Of course, we all know Reddit with its incredible catalogue of resources. Here is one about 3D for you to browse and enjoy...

fr.reddit.com #3D Printing

Skelton yourself with Kinect

XBox Kinect OSCeleton / Kinect Skeleton Tracker

OSCeleton is basically a DIY motion capture system.

It sends 3D tracked body skeletons trough the OSC protocol so you can build anything easily.

So...

"Grab the drivers:

github.com/​avin2/​SensorKinect

Follow the install instructions:

ros.org/​wiki/​ni

Download OSCeleton and run the binary:

github.com/​Sensebloom/​OSCeleton

(use "OSCeleton -h" in the command line for more options)

and the Processing examples in the video:

github.com/​Sensebloom/​OSCeleton-examples

Try Animata too:

animata.kibu.hu/​

  

... and enjoy ;) ...

SenseWall

This is the latest multi-touch installation by SenseBloom. It’s located in the campus bar at the Computer Science Department of Coimbra University, Portugal.

...SoundTrack: KC & The Sunshine Band, Shake Your Booty sensebloom.com"

sources: (SenseBloom) 

Very interesting post by Peter Kirn >> createdigitalmotion.com

Free tool to calculate expenses for freelance artists | Blender 3D Architect

Article by:

Blender 3D Architect

The FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool) is a free tool created using Adobe AIR to aid in the process of calculating expenses and set a profit margin for your work.

Posted by Allan Brito >>>  blender3darchitect.com

Approach to Understand XML and Flash Workflow | GraphicMania

graphicmania.net

via 3d-today-links

Online Research Cool, Calm, and Collected

Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship.

"The "algorithms" depend on the genre. The most advanced use parametric, non-parametric as well as Bayesian econometrics, graph theory, and meta analysis (mostly coupled with some specialized computational linguistics and editorial rules that are required within certain genres) -- each piece is rather straight forward; the combination allows complexity. In terms of IT or programming languages, there is no rigidity to this - again it depends on the genre. If animation is the goal, then code is written to write MEL scripts, etc., which can automate Maya, which can in turn automate rendering, lights, etc., via macros. This works well, but for only certain aspects of that genre...    PhilipMParker  youtube.com

Method and apparatus for automated authoring and marketing | Philip M. Parker

google.com/patents=philip+m+parker

Webster's Online Dictionary with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

websters-online-dictionary.org

Article:

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) 

 Article by Noam Cohen     nytimes.com

What is Wolfram|Alpha?

 I discovered this tool by Dale Botha !

   Cereously!

"Ceres!  We're going to Ceres!  NASA's Dawn spacecraft is en route and should arrive in February 2015.  Considering we've known about it for over 2 centuries and it is 3 times closer than Saturn and 10 times closer than Neptune and their moons, I've always been very surprised to see the fuzzy images we have of it..."

enceladus + ceres+triton = wolframalpha.com

Read his post here: curiousdale.posterous.com/cereously 

 About Wolfram|Alpha

"Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries..." http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html

another example: Color

Color Names

• Compute properties of a named color:
• specify an HTML color:

Color Addition

• add two or more colors:

Color Systems

• specify a color using red-green-blue (RGB) values:
• use a 24-bit hexadecimal RGB color specification:
• specify a color using cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) values:
• specify a color using hue, saturation, and value (HSV):
• specify a color using hue, saturation, and lightness (HSL):

Temperatures

• compute the blackbody radiation color for a temperature:

 Wavelengths

• compute the visible light color corresponding to a wavelength:
• compute the visible light color corresponding to a frequency:

and look at the resultat here: wolframalpha.com

Blog: blog.wolframalpha.com

Where are Wolfram|Alpha widgets?

blog.wolframalpha.com

TinEye is a reverse image search engine

Behind the mirror

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

tineye.com

tineye.posterous.com

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.41) - Speckyboy Design Magazine

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.41) - Speckyboy Design Magazine

Draw something and share it! / Draw.to

"Create and share simple drawings — like those you do on a napkin in real life. Draw for fun or to communicate an idea. When you're done you can share your drawing with a single click!" Draw.to

http://draw.to/new

Thanks Thierry!  Cocktail de Web News

Couteau Suisse N°85 Wordpress, encyclopédie, dessin, twitter…

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RENDERA - Free Graphic Editor

RENDERA - Free Graphic Editor

Rendera is a free graphics program suitable for artistic painting, photo-retouching, colorizing,and seamless tile design. It emulates common art tools and features an easy-to-learn, labeled interface. 

