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My most important Twitter Messages #12

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:45:57 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from August - November 2011:

Allgemein (General)

some nice talks http://vimeo.com/eyeofestival/videos #visual #media #art #design
insideAR 2011 talks (Augmented Reality Conference) are online
RT Our first title in the Maker Press series: DIY Bookbinding. Download the PDF book, bind it, and win a prize
startnext.de ist die Crowdfunding Plattform für deutsche Projekte in Deutschland. Link via mein Bruder Lorenz
Device Art: A New Form of Media Art from a Japanese Perspective

Generative Art:

Our lecture from the "Design the Future" series at Carnegie Mellon University is now online

Info Design and Visualization

Sense of Patterns, visualizing mobility data in public spaces (via @moritz_stefaner)
RT Great talk by @mbostock on the smooth d3 force layout | interactive slides
Linz published some local data about their area - Linz Open Data project via @mkalten
RT http://pachube.com (platform for internet of things) is now free. No excuses now not to use it!
RT If you are into big data streams, this service should get you excited: http://datasift.com/ (now if they had some nice visualizations...
Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access.

UX and Interaction Design:

nice article about problems of gesture based interaction reminds me on my old paper
very nice: TapSense: Enhancing Finger Interaction on Touch Surfaces
Touch Vision Interface has a really nice interaction approach for augmented reality apps
Between the Tag and the Screen - A PHD Thesis by Kjetil Nordby
sweet but not cheap: International Journal of Creative #Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

"An Urban Sensation" overlay live CCTV footage to a 3D model of the urban environment
nice project openpaths.cc by the New York Times Lab

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Another tool and software for 3d projection mapping http://www.madmapper.com their blog is also pretty informative
nice resource and software for 3D projection #mapping #visual #design #interactive #installation #art
Amazing! Render 3D objects into photos: Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs
KinectFusion - a research project that lets users generate high-quality 3-D models in real time using Kinect.
Some nice development is going on... Augmented realtiy #tracking for #mobile devices
Publication: Future Textiles

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Seems to be an interesting article: Ladder Of Abstraction by Bret Victor
RT In case you want to work with maps in processing, here is your open source library: unfolding by @tillnm
RT iGeo is free and open source 3D modeling software library for processing for architecture and product design
RT Google Mapper for Processing is a library that enables you to download images of any size from Google Maps.
RT howto use svg for rigged 2D-animations in processing
RT a new HTTP Library for processing for GET,POST,oAuth and more
RT Finally a good overview of all openFrameworks addons:

Physical Computing

Nice resources and inspiration for fixing and repairing (electronic) objects via @make
Fab@home is working on a decentralized factory approach for your home
Infrared 101

Game Developing:

Very nice collection of old school Game title screens
RT Photo-realistic game engine from Square Enix
Citrus Game Engine Now Free and Open Source
Create Flash and iOS Games via Editor Stencil via @andremichelle and @jensfranke looks nice!
Construct 2 - A visual HTML5 game development tool
Very good blog about Game Design! http://www.lostgarden.com/

Flash and Flex

RT AIR Developer Center | Using Flash Builder 4.5 to package applications for Apple iOS devices
Fast and easy! The Flex 4 Spark Framework Architecture for (ui) component development by David Deraedt
Great article on #Flex 4 skin programming by @mraad . Focusing on #performance and reducing boilerplate code
Talking Trash – An overview of #Flash Player Garbage collection
RT Introducing opensource evoSpicyParticleEngine
RT Particle Editor for #Starling. Blog Post | Tool (cc @leebrimelow @thibault_imbert )
RT Check out this incredible Stage3D AGAL sandbox by @li_palebluedot - a fun way to learn AGAL shaders.
some nice generator tool for enum and value objects
That's sound cool vor enhancing your personal workflow: Creative Suite Extension Builder
Not so new but still interesting whitepaper comparing AJAX and Flex in terms of productivity and etc via flexlabs
Nice article for identifying the best web target platform. If it is Flash or HTML5

My most important Twitter Messages #11

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:00:29 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from June - August 2011:

Allgemein (General)

OFF TOPIC: Another great Tumblr blog. Awesome People Hanging Out Together
great interview about a brazilian (art) #DIY movement #gambiologia http://www.gambiologia.net/blog/ #repair #hack #culture
guter Artikel: Das Zusammenspiel von Wissensarbeit und Wissensarchitektur in Beziehungsnetzen und räumlichen Strukturen
Interesting article: #Design #Research – A Failure of Imagination? by Andy Polaine
Maybe I already mentioned this #funding platform... http://www.indiegogo.com/
RT A couple of great resources for free math & comp sci courses: http://www.khanacademy.org/ & http://www.openculture.com/
RT Designers: Google released hundreds of free, open-source fonts yesterday for the web. http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2
RT “@subblue: Students and teachers can now get all Autodesk software for free - wow!” < smart move.
RT Version control for designers

Generative Art:

Just added this interesting sounding book The Visual Mind: #Art and #Mathematics
Johannes Keplers book "The harmony of the world" looks like a treasure for #generative #art(ists)
perfect inspiration for #visual #programming via @rdrb
really nice and inspiring blog about sound programming and other stuff

Info Design and Visualization

Cinemetrics - Film #Visualization Project Breaks - is a really great #Info Vis project! check
Land surface #climate station records from the last 150 years published
great resource for an info design art project link via @JoshuaDavis

UX and Interaction Design:

Font focus: Making ideas harder to read may make them easier to retain #research
another #mobile interaction #design pattern website
RT Interesting presentation about web design patterns on chinese web sites
nice article: Five Lessons from a Year of Tablet UX Research
fake texture and tangible feedback for #multitouch devices http://www.teslatouch.com
Fucking interesting exhibition at the MoMa(New York) Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Great example of a #tangible #interface: Humanoid USB Posing Mannequin for Skeletal Animation
Leaf++ is a nice example how humans can interact with nature
Wacom inkling device

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

it seems to be a nice resource - http://linkeddata.org/faq - organizing links and data... #semanticweb #rdf #information #architecture
QR codes and cooking... QKies combines it perfectly via @mkalten
QR Codes in Fashion Design - nice idea - Beaded QR Code Garment
RT Flipping flip! Google Swiffy reckons it can turn Flash into HTML5! Try it out!
RT The open source LightScythe is a device for writing text and images frozen in midair
Cheap swarm robots
Swarmanoid. modular swarming scary robots out to read your books and outsmart you
Interesting project: Electronic Origami by Jie Qi | tutorial | website
Pixel Knitting is a real nice effect for photography-transform you photo to a cartoon like landscap
wow, very interesting projection mapping and view of Leonardo's Last Supper via @memotv see historical #art in new ways
Nice visuals and mapping by Amon Tobin 'ISAM' Live via @david_bru

