While this is obviously way far advanced for our class, the concept of a robot that assembles it’s self is pretty awesome. It makes me think of ways you could transpose the idea into the art world. For instance a sculpture that builds itself by responding to noise activity within a space, or one that…

This is a pretty great video showing what Microsoft’s vision of the near future is if current technologies and interface ideologies continue to develop as they have been. I’m not sure if this could all be accomplished in 10 years, but most of what’s in the video seems pretty feasible.

At the first part of the video, I thought it was way too basic, having to draw a simple 2D shape on a screen with your hand. But as it progressed, I began to notice the different colors and shapes that began to form and morph into a 3D visual and it quickly became much…

This is an animation Thesis made by Nick Pitera from Ringling College of Art and Design. Even though this is not exactly programming the way we’ve been doing it using PureDate, it is still a form of Electronic Visualization. I personally am very interested in animation and will most likely be moving to another college…

I decided to post this for several reasons. I found this a good example of the use of the Audrino board in creating sound. I don’t know much about the Audrino system but I found this a pretty interesting idea. I prefer sound over visual usually and didn’t think that the Audrino could be used…

Understanding that we are going to continue with PD Gem, I continued my research with the software. I had a project that was similar to this. I would like to incorporate my project along with hardware that will animate with relative motion, that will clearly project the animation on the screen.

I like this video because it seems very similar to what we did in class last Thursday, just in a more advanced manner. It shows led lights at varying brightnesses all hooked up to a large circuit. This resembles the tiny led circuit we made, complete with the ability to vary the brightness of the…

There’s a lot of really boring videos of this material called “Flexinol”. What I find interesting is not the videos, but where the technology can advance to and what it means to robotics and physical response from computerized systems. Flexinol is basically a wire that contracts when a voltage is applied to it, much like…

Now here’s an intriguing idea. Sometimes we don’t see that things we have lying around the house can be used in different ways. This makes me want to go home and open up my wiimote nunchuck and see how it works… Apparently it is an accelerometer. It has a lot of potential to be used…

Ok, so I’m not sure that this qualifies as art, per se, but anything to facilitate the production thereof is beneficial. And so, sandwiches are beneficial! //non-compiling code generated for humor value only.public class ThingsInThisWorld{ ThingsInThisWorld toastedThings = new ThingsInThisWorld(); toastedThings = areDelicious; areDelicious = nom;} Who wants to bother getting up in the middle…

I really like enjoyed this piece because it raises a lot of questions and ideas of what can be done with interactive arts. The fact that they are using a Wiimote as part of the gun brings up the marketing value. With a lot of these interactive arts, it always brings up that this could…

I thought this video was pretty cool. I liked how you can control the lights and how fast the lights go. I also definitely thought the arrangement of colors was pretty awesome. I think it would have been even more great if the controller was hooked up through some kind of instrument that when you…