Archive for September, 2005
Bit of an old project but I fell upon it today and thought I’d have a play.
Here’s one of Texone’s projects tree, thought I’d stick interactivearchitecture.org into it and see what it creates. Well it produced a very dense forest of digital structures but thats enough about IA.O
Texone have made a number of processing applications which you can check out at their website.
tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it’s url and transforms the syntactic structure of the web site into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. first each tree is initialized, than all html links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed.
the first tree corresponds to the domain; according to the syntax of the web site each further tree that builds up represents a sub page including all existing elements. the color of these trees reflects the color values of the domain and its sub pages.
tree is a translation program. the simulation of real space by software as a starting point and basic question characterizes the search for an algorithm (design specification) which illustrates a real tree. tree interprets each html page as a design specification; the html space determines the algorithm and generates the visual world of the translation beyond simulation.
Here’s an explanation of how it works
September 12th, 2005
The Blog’s been a bit quiet for a while since I’ve been having a well deserved break in Spain enjoying the mighty La Tomatina Festival where 30,000 people from around the world came together to have a Giant tomato fight and then once I recovered spent a while in Valencia and Barcelona enjoying the food, sunshine, drink and some magnificant Architecture.
Here’s some Highlights
La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies Valencia
or City of Arts & Sciences is an ensemble of five areas in the dry river bed of the now diverted River Turia in Valencia
Designed by Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava and started in July 1996, it is an impressive example of modern spanish architecture.
Check out the 5 Areas if you ever get a chance, and have a walk down the dry river bed that runs through the city which is covered in gardens, fountains and greens. Its a stange experience to be walking under bridges that used to once cross a river.
El Palau de les Arts — Opera house and performing arts centre
L’Hemisfèric — Imax Cinema, Planetarium and Laserium
L’Umbracle — Walkway / Garden
El Museu de les Ciències — Science museum
L’Oceanogràfic — Open-air oceanographic park
La Tomatina, Benol
Gaudi , Casa Batllo, Barcelona
September 11th, 2005
VirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments, permitting the user to move about in virtual space by simply walking.
The device consists of a large hollow sphere which is mounted on a specially designed platform that allows the sphere to rotate freely as the user walks in any direction. The user wears a head-mounted display, which provides the virtual environment. Sensors under the sphere provide subject speed and direction to the computer running the simulation. Users can even ineract with objects in virtual space using a special manipulator.
Website
Thanks to Technovelgy story on VirtuSphere
September 4th, 2005
A little like the MIT project “Installation” that I blogged in July but more of a preformance/artist tool, Artist Young Hay believes the “body brush” may be embraced by the art community because it creates a unique type of relationship with the machine.
Body Brush is a real-time body-driven immersive environment, which is achieved with the development of a low-cost computer-vision-based motion analysis system using frontal infrared illumination, and an innovative graphic rendering software that maps the body motion gesture-path-energy to the audio-visual attributes. It captures 3D human motion and transforms the motion data into a rich variety of 3D visual forms visualized through a stereo projector, as well as 3D sound and music with a surround sound system.
Video – Website
September 1st, 2005
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