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

RT Fancy chips for dinner? Edible RFID tags could tell you what's in your food
some great tutorials on #projectionmapping from the kings of projections (and mapping), http://1024d.wordpress.com/
One day this #software might help making life for media #facade designer easier #3d #mapping #tracking
Impressing #3d reconstruction via #kinect
Great round-up of wearable electronics from the past and present
RT (almost) bulletproof human skin made from spider silk - amazing art+science project.
Algorithm for extracting a resolution-independent vector representation from pixel art
RT gutted I'm not at #SIGGRAPH2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwGK6lGnu90 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9EEE3RsKM

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Cool website and resource for #JavaScript
RT FireQuery: a Firebug extension for jQuery development. /via @rem
RT pdf.js - rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript.. still beta but sounds good
RT @PaperJS: After five months in the making, @juerglehni and @jonathanpuckey are very happy to release Paper.js
RT Oh my, #vvvv is being ported to the web
RT Olé! @toxiclibs for Javascript! (via @blprnt, @peterpaulrubens)
RT @tillnm: Search Geometry, a Processing library for isometric contours and surfaces
First look on the #Blobscanner library for #processing was great. Very easy going and well documente
RT new version 0.1.4 of the GML Library @gml4u: releasedMinor additions + fix for the TUIORecorder example issue
RT Drop Processing is an app for quickly batch processing image
RT Processing Tutorial about how to save audio data to text files
RT Non-Commercial Kinect for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research released
TopBraid Composer is mabye the first real nice editor for #rdf #owl and other tasks #semanticweb
OF v007 is now released - Thanks to the community and @creativeinquiry for helping make it happen!
RT #yUML (yuml.me) is really cool for creating quick UML diagrams. I love the scruffy ones.
Intel have released Embree an open-source photo-realistic ray tracer for Windows, OSX and Linux
Qualcomm #Augmented Reality #SDK for #iPhone OS
some really nice #Red5 tutorials #flash #streaming #multiplayer #java

Physical Computing

Amazing resource for hacking your #canon photo camera! http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK #hack #programming #firmware
Nice online shop and resource for #wearable technology #physical #computing #mobile
iPhone iPad iPod talks to #Arduino
RT Tutorial: Maximising your Arduino’s I/O ports
nice tutorial and interface for #wearable technology: Polar #Heart Rate Monitor #Interface + #Arduino

Game Developing:

RT The creator of TexturePacker also has a tool called PhysicsEditor that has a Flash export option. Looks interesting!
Added Citrus Level #Editor link to my #flash #game libs blog pos
RT Opinion: Analog Input Processing And Delivering Great Controls
RT Gaming Developer Center | Resource page for gaming engines, 3D, and Stage 3D
RT great article about #flash #flixel #game #engine in combination with other flash libraries
Added http://playerio.com/ Games API to my #Flash #Game Framework post
Very interesting article about game loops in physics and game engines #gamedev #programming #algorithm

Flash and Flex

RT uploaded short Alternativa3D AR tutorial including qtrack, FLARManager & #IN2AR examples (via @makc3d)
RT some useful geom & algebra stuff added: Affine/Homography/Fundamental/LevMar #asfeat
RT Very nice (and smooth) fire+smoke animation in Flash using blitting (source available) (via @elsassph)
Big pdf about: Developing ACTIONSCRIPT Extensions for ADOBE AIR
AS3MemoryWatcher - hacky toolkit for tracking ALL SWF allocs via Apparat
RIATest looks like a very useful tool for automate your GUI testings #flex #ui #testings #quality
RT Online UML modeling application for #AS3 & Flex programmers, Crocus Modeller is free (for now) and full of features
If you are working with huge data amount in #flex, this might be helpful: Working with large #data sets in #flash player
Really useful for developing mobile apps: Detecting the network connection type with #Flex 4.5 #wifi #mobile #network
RT Multi-Touch Charts for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source Code Available on GitHub
RT @mraad: ArcGIS API for #Flex Version 2.0 is released (Arabic locale & #iOS and #Android friendly:-)
10 tips from @FlashGen: developing for multiple devices #mobile #multiscreen
How to create a #Flex mobile project with #Flash Builder, and publish it as a classic web app
flexponential is a good resource for some flex framework issues and code snippets #flex #skinning #mobile #code #tips

Arduino Prototype: The “plate” Gaming Device

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:39:22 +0000

For two or three years I wanted to work seriously with Arduino. During this time I have done the same basic LED exercises again and again. Just for keeping alive my basic knowledge. Finally and luckily, I had to visit the Advanced Microcontroller lecture by Laurent Mignonneau. Laurent is the definition of a Geek himself. Not much talking, just doing, and a fucking huge amount of knowledge in electronics and programming. The assignment for his lecture was to create SOMETHING with a low resolution screen. Really advanced examples of a low resolution screen are the androp project (Making of | strobo animation) or Laurent's solar display (concept).

Device Front

Device shot

: Device opened

Device opened back

Under the hood

Internal parts

: Hot glue fixing

: display resistors

However, one day in May I woke up and had this game device idea, which looks like a plate or a steering wheel. After some consideration the idea felt good. The very simple form allows me to integrate a low resoultion screen very easily. Furthermore the usage range of this kind of device would be broad. I was very happy. For the size of the device I got inspiration of a real plate. It has the perfect size for not entering the private area of other players, but still feel connected to them. The metaphor came to me when I observed the interaction between a waiter and his guests in a restaurant. When the waiter hands the plate to one guest, there exist for a short time a connection between them. The connection is mediated and supported by the plate. The physical distance provided by the plate is small enough for feeling welcome, but also big enough for respecting the private zone. For this reason the form of the device is not only usable for a remote control, it is even usable for a multiplayer gaming device. In this context I got a childhood memory... uh yeah... fighting all the time with my sister for the power of the TV remote control. That memory brought me to a new version of the game "tug of war". The plate has four handholds. For each player one. In the middle of the device the screen is placed. The screen shows two lines, like a cross. The aim of the game is to pull the device hard enough, that one line (the opposite line of the player) comes closer. If the line jumps out of the screen the player has won. An arrow shows it. Afterwards the game starts again. I uploaded a short video for getting an idea and see the device in action.

