There’s a great animation exhibition on until 12th May at Parasol Unit - definitely worth a look.

Just stumbled across this page which has a rather nice feature for enlarging the images on the right hand side. You can click on them to enlarge, then drag them around the page. Enlarge others and push them all around the page to compare them - all handled very intuitively. Click again to send them back to their original position.

A doctoral candidate at a robotics institute in Pittsburgh has created some software which analyses 2d photographs and builds 3D models out of them. Awesome. As well as playing his part in advancing the field of robotics, he’s also setting up a Flickr style site where users will be able to upload their photos and have them automatically 3D-ified, to use the correct term, so that users can zoom into the 3D model of their photo. Hence the name: Fotowoosh - see? The logo also beautifully illustrates this process. Anyway, the article is here and the Fotowoosh site is here featuring a demo of the technology. Will it work well enough? I don’t know, but even if it works just a little bit I’ll be very impressed.

No, but seriously folks…

Virtual keyboard

Think about it.

You’re pressing the keys but you’re not pressing the keys.

Can’t help thinking that typing without the physical feedback would be a bit rubbish. But I don’t know that for sure. Could be great.

Spotter: Kevin Keohane

Story at velorution.

Source: Conor

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Are Belong To Us

Was fondly remembering this recently.

For a trip down memory lane.

Remember that animation exhibition at the V&A? Well it was nice and interactive. Here’s a piece Airside did where they gave out flip books for people to create their own animations and then filmed them. My dubious effort is at 7m50s.