READY TO CRAWL Hiroshi Sugihara

Designer: Hiroshi Sugihara
Project director: Shunji Yamanaka
Based on the researchof: SatoshinTanigawa
Based on the AM structure research of Keisuke Tanigawa

Giuseppe Randazzo Creates Elaborate Arrays of 3D-Printed Stones

Digital Artist Giuseppe Randazzo Creates Elaborate Arrays of 3D-Printed Stones

thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/stone-fields

Self-organising Robots Inspired by Termite Colonies

seas.harvard.edu

AIREAL: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air

The AIREAL device emits a ring of air called a vortex towards a user’s hand. The vortex can impart a force on the user’s hand, enabling a range of dynamic free air sensations.

AIREAL: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air

AIREAL is a new low cost, highly scalable haptic technology that delivers expressive tactile sensations in mid air... disneyresearch.com

3D TODAY:  http://goo.gl/hmM1qu
GPlus: plus.google.com

Sweet 3D

"We're kyle and liz, a husband and wife architectural design team in Los Angeles. The Sugar Lab started when we were graduate students. We wanted to make our friend chelsea a birthday cake, but we didn't have an oven, so we decided to try to 3D print a cake instead. After a period of trial and error that lasted well beyond her actual birthday, we managed to print chelsea a tiny cupcake topper that spelled her name in cursive sugar. She loved it! We thought other people might like 3D printed sugar, too, so when we graduated, we started The Sugar Lab officially, in our studio here in Silver Lake."                 
The Sugar Lab

Could the house of the future look like a spider's web?

Out-there architects issue plan for 3D-printed home | Mail Online http://goo.gl/aD5eJ

twisting, twisting night'n day

Recycle your plastic for 3D Printing

Make your own 3D printing filament from recycled bottles and other plastic products. Never run out of 3D printing filament.

 

Filabot is a 3D plastic extrusion system. For example mostly any type of recyclable plastic... kickstarter

Full Circle with Filabot

Introducing Filabot

Links
filabot.com

kickstarter.com

A Desktop Machine To Turn Your Old Plastic Into 3-D Printing Fodder

fastcoexist.com
Filabot Turns Your Plastic Junk Into Material for 3-D Printers
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Gustav Metzger Thinks About Nothing | Design Week

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Artist Gustav Metzger hooked himself up to a robot carving machine, that turned his brainwaves into a sculpture.

Null Object, a visual representation of Gustav Metzger’s empty thoughts

"Working with art and technology group London Fieldworks, Metzger created 3D shape information based on EEG readings of his brainwaves as he furiously tried to think of nothing."
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Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned Meshes

Given a skinned mesh (a), we estimate (b) a fabricatable articulated character with (c) internal joints of hinge and ball-and-socket

type. (d,e) Final 3D printed characters (transparent material) have durable joints with a frictional design for character posing.

"Articulated deformable characters are widespread in computer animation. Unfortunately, we lack methods for their automatic fabrication using modern additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. We propose a method that takes a skinned mesh as input, then estimates a fabricatable single-material model that approximates the 3D kinematics of the corresponding virtual articulated character in a piecewise linear manner. We first extract a set of potential joint locations. From this set, together with optional, user-specified range constraints, we then estimate mechanical friction joints that satisfy inter-joint non-penetration and other fabrication constraints. To avoid brittle joint designs, we place joint centers on an approximate medial axis representation of the input geometry, and maximize each joint’s minimal cross-sectional area. We provide several demonstrations, manufactured as single, assembled pieces using 3D printers."

Authors; Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Doug L. James, Hanspeter Pfister.

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Adding a '3D print' button to animation software
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"Resonant Chamber" - Animusic.com

Thank you Captain Ezy :)

REAL-f when 3D printing meets high definition color printing...

REAL-f

REAL-f

REAL-f

REAL-f

  
Links 

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Double trouble? Japanese company creates ultra-realistic (and slightly creepy) replicas of your face

 "...For £2,500 (yes, really) - or $3,920 - the company takes digital stills of your face, then moulds them over a 3D model to create a hard vinyl chloride 'face'..."

facebook: REAL.f.jp
real-f.jp

Muddy Colors

An illustration collective:

Muddy Colors

Jordu Schell: Grand Moff Tarkin

"Jordu Schell recently finished this bust of Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars Episode IV..."

muddycolors.blogspot.com

Spotlight On: JORDU SCHELL

 muddycolors.blogspot.com

 

 Jordu Schell Sculpture Demonstration for Dreamworks

Eye painting demonstration from Jordu Schell

DTS – The Speaker Orchestra « ross:ching

"Every year DTS creates a promotional video for CES in Las Vegas. This year, the commercial production company I’m with wanted to do something different. They wanted to make something that people would replay, something that would stimulate people’s minds when they view it on their computer screen.." Ross Ching.


What we would need:
40 paper tubes ranging from 3″ to 15″ diameter about 4′ tall
40 speaker drivers
A roll of latex to cover the speaker heads
30 bottles of tempera paint
2000′ of speaker wire
A Pro Tools system with 40 channels worth of outputs
A mixing board with 40 channels worth of inputs and outputs
40 channels worth of amplifiers
200,000 watts of tungsten light (compare this to a typical 60 watt household bulb)
2 high speed cameras (for 3D)
A 21st Century 3D rig
And a Technocrane

Read the full story: rossching.com

xea's posterous http://xea.posterous.com/dts-the-speaker-orchestra-rossching email

A milestone in 3D printing

Here comes the copyright infringement question concerning 3D printed objects. As 3D printers are getting much less expensive, one can expect a soon to be time when a certain number of objects will be home made. Of course, objects can be designed with a 3D software, but a shortcut would be to scan the original piece and simply copy it.