The technical implementation of my device is very simple, I have to admit... The wood and some other fixing stuff I found in the trash of the university and the Linzer DIY stores. I had almost the feeling of Gambiologia However, I cut the wood our university wood workshop. Further parts were:

Board: Arduino Nano (ATmega168)
Display: Kingbright LED DotMatrix TC20-11YWA
Interaction: Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - ADXL335
some cables and resistors

During development I ran into some pitfalls. My soldering skills are not very great and for this reason at least four or five times a cable lost the connection... In the end I stabilized the cable connection with hot glue (look at the pictures). That worked very well and I had no such problems anymore. Laurent gave me the advice to avoid cables everywhere I can. The possibility that the cable lost the connection is very high. Using plugs and connectors are good alternatives... So for the next projects I try my best to consider it. Second pitfall was related to programming. I got a Arduino Nano Board from Laurent. I tried to replace the Nano board with my Uno board. But unfortunatley the provided Arduino Code for the LED Dot Matrix messed up. In the end the Arduino Code for Nano board was not compatible with my new Arduino Uno board. I don't know the exact reason. May one of my readers have an idea?! I would appreciate it. Next issue, not a very big one, was dealing with the accelerometer data. Every motion caused a motion in the opposite direction. You can see the values at my Excel File. I implemented a simple time checking code for the sensor. It works good for the first tests, but maybe one of you can recommend me a good library or code snippet for dealing with accelerometer values...?! The source code of this project is available as usual on my Google SVN. I am pretty happy with the result of my first Arduino project. Even the feedback I got from the other students were great. So I would like to continue the development. For a much better wood cut I hope I can use the laser cutter at the AEC or the Fab lab in Berlin. The device should get some extensions, like pressure sensors on each handhold. Adding four InraRed LEDs on the back of the device. The IR LEDs are interesting for some (3D) tracking projects a la Johnny Chung Lee. I hope I can implement all these ideas... Happy coding and soldering!

Moodumbrella – a self em-powered device for well-being

My most important Twitter Messages #10

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:27:54 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2011:

Allgemein (General)

Very interesting documentation about media (#design): Everything is a remix
Added the talk: IDEO's Tim Brown in Conversation with Bruce Nussbaum | Parsons The New School for #Design
videos and talks of see conference are online #design and #infovis
RT gardens. amazing liquid sculptures.
This open source search engine or network does not look bad
Interesting book: Manuel DeLanda: #Philosophy and #Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
Also a very nice plaform for #funding your projects http://www.indiegogo.com/ an alternative to http://www.kickstarter.com/
RT Kickstarter projects success vs fail analysis, stats and links/via @neilhimself
Really astonished example of stage based #animation! via @JoshuaDavis

Generative Art:

RT NODE10 - Forum for Digital Arts, Documentary
Really really enjoyed the talk of Jared Tarbell about #generative #art and how #code goes beyond the desktop
very cool website for generative and genetic algorithms... Would like to read the book
Computer #Art and #Typography, check Travis Kirtons work | paper | and his master thesis

Info Design and Visualization

RT I am quite impressed with think quarterly magazine design and branding. Content looks good, too (via @shervinafshar)
Yay, my talk from last year's decoded conference is online: "Lasst die Daten sprechen" (German)
great project about visualizing choreographic structure from dance to data objects

UX and Interaction Design:

RT Q&A: How to Make TV Apps Work (via @pickone)
Es wäre interessant die Disziplin Psychotechnik wieder fürs #Interaction #Design aufzuarbeiten
Found a nice paper Psychophysiology as a Tool for HCI Research: Promises and Pitfalls
This #paper sounds also very interesting: Evaluation of User Interfaces for #mobile app #development environments
RT Ultimate Collection of Mobile User Interface Patterns: (via @pickone)
RT Must Read: @preciousforever: precious presents: Patterns for Multiscreen Strategies
Great article by @grigs: Where are the Mobile First Responsive Web Designs?
Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces via @timperrett
It's a pretty old article but still interesting to read: A History of the GUI
RT Great collection: The Buxton Collection (via @BogieZero, @stefanwoelwer)
Nice conference and resource for Sonic #Interaction #Design and their proceedings
Nice to read: The Theory Behind Social Interaction Design

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

RT Great project: Kater - Tangible robots for multitouch tables (via @tillnm)
Extending the Touchscreen - #device control development | blog
Nice project for information #visualization on #architecture and #urban #spaces

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Researchers have discovered a universal property of musical scales.
a state-of-the art report: Augmented Reality for Smartphones
Nice mind map about augmented reality development
TLD is a real-time algorithm for #tracking of unknown objects | source
MotionBeam project - Non-Flat #Displays for #mobile devices| paper

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

RT Initial impressions of Amazon Cloud Drive / Player good start, TONs of promise, needs some polish
OpenPlug Studio now Free-for-All #developers #mobile | article
RT IgnoCodeLib a new library to export Adobe Illustrator Files AI7 directly from processing
PSmile - Smile Detection library for #Processing by Bryan Chung via @CedricKiefer but it seems only for Mac OSX...
#OpenGL library for #processing ->GLGraphics
Tutorial: Using JavaDB from #Processing
RT Great starting point for toxiclibs: #processing
Working with #Toxiclibs - #Processing tutorial by Amnon Owed | CreativeApplications.Net
Another great tutorial about using eclipse for processing
Building Interactive Installations with OpenCV - #processing
RT Processing Tools "InitSketch" got updates to work with processing 1.5
RT in addition to the InitSketch processing tool, there was just released a SaveTemplate Tool
RT source for serial comms over audio used on @imogenheap twitter dress
Ruby meets creative coding http://www.zajal.cc/ (via @rdrb)

Physical Computing

Interesting system for programming your spatial home
RT Meet the IOIO for Android - USB access to your Android-based phone
Interesting #DIY 3d Printer project
An easy to use alternative to arduino
very interesting article about #arduino and #android | google video presentation
nice article: Using #Android ADK with a standard #Arduino Uno and USB Host Shield
Make: Projects is a living library for makers, nice place for getting inspiration

Game Developing:

RT Excellent active tuts article on Euclidean Vectors in AS3 by @DanielSidhion
RT Learn about #Flash virtual game controllers for touch-based devices w/ this #article from @FlashGen
quickb2 simplifies the usage of box2d physic library | tutorial
RT Gaming Developer Center | Rendering animated models in mobile games
Introduction for Pushbutton Engine
Electrotank Universe Platform (EUP) is an interesting #game #server environment for Social MMO games
Game Closure launches HTML5-based cross-platform game technology
RT gSkinner: This is awesome! A very robust RPG game engine built on top of EaselJS
The Art of Video Game Title Screens
New version of Level Editor DAME 2 available | a review

