Artist impression of Handcar
Another fine watercolour from Akopa summing up the kind of thing which the handcar exhibit is aiming for.
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Pictures of Springthing
We’ve only built a mini-one. Click on the pictures for blowups.
Persuaded Katya to order some surgical latex tubing from a guy in the states, and I grabbed some before I flew back from Boston.
Only 50 feet of it is shown here. Katya has another 150 feet, so her version will be three times as big.
Shame our house is so cluttered, in the real thing it would have a plain background I guess. The knots look pretty crap and we’ll have to be sure of the fixings.
Wondering about driving it with servos or something. Any thoughts, Michal?
Glowing Man
Couldn’t resist posting this detail shot of one of the objects in the Springthing we built downstairs.
Dragon optical illusion
This little dragon appears to be looking at you. But if you rotate the base this way or that the dragon’s head appears to turn the other way…
sketch books
I’ve been thinking for a while that it’d be good to have a “sketch book” - so I bought one yesterday.
I’m now wondering how best to keep it. How do you guys use yours? Pen or pencil (hard/soft)? Dated pages? Do you stick things in? Do you ever capture the pages onto the computer?
A bit of fun
Interactive video experiments
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Blowing bubbles
Painting with singing
Sorry for mistaken pasting and posting. Shouldn’t have been British Troops on LSD, but this instead.
twistedmap progress
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Hi Everyone, this is where I’ve got to with the twisted map… www.davidchatting.com/boiling-frogs/maps.html As you’ll see still not actually twisted… but I reckon there are some interesting things to be seen. Cheers, Dave |
Make: techology on your time
I’ve been buying Make Magazine - it’s great!
The first edition shows you how to make the sort of kites carrying cameras we’d discussed and there’s things like the Lego Rubik Cube Solver - brilliant!
Not sure if we can buy it yet in the UK - go bother Smiths! I’ll lend my copies to who ever’s interested.
Cheers,
Dave
wolfram tones
Today I saw Stephen Wolfram speak about his New Kind of Science (NKS) - it’s all about complexity that emerges from very simple rules - lots about cellular automaton.
There’s lots and lots of interest here, but one thing I thought might appeal (to Martin especially) is the Wolfram Tones - tunes generated by cellular automata.
GEM and PD
Also been learning how to feed video into 3d rendering engine using PD and GEM and consulting examples like this tutorial. Recreated the handcar video frame controller based on the help file example for Gem’s pix_film, but now it doesn’t jump - nice and smooth - just fire a chosen frame number and it instantly renders it.
Now I can play around with processing a webcam feed to evaluate the movements of the one or two participants driving the handcar. That’s the next task - get the feed from the iSight camera, and process the video stream in real time to create a control input. No sleep for me!