- Light Graffiti
csikz | admin | 2012-05-10 18:41:47 | just working on | read post
This is what we`ve done recently for a commission by Magyar Telekom. It is another drawing application but the visuals look like neon glow. Also pay attention on how we handled the gesture of lifting the "spray" by the multiplication and parallax effect on the hand cursor.
The idea was to make the visuals similar to the traditional light graffiti that you can create with a light source photographed with long exposure. - Snake charmer
csikz | admin | 2012-04-02 19:26:52 | just working on | read post
An old Nokia phone keyboard hacked, connected to an Arduino through series of relays, which was controlled by Max/MSP.
What is it good for? Of course we wanted to control the old Nokia Snake game by recorders! See the results on the video!
Navigate to the project page for more details! - New video of Trinity Kick
csikz | admin | 2012-03-19 01:32:40 | just working on | read post
Just uploaded this improved video of Reconstruct Trinity Kick project. Some thoughts came along while rethinking the project.
One of the inspirations comes from the well-known scene of the Matrix film where Trinity jumps and the time freezes while the camera turns around.
What is engaging in post apocalyptic fictions?
Seeing all the cultural assets destroyed, which ensures our everyday life at a level we all got used to. How to start over when all elements of our civilized world disappear? What is the substance of civilization at all? All the gigantic machineries built for serving our comfort that we all refer to as “big cities”? Or is the civilization interiorized in our mindset? Does the destruction of the physical assets mean an inevitable downgrading of the quality of life or is it rather a chance to make a jump to a new level? A jumping gesture in the emptiness of ruins is a good start. Do you think that it is air what you are breathing in? - Kinect Wings
csikz | admin | 2012-03-10 21:33:33 | just working on | read post
Today`s craziness from KIBU`s Friday`s Hacking session. See what is possible today with just a few hours of hacking! Thanx to Arduino, Processing, Kinect and Synapse and of course the Tiny Wings game by Andreas Illiger!
It turned out to be really enjoyable (and tiring) to play :)
Have a look at the project page for more detaild!
If you want to make your own Kinect Wings you will find the codes and instructions needed here:
https://gist.github.com/2029456 - Egg representation analysis
csikz | admin | 2012-02-07 17:43:11 | just working on | read post
We analysed the advertising graphics used on egg boxes. The original graphic is hidden, they are pixelated to leave more to imagination.
The descriptions are in hungarian.
http://www.basedonpig.com/1000/tojasabrazolas - swan
csikz | admin | 2012-01-28 22:39:47 | just working on | read post
...while researching on visualizations for the bird-man thingy... - One minute dance film
csikz | admin | 2012-01-27 02:30:34 | just working on | read post
We recently finished this one-minute dance film with the title "Corridor". We used kinect depthmap video to make effects over the original video. - How can you turn a man into a bird?
csikz | admin | 2012-01-27 01:57:29 | just working on | read post
Sketch of a minimal installation/game using kinect - converting human skeleton into animal`s. More posts coming about the progress later. - Beyond data ws book - thoughts 1.
csikz | admin | 2012-01-20 02:02:16 | just working on | read post
What I learnt from "Beyond data" ws book brainstorming yesterday:
- Projects can be recycled too (not only domestic/industrial remains)
- brainstorming is nice on ping-pong tables - this was a great adventure :) - ping-pong tables proved to be a ready-to-use meaningful space to make order into ideas - the little child was just making efforts to rise while we worked on rising clear ideas from blurred ones
- Be physical! (It is important and exciting to work with data in general - but if the output is a tangible object it is even more exciting because our primer medium of sensation is the physical world around us) ... data physicalisations
- Intimate, personal - with the concept “take your breath away”
- we all liked the concept without having a complete image of the concept
- although the concept seemed to be pretty simple it also proved to be hard to elaborate when we went into details
- think in systems - yes, that`s true...
- Recreate real social interactions - with granny colours knitting (data granny) probably this was the project i liked the best (at least the thing what i understood of the concept)
- social interaction
- real conversation,
- fair job for grannies
- using the output as art or for some design purpuses (and not throwing away the remains of an installation creating more waste)
- the data source for this project was not meaningful enough
- similar adventure (the social interacion part) from recent exhibitions (budapest): - Eat love – Marije Vogelzang - Beyond data book workshop
csikz | admin | 2012-01-17 20:02:31 | just working on | read postJust started to work on the book of Beyond data workshop.
Thinking about what is beyond data became one of the most important issues for me these days. More specifically it is brainstorm about embodying datasets.
I think it is important and exciting to work with data in general, and when we have a printed or interactive visualization with sophisticated graphics it is still interesting. But if the output is a tangible object it is even more exciting because our primer medium of sensation is the physical world around us. That`s why "beyond data" sounds so inviting.
And another thing: because visualizing data in physical space requires much more efforts than manipulating screen graphic, animation or printed graphic, focusing on tangible objects as output makes the group focus more on the idea itself. This makes the brainstorming more effective to select the strongest ideas and forget about weak ones.
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