Flash and Flex

RT gSkinner: Finally got around to adding a few more items to my AS3Libs Github repo. Nearly done
RT “@github_as3: as3-utils - reusable package-level functions that solve common problems” quite handy stuff!
cocoon-p2p: a library for #ActionScript focussed on local IP multicast (create #iOS remote controls)
RT That might come useful sometime - Sending Bluetooth commands via AIR using native process
BabelFX is a #localizing framework for #Flash & #Flex apps | article
RT Looks interesting for #Flex #Java #Enterprise apps, the Athena framework. Session/EntityManager for Client Side #ORM
RT Interactive Lab is proud to release open-source an essential part of our multi-touch framework - #as3 #tuio #osc parser
RT Flex Developer Center | Introducing Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK
Good preso on #Flex #performance with the new 4.5 SDK #skinning
RT Flex Developer Center | Flex mobile skins – Part 1: Optimized skinning basics
RT Incorporate #GPS in your #mobile #app with this #Adobe #Flex 4.5 #SDK walkthrough tutorial:
RT Article about persistant data when developing #mobile apps with #Flex 4.5
A very nice #tutorial series about item renderers for #Flex 4.5 mobile devices
RT Flash Builder Developer Center | ActionScript Code Coverage Plug-in for Flash Builder
RT Kudos to ZaaLabs for ZaaIL the super-useful alchemy port of DevIL
RT @flashforum: FlashFirebug: A Firefox extension that allows developers to debug AS3 flash files
ActionScript 3.0 Communication in Parallel Programming
RT Moonshine (AS3 IDE in AIR) (via @elsassph)
using the #Photoshop #Touch SDK with #AS3
RT Media Measurement in Flash Player 10.3

My most important Twitter Messages #9

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:03:53 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from January - March 2011:

Allgemein (General)

RT When buildings start to tweet: Good overview of recent media architecture examples (Via @strg_n, @Heuserkampf)
Kurzes schönes Videoportrait über Julis von Bismarck
Starting to upload FOTB2010 videos: Brendan Dawes - more going up regularly. (via @FOTB)
Great Master thesis by Tim Devine about Device Shifting and #Design #mobile
Sabine is talking about Functional Aesthetics book in TEDx Vienna
Maybe an interesting book: Web Aesthetics - How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
#Arte präsentiert ein Netzwerk für Künstler, Kulturproduzenten und alle anderen
Moving talk by Jonathan Harris on his work and the absurdities of digital livestyle
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network via Henning Schulze
Die Qual der Wiki-Wahl - #Wikis für #Wissensmanagement in Organisationen #dokumentation #vergleich
Nice articles about #urban based #computing & #design No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3
The Museum of Lost Interactions - very interesting and nice videos, too #media #archeology #art #design
RT open culture http://bit.ly/9qQrQD 340 free movies.
Sounds interesting: Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects

Generative Art:

More new great #generative #art tutorials from Nicolas Barradeau #flash #design
RT Fantastic geometry blog. http://moniker.name/worldmaking/
Neuer Monat, neuer Live-Mitschnitt. Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo über "Schönes aus Code"

Info Design and Visualization

Nice resource for #information visualization projects: #Crime Maps of England (London) #infovis #data #webservice
Free-for-any-use ArcGIS Online map services: basemaps, demographic, reference, and specialty maps.
RT Vis JavaScript-toolkit by @mbostock: Data-Driven Documents / D3 (via @moritz_stefaner, @peterpaulrubens).

UX and Interaction Design:

RT Nice collection about small screen solutions: (via @minstyle)
RT The Psychology of Web Performance: (via @uxzentrisch)
RT loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide: (via @janchriste)
Nice read: The ABC of behaviour #interaction #design #ux #article #read
Android UX Patterns via @richardleggett #interaction #interface #design
KinectTouch: turns any surface into a #TUIO touchpad using #kinect
rule based language for describing #multitouch #gestures by Lode Hoste

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Very cool body mapping #kinecthacks via @chrisoshea
Interesting effect: Kinect Cloth Simulations #processing
Newstweek: a device to manipulate news read by other people on wireless hotspots (cafes, libraries, airports)
Really nice project: Esper Domino #senseware
Nice Space Motion Design by Sebastian Neitsch
Amazing work of Ryota Kuwakubo's - the installation The Tenth Sentiment
Wow Legoplatformer looks so nice for some experimental prototypings... #interaction #tangible #ar

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

some nice thoughts on Face Tracking & Face Recognition in AR #ar #tracking
Biometric systems are developed for the detection of faces and gestures

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

RT EaselJS v0.2 is released! Focus for this release: making vector shapes & text on HTML5 canvas easier
RT @blogblog: #ParticleSDK, a #crossplaform SDK to develop native #mobile apps from one codebase
RT Let's take a look: Eloquent JavaScript is a guide to JavaScript that focuses on good programming techniques …
Less Framework 4 is now out
RT Oh lovely: CSS Easing Animation Tool by @matthewlein (via @@mrdoob)
RT Hand detection with Blobscanner in Processing
Nice tutorial how to work with #java + eclipse in #MaxMSP
PixelWave - Native 2D iPhone framework based on the Flash API

Physical Computing

RT Arduino The Documentary (2010) by gnd
Great! @make published a site only about #arduino projects. Nice resource of tutorials and articles http://makezine.com/arduino/
Nice tips and advices for perfect soldering. Especially for #physical #computing beginners like me via @make
http://www.inventables.com is a great resource for new #hardware and materials in physical (computing) projects.

Game Developing:

RT New video tutorial on creating isometric 3D with @as3isolib
Nice read for #gamedev: #Flash #Game #Monetization: Total revenue from last 3 years
Interesting article: Indie #Flash #Game Development: 2010 by Josh Tynjala #gamedev #monetize
Nice #paper about #modding and the impacts: Precarious Playbour: Modders and the Digital Games Industry
A great #paper: Moving #Learning #games Forward by http://www.educationarcade.org #serious #gaming #design
RT DAME is an awesome free tilemap editor for Flixel. Also extendable with Lua.

