — at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter.”

I imagine the software will lag behind the hardware (i.e. kinect), but it will catch up eventually, and we’ll have some very cool applications for this — Iron Man-esque design, gaming, sculpture, robotics, surgery, and more.

Check out this video for some more ideas:

I can’t vouch for the product because I’ve never used it, but you can now Purchase the Leap Technology here:

Leap Motion Controller, Gesture Motion Control for PC or MAC

-RSB

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