The edge-wrapping and interactive offset functions make it perfect for Web background tiles. Version 1.5 includes JPEG support, faster polygon rendering, and minor tweaks.

 via this article "Gamma error in picture scaling" by Eric Brasseur Solutions

Developer: Joe Davisson
License: Freeware
Price: Free

OS: Windows ME | 2000 | XP | Vista
Size: 192 KBhttp://rendera.sourceforge.net/

http://rendera.sourceforge.net/

http://www.rendera.net/

Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application

 

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

 

Chaoscope software

Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. Below is a sample of pictures rendered by the program.

Download: http://www.chaoscope.org/download.htm

Gallery:
Chaoscope Gallery

Horloge Interne

Link 

The word "Chaoscope" was invented by Ralph Abraham

From Manposer (Many thanks)

Apophysis freeware fractal: Stunning pictures

Apophysis
Apophysis is a freeware fractal flame editor for Windows

Download Apophysics: http://www.apophysis.org/downloads.html
Arcane Fractals
Apophysis tutorial - Creating the forms
Apophysis is a freestanding and freeware flame fractal generator created by Mark Townsend. This tutorial is not about the nitty gritty ins and outs of Apophysis. But rather a basic tutorial for the beginner to get a handle on this programme.

Galleries:

Fran Yeoh

 

All fractal images on this website are strictly copyright.
No reproduction is permitted without prior permission.

Link

Apophysis / Deviant Art

From Manposer (Many thanks)

Most Notable Features in WordPress 2.9 / wpbeginner

Read this excellent post for beginners

here=> wpbeginner.com

"Long awaited WordPress 2.9 has been finalized by the developers and it is put out for download as a release candidate. Some of you might be wondering what is a release candidate. A release candidate is when the developers feel that all features that were to be added during the beta version are added, and this version could potentially be made official except it can use some extra testing for bugs. This is why as a contributing member to the community, everyone should download the release candidate and test run it to see if everything works fine. If your site is using plugins, then you should see if they are compatible with the new version and help the authors and other users by letting them know whether it works or not. You can do this by looking at the plugins page in the directory. (Example)
WordPress is really a community based script and without everyone’s help, suggestions, and contributions, it would not have been possible to make everything work.
You may download the Release Candidate from this Link. Well if you don’t want to download it, then might as well check out all these cool features that are coming with this new release. Maybe this will change your mind or maybe blow your mind with what an amazing release this will be."

Batch Plugin Update in WordPress

When WordPress introduced one click upgrade for plugins, it was like Christmas in July. But this time maybe on the actual Christmas or perhaps slightly earlier with the release of WordPress 2.9, we will now be able to upgrade multiple plugins with one click from our WordPress Admin Panel. Check out the Screenshot below:

Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010

via sixrevisions.com

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33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles / 1stwebdesigner

33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles by Dainis Graveris.

 1stwebdesigner.com

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Eight Robust Tools To Simplify Developer’s Worklife / SmashingApps

Take a look at this useful post! smashingapps.com

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Symbalow / Desktop for Internet

Symbaloo - start simple

Symbaloo is a personal start page, your personal desktop for the internet. By clicking on a block you surf easily to your favorite websites!

Ring°Wall The Wall of Education

Ring°Wall The Wall of Education
Largest interactive screem wall.

ring°wall - building the wall

 
ring°wall
 


"The two-piece ring°wall consists of a LED display and a multitouch information-wall and impresses by its size: a total surface of 425 square meters, which equals more than 6000 computer displays, is the biggest of its kind. An interactive World emerges out of 34 million pixels generated by 15 high definition projectors and is supported by 30 directional speakers.

Multitouch sensors basing on laser technology, convert the usage of the natural user interface into an experience. By direct touching, more than 80 users can simultaneously get informed about news and activities around the ringworld."

SITE SENSORY MINDS

Twitter: @sensoryminds  twitter.com/sensoryminds
Flickr: flickr.com/people/sensoryminds
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Offenbach-Germany/SENSORY-MINDS/163082832299

LINK

Ring°Wall: World Largest Multi-Touch and Multi-User Wall

Look at this interesting article! by infosthetics

DuckDuckGo A New Search Engine

DuckDuckGo

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine with less garbage and better results. We try to free you from "search yo-yo," the endless clicking forward and back between links. Here's how we do it:

    * Our Zero-click InfoTM gives you useful content right on result pages.

    * We label official sites and always put them on top.

    * Special pages disambiguate search terms.

Try it! DuckDuckGo

What do you think about this search?