Flash and Flex

RT gskinner: Open source profiler for AS3. Definitely worth checking out.
RT nice list of #Flash #Compression Libraries
RT Blogged: Using BlackBerry PaymentService with Adobe AIR for the #PlayBook
RT Huge open-source gesture library released by @GestureWorks
Nice tutorial: #Flash + #Alchemy Series Part 2: Environment Setup
Nice implementation of SimpleStageVideo
RT What can you do with bytes ? - Updated!
#Flash media server 4 #whitepaper now available
Nice tool for using #flash content: Resolume #VJ #Software
Creating QR Codes in ActionScript via @riarockstars
RT Check out the latest diagramming and #visualization libraries for #Flex and #Air apps by @KapLab
RT AS3 API: AS3Square

My most important Twitter Messages #6

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:13:36 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2010:

Allgemein (General)

Reading 'How To Market Your Mobile Application' (via @smashingmag)
175 free woodworking ebooks
the Pop Sciences Archive is opened and for free!
Free Paper: The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices
really cool project! http://openmaterials.org/about/ and maybe helpful for some future projects (installations and tangible devices?!)
RT @ben_fry is higher education a bubble that's about to burst? http://j.mp/cjf4Nh (via @humphd)
RT @apolaine New on Playpen:: Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity
Adobe Story: A Collaborative Tool for Screenwriting - maybe useful in some future projects?!
Interesting: Slow Media Manifesto
Ole #Kristensen Homepage is a perfect resource for #stage-based #animations and #installations http://bit.ly/aHxX6T | http://bit.ly/d4a8Hn

Generative Art:

Mathematical Art and sculptures
Really great particle experiment with good potential for generative art projects
such a nice gallery: Complexification | Gallery of Computation #Generative #Art #Drawing

Info Design and Visualization

RT @DesignerDepot: 14 Visually Stunning Animated Infographics
Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)
Nice use and explanation of Jeff Heer's horizon charts (http://is.gd/a1MhQ ): "Hoe de kredietcrisis de beurs besmette" http://is.gd/a1Mfm
Launch: The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo - Great article!!! via @moritz_stefaner
http://wefeelfine.org/book has included some very nice data generated graphics - nice inspiration for info visualizatzion and generative art
RT @moritz_stefaner Put my presentation from Kassel last week up to slideshare: Information Aesthetics
RT @seb_ly how did I miss this? London underground trains' live position on a map!

UX and Interaction Design:

please welcome our new and growing project compilation on vimeo (via @idpotsdam)
Nice talk: Mike Kruzeniski-Poetry & Polemics in Creating Experience
MultiTouchGesture stuff: Talk | Icons#1 Icons#2 Icons#3
Reading all the paper of Organic User Interfaces http://www.organicui.org/
Designing Kinetic Interactions for OUI is a great article and it mentioned why interactive art is and was important
Some good thoughts on "natural" user interfaces by Don Norman: Natural User Interfaces are not Natural
Two nice talks about #EMOTIONs and #HAPPINESS in #Design processes. Perfect for the afternoon break

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

TouchDesigner, an authoring tool for building interactive 3D art, visualizations
RT @creativeapps toneglue is a nice Music band visualization App [WebApp, Flash]
Nice list: 11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface
Mobile physical-digital dial interface - Tangible Controller for your next generation mobile?!
Water-based touch screen interface - nice experiment-Dont know if it is helpful,at least it has a physical feedback
Interactive cookies for AR Applications http://tinyurl.com/yd9et59 and http://tinyurl.com/333odbr via MultiModal Interface Lecture
very nice media facade visualization
great audio visual based drawing project: Nodal Genesis- I almost fall in love with the vis techniques

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface
RT @quasimondo: Awesome puppet locomotion paper & video
boah shit sick face capturing. Much room for manipulation, like in the politic movie #WagTheDog
More information how this sick face capturing and scanning works
nice new PSD painting tools , especially in combination with http://bit.ly/2LcGnM and Coolpaint
New Material: Programmable Origami - reminds me on nano technology or intelligent textils

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Xuggler is the easy way to uncompress, modify, and re-compress any media file (or stream) from Java to a red5 server
Live Screencast in Flash mit Red5 und Java Streaming Library
VH Java Screen Capture SDK looks nice... Hopefully it will not become so expensive...
Freeware: VH Screen Capture Driver supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc
Pogg: Processing Theora Ogg Videos - Working with ogg (Streaming) Videos // thx @david_bru
kooaba’s image recognition web services API is public and their Query API is free! you can check
Great tool and lib for web harvesting / scraping to extract data from web pages
crazy Peter from Slovakia is an awesome visual animation programmer #processing. He rocks!
RT @jensfranke Benedikt Gross just released vers. 1.2 of his Processing Animation/tweening Library ANI. (via @CedricKiefer)
Very good resource for processing! http://wiki.processing.org/w/Main_Page

Physical Computing

Crazy LED clothes.... maybe hackable for something
nice website with tutorials in wearable technology http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/ via @popkalab
Hmm... this Amarino Project (Android meets Arduino) sounds interesting
Arduino is now flexible- seems perfect for fashionable projects?!
First Steps with Arduino - nice video tutorial for beginners via @make

Game Developing:

Flash Game Developer: Announcing Mochi Social & the Mochi GAME Developer Fund
Updated my FLash Game Lib Blog with some Links: PushButton Engine vs. Flixel Game Engine and other tutorial links

Flash and Flex

ASSURF by Eugene is an impressive image-based pattern recognition library for Flash
Two great tutorials for particle effects with flint: Introduction | Flint in a Game
RT Stevehoward999 nice bunch of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 tutorials from Adobe TV
RT @mchaize: Yes ! Adobe Flex is open ! The AdvancedDataGrid and Charting components are open source
Flash Builder 4 is still FREE for students and teachers
Introduction to Flex 4 videos --> Good video links
RT thibault_imbert Blogged : Optimizing Flash Ads whitepaper and some XFL Gourmet
„Optimizing Performance for the Flash Platform.” Tipps für Flash Player 10.1. (pdf)
Optimizing web content for Flash Player 10.1 - a nice video talk
very cool article for MySQL + PHP and Flex Projects
Added http://www.flashscope.com/ on my blogpost for selling and buying flash components
Hm, I dont know why I found this http://flexbookmarks.com/ not ealier... But it seems to be a cool flex blog collection

My most important Twitter Messages #5

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:15:37 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from Januar - February 2010:

Allgemein (General)

Alexis Milant is a great video artist. Especially this video I like very much
RT @golan: Just discovered that Ars Electronica is putting their archives on Vimeo
Nice list of demos and good points for #creative #visual #flash prorgramming. Thx to @mrdoob http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/685
Sehr coole Auswahl von Videokunstwerken - Arte Video Art Night Marathon
Funny interactive (media) installation Moving Mario thx @Bager for the link
Nice Project. The Sand-Printer via @make http://tinyurl.com/y8fhz4f
Interesting Master Program: European Masters in Ludic Interfaces
One of the best stage-based animations I have seen yet. Chunky Move's Mortal Engine
Interesting book puplished: Interactive Architecture Book Homepage
iFreeTablet the free alternative from ipad much cheaper and all open source. http://www.ifreetablet.com/ via @mcanet
Open source hardware - feature story in Wired - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
Cool Java-based circuit simulator. a good helper for physical computing experiments
Hm is this an interesting master study or just a trend study for getting new students: MA Social Media
puredyne - USB-bootable GNU/LINUX OS for creative media via @shervinafshar
Sehr guter und informativer Artikel zum Thema #Wissensmanagement (3.0). Nur der Schluss ist ein wenig schwach..

