Showing posts with label visualisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visualisation. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Platoon Sound Sculpture


"An audiovisual real-time performance that emphasizes audio synthesis and graphical languages. A interactive/reactive system between the audio and the image, between the man and the machine."




Thursday, May 5, 2016

Visualizing the invisible

Kung Fu Motion Visualization from Tobias Gremmler.

Regarding technical comments/questions: I used C4D for this production, but also did similar work back in the late 1990s with 3DS, or experimented with real-time environments. However, motion visualizations have been created even in pre-digital times with light, photography or costumes. Visualizing the invisible is always fascinating. > https://vimeo.com/163153865

Monday, March 7, 2011

Looking at the Invisible

Can you hear the unhearable? Can you see the unseeable? 
Common sens says no, adding "of course not".
Well check this out as it might give you access to what you thought impossible, therefore enrich your cerebral connections, and perhaps widen your fields of perception.


 New camera makes seeing the "invisible" possible 



"A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures in real time." MissouriSandT 



Impossible colors
"Impossible colors are hues that can only be perceived under specific conditions. 
Examples of impossible colors are bluish-yellow and reddish-green.
This does not mean the muddy brown color created when mixing red and green paints, or the green color from yellow and blue, but completely unique "new" colors."  wikipedia.org


Have you ever seen the color bluish yellow?

Some people may be able to see the color "yellow-blue" in this image. Allow your eyes to cross until both + symbols are on top of each other.


 A graph or how the brain interprets color.





Hue scale 0—360°


Scientific America
"Impossible" Colors: See Hues That Can't Exist

"Red and green are called opponent colors because people normally cannot see redness and greenness simultaneously in a single color. The same is true for yellow and blue.
Researchers have long regarded color opponency to be hardwired in the brain, completely forbidding perception of reddish green or yellowish blue.
Under special circumstances, though, people can see the “forbidden” colors, suggesting that color opponency in the brain has a softwired stage that can be disabled.
In flickering light, people see a variety of geometric hallucinations with properties suggestive of a geometric opponency that pits concentric circles in opposition to fan shapes."





3d-today.org/search/label/optic

Saturday, March 5, 2011

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



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Friday, December 31, 2010

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:
Follow the install instructions:
Download OSCeleton and run the binary:
(use "OSCeleton -h" in the command line for more options)
and the Processing examples in the video:
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

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Space Adventure: meanwhile on Earth...Part 2

The Space Adventure: meanwhile on Earth...Part 2







Iakov Afanassiev (Yakov Afanasyev)


"My overall research objective is to better understand the dynamical processes that govern the behavior of the stratified and rotating fluid that comprise the Earth's oceans, so as to improve upon existing capacity to predict evolution of complex geophysical fluid dynamical processes.
In pursuing this goal I have come to rely upon an approach combining theoretical, experimental and numerical techniques. 
This is an exciting area of research, as it gives us insight into fundamental oceanic and atmospheric physics, and also has relevance to our interaction with the environment." 
Iakov Afanassiev
Jets and vortices in the atmospheres and oceans of the rotating planets

Laboratory model shows zonal currents and vortices similar to those occurring in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. The topography of the water surface is visualized in color by optical altimetry. 



The soap bubble when placed on a rapidly rotating table can model a planetary atmosphere or an ocean. Convective motions within the bubble create color pattern due to interference of light.
Baroclinic instability of the coastal current in the rotating tank.




This video shows baroclinic instability modeled in the rotating tank. The baroclinic meanders are often observed in satellite images of the coastal ocean. In our experiment the flow is visualized by optical altimetry.



Laboratory modeling demonstrates the dynamics of the flow generated by a cylinder moving either Eastward or Westward on the polar beta plane. Polar beta plane is modeled in a rotating layer of fluid with parabolic free surface. One can see von Karman vortex streets behind the cylinder as well as inverted vortex streets and Rossby waves. The surface of the fluid is visualized by optical altimetry.


For more details see (Iakov Afanassiev) www.physics.mun.ca/~yakov


 3D TODAY
Architectural works

 Iakov Afanassiev (Yakov Afanasyev)
A wee(d) bit of History

Monday, March 22, 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010

Tricking your Brain at will

Tricking your Brain at will
We had seen this rotating figure some time a go. In fact she was perceived moving clockwise and/ or counter clockwise according to... what? the angle, your mood? This time the side color figures induce an immediate changement... Is you brain tricked or tricking?

