Donna3DPrisms

Wanna know what I discovered? They’re markedly not useful in most cases. Sometimes, yeah, but mostly we want furniture that’s just there. The added cost, weight, and loss of durability isn’t worth it. The idea of a coffee table that splits apart to end tables or C tables is cool, but turns out it if you ant a coffee table, you really just want a coffee table. Ditto with most of this stuff.

holoportation

WOW!

Incredible demo from i3D of Microsoft Research can capture and present realtime 3D video streams which can be viewed and displayed with their Hololens technology and depth camera setup:

holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote participants in 3D as if they are actually present in the same physical space. Communicating and interacting with remote users becomes as natural as face-to-face communication. 

Printed Touch Technology

Short video from Pier 9 features features Dr Kate Stone of Novalia demonstrating the idea that static objects such as vinyl sleeves and book covers can provide rewarding interactive experiences through conductive printing, turning them into musical instruments:

DynamicFusion

Computer vision 3D construction project from the uofwa [University of Washington] can create 3D scans of moving subjects with current commercial depth sensor technology. To understand why this is significant, most approaches currently require the subject to be completely still to be captured accurately and without errors:

With the availability of massively-parallel commodity computing hardware, we demonstrate new algorithms that achieve high quality incremental dense reconstruction within online visual SLAM. The result is a live dense reconstruction (LDR) of scenes that makes possible numerous applications that can utilise online surface modelling, for instance: planning robot interactions with unknown objects, augmented reality with characters that interact with the scene, or providing enhanced data for object recognition.

This new type of 3D printing was inspired by Terminator 2

Vector Festival 2015

I put together an interview for booooooom with one of the organizers of a Toronto-based art event which explores the impact of video games and how that produces new directions in independent art thinking and production.

LEVEL

Projection installation by Team IF uses animated minimalist geometry over a fragmented display area:

The project represents the dialogue between space and its limitations.

The main support is built using a transparent material superimposed onto another, semi-reflective surface. Allowing the light to be multiplied several times within its depths.

The perception of the image changes depending from one’s point of view, and immerses the audience into a world of reflections, fragmenting within the space.

Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?

Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.

The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use. 

If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.

The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise. 

It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.

GUYS????

This really useful oh my goodness. It takes a little figuring out, but once you get the hang of it it’s actually pretty easy. Just watch a couple youtube videos. Seeing how other people do it helps you to make sense of it.

Inside Me ( Nils Frahm - Me Rework)

Music video by Dmitry Zakharov of abstract forms takes place in a 3D scan of the artist’s body - video embedded below:

This project is based on a 3D-scan technique, which allows me to reproduce an image of my own body as a 3D object in a software. It is possible to view this object not just from outside, but also from the inside as a negative as well, which creates abstract shapes. The colouration was generated with the help of colour data I took from a real picture. The film reflects the invisible inner world of an individual, which owns a small universe in itself, created by experiences and feelings - as well in the digital world as in real life. We try to express ourselves and approach our world another being, but still, nobody can see in our souls entirely. For me, the process of scanning is a very important part of this work itself. The idea of digitising a body and hence the creation and deformation of its computer generated self, reflects the digital world we live in today. We create an alternative world, in which everybody can be what they want to be. In some way, it resembles to an act of creation.

From Laughing Squid, 3D-Printed Paintings of Nanomolecular Structures by Shane Hope.

Shane has a pretty interesting website:

Q: Is your work deliberately trying to be opaque, and if so, what are the benefits of hyper-complexity (both conceptual and aesthetic)?

A: Many have been too hypnotized by technocratic solutionism to see that not all clarity is benevolently about accuracy and not all lack thereof should be immediately suspect. Getting obsessive-compulsive about the future can be counterproductive inasmuch as it often precludes a greater gamut of adaptability. Ambiguity, opacity, allusion, metaphor and semantic slippage can all serve as really important tools when making artwork, or realities for that matter. From the butterfly flap you choose, emerges the superstorm you deserve.