Generative Art:

Ich bin nun überzeugt und werd mir das Buch kaufen. http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ Visual Programming Lernen vom Feinsten
RT @rafiqelmansy Fractal Art: Inspiration with Equations http://bit.ly/8UblDj
Really great generative art experiment - Alice in Wonderland, which worked with text as material and flash

Info Design and Visualization

RT @grumplet: 7500 words by Henry Hadlow in one image. Reviews Eigenfactor.org, Photosynth, wk.com, SeadragonCool info design project: Knowledge Cartography http://www.knowledgecartography.org/ via MStäbler,other nice project http://eigenfactor.org/
COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN (PHD Thesis) or Book from Ben Fry available as a PDF download
Choosing Colours for Data Visualization (.pdf) - prostheticknowledge
RT Upcoming later this year: O'Reilly's "Beautiful Visualization" http://is.gd/6Zlt9 featuring a chapter on "X by Y" http://is.gd/6ZlCr

UX and Interaction Design:

RT interaction design history slideshow (via @ighfggmuend)
PhD Thesis: An Exploration of Multi-finger Interaction on Multi-touch Surfaces by Shahzad Malik as a PDF Download
Nice list and maybe useful for some research papers... A DIRECTORY OF SOURCES FOR INPUT TECHNOLOGIES by Bill Buxton
Nice system!! MultiTouch Cell is the first multitouch LCD for fully scalable display arrays
Again,I highly recommend this book for Mobile Interface Design.It is old but many interface concepts are still upToDate
Now I am convinced about the advantages of http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ for Interaction Designer. Rapid Prototyping Tool for Remote Devices
Disappearing mobile devices - a paper and concept by Hasso Plattner Institut Potsdam
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files via @smashingmag
RT @fuelinterface Amazing Alternative Interfaces That Will Change Our Lives | Fuel Your Interface ->Interesting overview
scalable actuated shape display from MIT's Tangible Media Group
Physical Gestures to Document Design Research
Dan Saffer's Talk: Researching and Designing Interactive Gestures

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Nice Project from MIT: High Low Tech http://hlt.media.mit.edu/
Wearable Technologies and other High and Low Tech Stuff from the MIT via @make interesting video report!
Secret handshake of the future from the tangible Interface class of the MIT via @make
RT “Notput” is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch:
LED Galaxy Dress by CuteCircuit is World’s Largest Wearable Display
Great use of Augmented Reality! LEGO Manual With ARToolKit
That is a really crazy map-location-based mash up demo - augmented-reality maps by microsoft
EKG-controlled Game of Life hoodie via @make
TouchDesigner, an authoring tool for building interactive 3D art, visualizations

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

A Dynamic Facade
Nice examples and nice #augmented reality SDK for common #mobile Devices http://tinyurl.com/yz6hny3 | SDK www.metaio.com/products/mobile/

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Let Arduino communicate with each other. Arduino control the other Arduino.Maybe the new Adruino Virus?!via @make
Xuggler is the easy way to uncompress, modify, and re-compress any media file (or stream) from Java to a red5 server http://www.xuggle.com/
Live Screencast in Flash mit Red5 und Java Streaming Library
VH Java Screen Capture SDK looks nice... Hopefully it will not become so expensive..
Freeware: VH Screen Capture Driver supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc

Game Developing:

Playyoo is an interesting plattform for Flash Mobile and Flash Lite Game Developer http://blog.playyoo.com/ and http://playyoo.com/
Interesting report: Indie Flash Game Development: A 2009 Year-End Retrospective
Blog article: Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009
Flash Game License: Looking Back at 2009: Trends and Statistics
Very cool styles for Casual Computer Games: Skateboard // Jump N Run Adventure
RT Getting Started: PushButton Engine recording from #SeaFlex last night: http://bit.ly/74jCHc (via @jnbeck)
Wow! a big Graphical User Interface Collection of Games. Useful for research in interaction design in Games http://gamegui.net/
Fast statistic consumption... RT @dotmick: Videogame Statistics
Cool game design prototypes for tangible interfaces: DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator)
SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo - A further nice tangible Game Interface idea!
Nice article about creating a MMO browser game with Flash (Game: zOMG)
RT Addressing color blindness in (game) design http://is.gd/8HWrQ (via @elsassph)
Looks good: Flash Gaming on NVIDIA Tablets
Two great tutorials for particle effects with flint: Introduction Flint in a Game

Flash and Flex

Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API library released by Sean Moore
RT New #Processing book by Ira Greenberg, The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers, is here!
RT @_sandro Highly interesting! Jangaroo - Actionscript 3 to Javascript Compiler! http://www.jangaroo.net/home/ - i think i'm in love
Nice list: 5 useful Flash applications listed by Mihai CORLAN
xmoovStream PHP video server for Flash. Not real Streaming, but progressive download with seeking functionality
RT Red5 Developer Series videos from @newviewnetworks look awesome! http://bit.ly/4KJBu2
RT We just released ASDocr, an AIR 2.0 app for working w/ASDoc. Makes documenting AS3 code much easier!
RT Here it is: @matthbooth's excellent webcam light-painting tutorial - http://bit.ly/4sipE5
This Controlling the rain project with Arduino and Flash gives a nice introduction into physical computing
Good introduction video tutorial for the Flash Gaia Website Framework
Whitpaper about Flex (Slider) Framework and mobile devices
Great resources for optimizing your content for flash mobile devices
A really useful set of ActionScript classes and utilities "to get you coding faster and more reliably": http://casalib.org
Pixelwave, framework for iPhones Games/Apps, based completely on the Flash AS3 API #iphone #flash (via @fplag)
You can monetize your Flex Components, Flex and Air applications with FlexDen.net http://www.flexden.net/
FlashSURF by Eugene is an impressive image-based pattern recognition library for Flash