Monday, January 25, 2010

Historical Browser Statistics

Historical Browser Statistics

via michaelvandaniker.com

"For the beta release of Axiis I prepared a visualization showing the historical browser breakdown of visitors to W3schools.com.  Since then I’ve enhanced it a bit, adding the ability to filter by browser type, and Tom lent his artistic eye and did a little restyling.  Although the number of Axiis tutorials out there is growing steadily, there are still very few, so I’ll dive deep and explain exactly how this visualization works..." by Michael.

Michael VanDaniker Visualizing Historic Browser Statistics with Axiis 



Sunday, January 24, 2010

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible



We have seen those X ray pictures for quite some time now. 
They were (and still are) very impressive and sought many a comment on how it was done, including the redundant nevrotic "photoshopped" supposingly explaining everything and sounding as stupid as the "there is a trick" when watching magic or "my son could do better" contemplating modern art. 
Well here is the whole explaination by the author and once again, reality is beyond fiction... Enjoy!

Take a tour to look at this post with interactive transcript by TED
Nick Veasy X-RAY http://www.nickveasey.com/ (About news Contact Work)

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Monday, January 4, 2010

WYGINWYS

WYGINWYS = "What You Get Is Not What You See"




Illusions are tricky per se, but further than plain fun, they have deep implications in the study of neuro-sciences and the knowlege of perception management by the brain.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Reality beats fiction beats reality / Drone Controllers





Download now or watch on posterous
Drone-Controllers.wmv (5270 KB)

Actually this is a simulation but could be reality!

Tomorrow's most efficient warriors will be teenaged geeks not even knowing

if they are scoring on bots or real people...

Surprisingly Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics fit perfectly with the subjet.

Starting with:

Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see..

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

On the way to flat displays for caves / A VR Geek Blog



“It’s always been our dream to make a projector-free LCD flat panel CAVE,” DeFanti says. “The trick was to get the form of the huge StarCAVE into the space of a living room. We took a speculative leap by overlapping 9 panels, and it turned out better than we thought.” Sébastien "Cb" Kuntz
Look at this post with a video! A VR Geek Blog

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Friday, June 5, 2009

The Contrast Asynchrony /Arthur Shapiro

Arthur Shapiro's Illusions and Demonstrations for Vision Research



Just read the description carefully, or you won’t understand.
Look at the flashing small circles in the center of the larger ones.
They flash differently, don’t they? When one is white, the other is black. Right?

Well, no. Click on "Add/remove surrounds” and watch how they actually flash.
I didn’t believe it at first. I even took a screenshot ...
Anyway, they flash at the same time and have the same color when flashing.

shapirolab.net

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

"Rotating snakes" Circular snakes appear to rotate 'spontaneously'





More and more illusions by Akiyoshi Kitaoka
about Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Arthur Shapiro

Arthur Shapiro's Illusions and Demonstrations for Vision Research

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Now you see it: Best visual illusions of 2009 - New Scientist

Interactive Movie - COLOUR DOVE
"If you stare for a long time at a large coloured image and then glance at a white background, you'll see the same image appear, but in its complementary colours. That's because the receptors in the eye that pick up the image's colour have become tired and surrounding receptors that haven't been used take over. While this effect is well-known, Yuval Barkan and Hedva Spitzer from Tel-Aviv University recently demonstrated the first example of a related illusion that causes the background colour to linger in a different part of the image. In the Coloured Dove illusion (see below), a white dove appears on a coloured background. When the background is switched to white, the dove takes on a paler version of the original surrounding colour. The team hasn't yet figured out exactly why this happens. One theory is that the dove has actually taken on the background's complementary colour from the beginning, although we fail to perceive it until the background colour disappears."



Interactive Movie -CURBALL - by Arthur Shapiro
"If you look directly at the "spinning" ball in this illusion by Arthur Shapiro, it appears to fall straight down. But if you look to one side, the ball appears to curve to one side. The ball appears to swerve because our peripheral vision system cannot process all of its features independently. Instead, our brains combine the downward motion of the ball and its leftward spin to create the impression of a curve. Line-of-sight (or foveal) vision, on the other hand, can extract all the information from the ball's movement, which is why the curve disappears when you view the ball dead-on."

CONTRAST COLOUR
"If you stare at this rotating circle, you should see three concentric circles: pink, blue and green. But when the circle stops moving, you can see that the arcs that create these circles are actually all black."


More visual illusions: newscientist.com