Launching The Future Of Space Communications

AR WindowsXP Error

Little visual experiment by Henry Everett employs iOS ARKit to produce that familiar computer crash effect:

Getting some errors in #ARKit today. Cc: @comboldn pic.twitter.com/PWjS0npiUI

— Henry Everett (@henryeverett)

August 16, 2017

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Marble machine 

Tele-Present Water by David Bowen

I rarely use the phrase ‘mind blown’, but this is one of those rare occurrences.

An art installation which combines real-time data, mechanical puppetry, and a physical grid representation usually employed virtually with computers:

This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46246, 49.985 N 145.089 W (49°59'7" N 145°5'20" W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from halfway around the world.

Link to the artist’s website for this work can be found here

vvvv academy

Dominik Koller is starting workshops to learn how to use creative coding platform which is used by many professionals in the interactive field starting this summer in Berlin - no experience required, only your own laptop:

We are launching our first ever full vvvv course in August 2017.

In eight weekly sessions, this course provides you with a strong foundation for using creative technology and building interactive interfaces.

No previous knowledge needed.

Each week, we will focus on a topic:     

 2x vvvv basics     

 Sound reactive visuals

 2x Projection Mapping

 Motion Tracking: Kinect

 Arduino and Electronics

 3D and Virtual Reality

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Harold Halibut

Video game created by @slow-bros is an adventure whose assets were originally handmade to produce a stop-motion feel to the experience:

Harold Halibut is a modern adventure game, with a strong focus on storytelling and exploration. Set in a spaceship, stuck under sea on a distant water planet, you slip into the tiny shoes of Harold. As a young janitor and lab assistant to Professor Jeanne Mareaux, one of the lead scientists on board, he tries to help out in her attempt to find a way to relaunch the ship.

All that can be seen in the game is carefully built in a real-world workshop using classic sculpting, set building and clay and puppet fabrication techniques. We’re not even buying supplemental model train trees or anything.

Our love of stop-motion films, childhood nostalgia and respect for traditional craftsmanship are some reasons for this. Patience and taking a break from an ultra-fast paced digital reality are big factors as well. 

The project has just released a kickstarter campaign which has more information, which you can find here

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AYA-BAMBI - slic + style2paint

Another experiment from LuluXXX exploring Machine Learning visual outputs, combining black and white image colourization, slic superpixels image segmentation and style2paint manga colourization on footage of Aya-Bambi dancing:

mixing slic superpixels and style2paint. starts with version2 than version4 plus a little breakdown at the end and all 4 versions of the algorithm. music : Spettro from NadjaLind mix - https://soundcloud.com/nadjalind/nadja-lind-pres-new-lucidflow-and-sofa-sessions-meowsic-mix original footage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2YhzBjiYUg 

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Death Mask

Programming project from Or Fleisher and Anastasis Germanidis combines Augmented Reality and Machine Learning, using a Neural Net trained for age prediction through mobile camera device:

‘Death-Mask’ predicts how long people have to live and overlays that in the form of a “clock” above they’re heads in augmented reality.  The project uses a machine learning model titled AgeNet for the prediction process. Once predicted it uses the average life expectancy in that location to try and estimate how long one has left.

The aesthetic inspiration derives from the concept of death masks. These are sculptures meant to symbolize the death of a person by casting his face into a sculpture (i.e mask).

The experiment uses ARKit to render the visual content in augmented reality on an iPad and CoreML to run the machine learning model in real-time. The project is by no means an accurate representation of one’s life expectancy and is more oriented towards the examination of public information in augmented reality in the age of deep learning.

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Machine learning could finally crack the 4,000-year-old Indus script

After a century of failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines.

The ultimate puzzle!

Supervised Machine Learning Trainer 3607A

Speculative Design video short from Benedict Hubener, Keyur Jain, and James Zhou of CIID imagines how the future of Smart City maintenence works, with on-site engineers handling Machine Learning equipment with surveillance infrastructure:

In the near future, cities are filled with smart infrastructure such as decentralized security cameras, self-sorting trashcans and intelligent street lights. But who do you call when smart things breaks? The future smart city is not a sci-fi dystopia made out of glass, concrete, and job stealing robots. It’s place much like our own and filled with the banality of everyday life and mundane jobs. Regardless of how you imagine the future smart city, someone needs to get in their white van, take out their ladder, and fix broken things.

The SMLT 3607A or Supervised Machine Learning Trainer is a tool for the future city maintenance worker. He/she can use the SMLT to interface with abnormally behaving smart infrastructure such as a surveillance camera identifying people as eggplants. He/she can retrain the smart camera by recording new examples in real time. The future maintenance worker will teach the camera what it’s seeing and curator the training dataset. He/she will help the camera learn the difference between people and objects and decide who should be classified as an upstanding citizen or a petty criminal.

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