My most important Twitter Messages #4

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:03:16 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from November - December 2009:

Allgemein (General)

Great homepage with top-level talks for creative coders, designer and other artists
Very interesting media facade project. Partly based on Adobe Air Sorftware
Nice article: Media Facades: Fundamental terms and concepts
International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
Very interesting designer: http://www.waldemeyer.com/ especially for the domain of wearable technology fashion. Also his blog
Some inspiration for your wishlist? Physical Computing Ahoi!
Very cool!! Real SVN Functionality for Photoshop with PixelNovel
Wiigee is a nice java library for working with gestures and the wiimote. a port for ActionScript would be nice
Reuters open MetaData (Semantic Web) Database looks interesting for webservice and information experiments
Wow! The New York Times began to open their Information Archives! http://data.nytimes.com/
Nice Geo coding API for Web 2.0 services
Interactive installations wanted for the FITC Amsterdam
Found an archive database for Media Art. Maybe it could be useful during my studies in interactive art
Nice Graphic about Qualities of Information Design
Great slides about a good business culture in a creative environment
fascinated by the Theremin Music instrument and tv documentation (deutsch)
Yale University's Psychology course on Youtube. **OFF TOPIC**
Holy shit that is the best parkour action I have ever seen!! **OFF TOPIC**
Ziemlich interessante Präsentation über die Kombination von Mobile Art und Urban Displays von Jürgen Scheible
Nett zu lesen: Digitale Nachhaltigkeit – ein Konzept mit Zukunft

Generative Art:

Interesting blog entry on 'Generative Art' via @Natzke
Generative Art Tool - out of the box via @generatorx
Ich bin nun überzeugt und werd mir das Buch kaufen. http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ Visual Programming Lernen vom Feinsten
Umfangreiche Artikel Sammlung zum Thema Generative Tools für die digitale Medienkunst

UX and Interaction Design:

Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit via @fplag
Great blog about interaction, architecture, space, user experience etc.
Marking Menus are a very good concept for mouse gestures and menu navigation issues
Must read article: Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces -> degree of openness from a technical view
Wow, very nice idea of a physical computing interface: VoodooIO
Nice video list of Tangible User Interfaces
Nice Blog and very good articles: Designing Kinetic and Organic User Interfaces
Two great articles about User Experience in an Agile Development process (or in Scrum) http://tinyurl.com/ycj5a32

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Amazing sound sculptures from motors & more via @make
Stumbled again about the lego Time Tracking thing. I really like this nerdy idea
Should I really try it? http://suicidemachine.org/ a nice net (art) project idea
Nice project: Ego search visualizer from MIT Lab: the project page
MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat - Interesting Project
Looking for SenseWare: My Examples -> funktionide // LiquidWall // Poken
Pimp your iPhone for RFID
Wii remote for MAME on iPhone
Nice experiment! iPhone controlled Arduino tank
DIY accelerometer controlled USB gamepad
wow, a 45m long multitouch wall via @jensfranke, @CedricKiefer, @memotv / Don't know if this useful...
itsme the next generation of personal computing?! I don't know...
Very cool idea or app for an eyetracker approach
Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Wow the City Engine Software looks great for Science Fiction and other Urban Movie Post Production stuff
Transform your real pictures into nice drawings: Research Project GradientShop

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
Uh nice topic for Computer Scientist in Media: Opportunistic Programming

Game Developing:

Blog article: Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009
Interesting report: Indie Flash Game Development: A 2009 Year-End Retrospective
A must read for all Flash Indie Game Developer: Badim's Total revenue from last 2 years blog post
Playyoo is an interesting plattform for Flash Mobile and Flash Lite Game Developer http://blog.playyoo.com/ and http://playyoo.com/
Adobe starts "#Flash Platform #Gaming Technology Center" (Center) via @flashforum
Some nice and useful video tutorials for the Flash Push Button Game Engine
Thoughtful article from @GregLoire on Achievement Design 101 via @mochimedia
Nice Blogpost: Creating a Game Design Document
Nice article: Running a Game Studio: From Start-Up to Sustainability

Flash and Flex

Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API library released by Sean Moore
Blog post: 34 cool ActionScript Libraries by Sean Moore
Great Voronoi open-source library for AS3 published
Harmcrest is a nice Form and User Interface Input Validation Library and Framework for Flex
Adobe #Flash and search engine optimization (#SEO): Techniques, issues, and strategies: (via @marcthiele)
Maybe the Flash Plattform gives P2P a new chance to establish in the area of network (streaming) technologies?!
Tweetr AS3 Library 0.95 Released by @_sandro check out:

My most important Twitter Messages #3

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:47 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from September - October 2009:

Allgemein (General)

Wow! nice black-white photography compilation
Sadly... but it is so true... the hierarchy of digital distractions - nice info graphic
Nice Blog Post: How I find good folks to collaborate with
Readin the paper: What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory
RT @scene360 Is it made with Paint or Code? — Illusion 360 - World's Most Amazing Art, Design, Technology, Video
Freaky pictures on Nikon Small World Gallery
Wow!!! Bullet impacts at 1,000,000 frames per second
I like the web app Tilt-Shiftmaker! http://tiltshiftmaker.com/
Tracks on a Map - A nice data visualization example http://www.tracksonamap.com/
Emperor's Castle amazing papercraft and here more amazing photos
Nice essay for dealing with the topic of interactive art: FEEDBACK: FROM OBJECT TO PROCESS AND SYSTEM
Another nice essay: Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication
really nice! Combo: A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
Nice talk: The Wizard of Data Art, Aaron Koblin
Please read the important words from Jonathan Harris: World Building in a crazy world! and think about it
Interested in generative drawing?! watch this
(Reading: Swarm Theory Article)

UX and Interaction Design:

Really nice presentation Slides: Interacting with the Semantic Web
UX topic: understanding experience of social-network-sites nice article
How to Understand Your Users with Personas - A nice comic explanation
Nice blog article: Creating a Timeless User Experience
interesting interview: Drawing Ideas and Communicating Interaction
Reading the paper: Emerging Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Delta bot a nice roboter for mouse interaction via processing and arduino
Very nice Flash Augmented Reality Experiment Idea: Augmented Reality Texture Extraction
very nice vector-based drawing tool with very nice brushes!! http://www.livebrush.com/ via @fplag
ACME – Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments - Impressive project!
G-speak The Spatial Operating Environment - Minority Report Interface System Yeah the future has begun
2d Sketches Become 3d Reality
Could be a nice interface for games -> electric stimulus to face
Video: Strategy Game R.U.S.E. with Multitouch Interaction
Nice product for ubiquitous blackboard installation: IdeaPaint!! Maybe also nice for hack the social space
The piece was created to explore a sense of connection and playfulness in multiple urban open spaces" via @jensfranke