But we can expect finding online specialised sites which will offer, free of charge or for a small amount, ready to print 3D files. This new market will probably bring up the same problems we are witnessing with music and video downloading:

As soon as some smart ass will create an equivalent to DivX/ MP3 compression standard, 3D files will be easy to get and millions of artefacts, originally designed and produced by industries, are going to be scanned, available and shared online.

While the already obsolete war on piracy is on, it seems that no one has yet anticipated the forecoming problem, as well as the complete market revolution that will occur. Cheers!
Texte by Armand Dauré 


The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age by Peter Hanna

Erik de Bruijn, co-founder of 3D printing company Ultimaker, working on his 3D printer.
Photo by soulfish

 Read this very interesting article: arstechnica.com

A very interesting illustration: The Penrose triangle

The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, is an impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.

The tribar appears to be a solid object, made of three straight beams of square cross-section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.

How to draw the impossible triangle

Made from three 8-inch boards of wood.

It was done in AutoCAD R14

Using Solidworks

In SketchUp

Penrose Triangle In SketchUp

3D printing

Be Your Own Souvenir!

3D has become a street attraction.

"This proposal aims to connect street users, arts and science, linking them to under-laying spaces and their own realities. The installation was enjoyed during two weekends in January 2011 by the tourists, neighbours of La Rambla and citizens of Barcelona, a city that faces a trade-off between identity and gentrification, economic sustainability and economic growth.

This shapes through a technological ritual where the audience is released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observer-object.

The user becomes the producer as well as the consumer through a system that invites him/her to perform as a human statue, with a free personal souvenir as a reward: a small figure of him/herself printed three-dimensionally from a volumetric reconstruction of the person generated by the use of three structured light scanners (kinect).

The project mimics the informal artistic context of this popular street, human sculptures and craftsmen, bringing diverse realities and enabling greater empathy between the agents that cohabit in the public space.

Dataflow

All the software used in this project is free and open. Custom software has been developed using openFrameworks and openKinect in order to produce a tunable full 360 degree point cloud. Using a midi controller, the three differents input pointclouds (3 Kinects) can be adjusted in space and resolution. The resulting combined point cloud is processed by Meshlab to produce a mesh reconstruction. Skeinforge takes the mesh, previously cleaned up through Blender, and outputs a gcode file, which can feed a cnc machine (Rapman 3.1)."  blablabLAB

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A Paradise for Gangsta Designers Geeks and Artists

All sorts of new matters, materials and concepts to turn you on, boost you up, and knock you out...

Much more there: inventables.com

Artificial Clones

While the synthetic Gemini are amazingly progressing, the extensive practice of plastic surgery is turning celebrities' faces into non-anatomical, aberrant masks. 

The public does not seem to bother at all, quite the opposite though. 

Meanwhile robotics in surgery are progressing fast enough for us to foresee a very intricated situation as well as an interesting "close science-fiction" scenario in which a geminius will look more human and natural than a living person who could have been surgicated, through a digital 3D process, by... a robot!

In an endless feedback loop process with partial recalls such as 
"I play in a XVIth century movie and need a genuine face for the role otherwise it would look as Julius Caesar using a cell phone"  Armand Dauré.

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (石黒浩 Ishiguro Hiroshi) is director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems (知能・機能創成工学専攻) at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the laboratory is the actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial movements. en.wikipedia.org

Geminoid. DK

"The first geminoid, HI-1, was created in 2005 by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR and the Tokyo-based firm, Kokoro. A geminoid is an android, designed to look exactly as its master, and is controlled through a computer system that replicates the facial movements of the operator in the robot."

"Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe decided to make a robot copy of himself. That is me, his Geminoid. I am being constructed in Japan while a new lab for me is being built at Aalborg U. That will be my new home."

Making the hands of the Geminoid

Geminoid-DK first smile

Geminoid test

Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University 

 

Female Android Geminoid F

Robot Looks Like Inventor

Now directing (actors) is reaching its full sense

Robot actress takes to the stage

Robot gets Job as Actroid-Human Bow down ..

Body Movement Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction 

By Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Michita Imai, and Tetsuo Ono.

Attached markers (left) and obtained 3D numerical position data of body movement (right)

This paper presents a method for analyzing human-robot interaction by body movements. Future intelligent robots will communicate with humans and perform physical and communicative tasks to participate in daily life. 

PDF:citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

Links:

geminoid.dk

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Articles:

Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic spectrum.ieee.org

Japanese develop 'female' android news.bbc.co.uk/

"Everything is a Remix"

Everything Is A Remix: KILL BILL






"Everything is a Remix" (EiaR) is produced using the following tools:

     Apple iMac
     WD My Book Studio II
     Behringer XM8500 Dynamic Microphone
     Zoom H4N
     Canon 7D
     SanDisk CF cards
     Final Cut Studio
     Adobe Production Premium
     Magic Bullet Looks
     MPEG Streamclip
     Scrivener
     Writeroom
     Evernote
     Launchbar
     Dropbox
     1Password
     Default Folder X
     Typinator
     Transmit
     Audacity
     Chronosync
     iShowU

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and now remix of remix of remix!

Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences

shotcontext.blogspot.com

3D TODAY
Unforgetable Musics in Unforgetable Movies

#Music

# blast from the past

Yes 3D can be Analogic: Mr Beam

Mr Beam

"Two projectors create a real-life skinning effect on a simple, white living room.

We created a unique physical 3D video mapping experience by turning a white living room into a spacious 360° projection area."

"This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures of the furniture, wallpapers and carpet. All done with 2 projectors."

Music: Free the Robots - Jazzhole

Links

mr-beam.nl

mr-beam.tumblr.com

youtube.com

Seen on:

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