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills
Amazing!!... Reconstructing Building Interiors from Images
WOW!!! ILoveSketch, a gesture-based 3D sketchpad. Amazing!
Markerless camera tracking (via @alexmilde) via @jensfranke
Amazing Mobile AR Videos from Graz
PhotoSketch as new compositing and photo search engine tool for pictures looks unbelievable!
Totally insane, crazy, nuts, mad and anything else. The CryEngine 3
Shape Recognition and Pose Estimation for Mobile (!) Augmented Reality
Next generation of image manipulation!!! Content-Aware Fill from Adobe - more info
That AR stuff rocks! Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
Hi-speed robotic hand - impressive: via @Quasimondo
Muscle-Computer Interfaces (muCIs) from Microsoft

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

The Duct Tape Programmer - the new programmer boheme?!
I really like the idea of: Fifth-generation programming language

Game Developing:

Great news. The unity Game Engine is now free for Indie Game Developer
Do you need sounds for your (Flash) Game? Then check this cool app Thx to 8bitRocket.com

Flash and Flex

Away3d released a very lite version of their Flash 3D Engine.
nice generative sound library for Flash. Looks greate for some interaction stuff like games etc!
I think Flex Charts for data visualization is yesterday, Axiis will become the new tool! Read this and try
Almost all Max 2009 presentations on AdobeTV thx @_sandro
New post: Eclipse Plug-in: Download AS3 libraries straight to your Eclipse/Flex Builder/FDT project http://bit.ly/10egz0 (via @Powerflasher)
Reading: AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview... Sounds nice for Software Developer and maybe also for digital aritists
Watching Advanced Data Visualization with Flex at Adobe Max 2009
Fall in love with http://www.liquidjourney.com/ such a greate resource for creative visual coding!
watching the talk: What is new in Flex 4
Found a new great blog about physical computing with Flash and Flex!!
FLash Particle Engine Stardust Video Tutorials!
Nice Flash Framework Hype for creative coding is in progress. The first examples looks very great

Meine wichtigsten Twitter Messages #2

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:51:21 +0000

Hier eine kleine geordnete Zusammenfassung meiner wichtigsten Twittermeldungen:

Allgemein (General)

Here are 192 of the best creative, smart and clever advertising messages (link via Philip Fieber)
Gartner Hype Cycle 2009 - a Technology Trend Chart
Nice words about Joseph Weizenbaum (link via @david_sch)
Wow! Very nice list -> Massive Compilation of Designer Tools
very nice blog post about the concept and idea of information visualization via @jensfranke
Unbelievable COLOR photos from Tsarist Russia, recently restored by Library of Congress: via @make

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

nice idea of a visual-based music instrument - The tablet guitar
uh ActionScript Painter is a very nice Flash app for creating abstract graphic effects http://painter.grootlicht.com/ I like it very much
I would love a combination of this and this for a google maps racing game
Uuuuhhhh ahhhhh. Nice Projection on buildings. Is this a new trend?! via Adrian Koch
Latest @evoflash AS3 demo: http://bit.ly/19xu5Q. Impressive!! (via @mrdoob)
nice interaction design idea for 3D shooter games or nice simple technology for interactive media installations
Nice 3D-augmented realtiy Marble game
Also a nice flash demo from evoflash: Proof of Concept
NICE!! -> AR navigation system for Andorid
WOW. If you are bored, please do this kind of stop motion

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Bokode the new generation of barcodes and tracking tags?! Created by the MIT lab:
I have seen this laser tracking at the ars electronica in linz. Has someone a more information about this project?!
Research: Carnegie Mellon University developed a system for Inflatable buttons for touch screens.
New generation of gamer keyboards:Pressure sensitive computer keyboard

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Object Oriented Software Design Article #1: Is Inheritance overrated ? Needed even?
Object Oriented Software Design Article #2: How to Use Design Patterns A Conversation with Erich Gamma
Object Oriented Software Design Article #3: Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse
Object Oriented Software Design Article #4: Erich Gamma Design Principles from Design Patterns

Game Developing:

Paper for Virtual Worlds Economics Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier
Downloadbare Masterarbeit: Die Makroökonomie einer virtuellen Welt
nice article: Top 10 Tips on How to Improve a Game Quality Assurance Department
Game Article round up #1: Learning from Games: A Language for Designing Emotion
Game Article round up #2: Party crashers! iPhone/social games make old-guard casual game companies envious
Game Article round up #3: Social game companies light the way for old-guard casual game makers
Interesting article on the making of World of Warcraft : via @mesh
Two nice must-read articles for Indie Flash Developer or for newbies in this subject http://tinyurl.com/kqb6cw and http://tinyurl.com/nawrta
Game Design: Nice list of enemy types in casual games
diploma thesis for Game Developers: A Unified Framework for Rigid Body Dynamics

Mobile and Flash Lite

Nice UI Components for Flash Lite Apps and Games http://bit.ly/mbDMz
New adobe devnet available: Extending Flash Lite for the Digital Home Entertainment
New Flash Lite Tutorials for List UIs and Touch Events available on the LG dev center

Flash and Flex

Flash Media Streaming: New RTMPe content protection white paper http://bit.ly/Pu3Jl
YellowBird - Flash Video in 360 degree from netherlands - nice! http://bit.ly/qf2dN
Joa released a nice Tool for reducing the file size of a swf File, when you use the Embed Tag for graphics
Grape Animation Library is a very nice Library for path-based Animations in Games and Animation Movies
FlexPMD is a tool for improving your code quality. Now it is OpenSource and it looks nice
Bitmap Animation API Released – Ginger from Cheezeworld - Very useful for Bitmap Based Games
Neues Buch im Bookstore: Flash Engineering: Agile Ansätze zum Bau von RIAs mit Flash, Flex und Actionscript
Free Flash & Flex Mag Issue 05/2009 to download
yeah found this ActionScript Library for physical interaction with THE adruino board!
Robert Penner started a new AS3 Event System, wich is inspired by C# It sounds interesting
Stardust Particle Engine is a nice ActionScript Library for Particle Effects in 2D and 3D!