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HV. Self-replicating artificial intelligence program named Dorothy.

Galerians: Ash (2002) PS2

Jeff Chang

Designer and artist is experimenting with ARKit to place and control cute characters he has created and place them in realworld scenes:

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Jeff has a Tumblr account [@jeffchangart] but you can find updates on Instagram here

Sacred Mathematics - Japanesse Temple Geometry

This is a book about a special kind of geometry that was invented and widely practiced in Japan during the centuries when Japan was isolated from Western influences. Japanese geometry is a mixture of art and mathematics. The experts communicated with one another by means of sangaku, which are wooden tablets painted with geometrical figures and displayed in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Each tablet states a theorem or a problem. It is a challenge to other experts to prove the theorem or to solve the problem. It is a work of art as well as a mathematical statement. Sangaku are perishable, and the majority of them have decayed and disappeared during the last two centuries, but enough of them have survived to fill a book with examples of this unique Japanese blend of exact science and exquisite artistry.

Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press and Oxford

http://kknop.com/math/sangaku.pdf

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Game Creator

Last episode of the season from tocotocotv profiles developer responsible for many music-related video games, most famously recognized for Rez.

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Our last episode of the season features Tetsuya Mizuguchi, game creator and founder of the Enhance Games studio. Mizuguchi is the creator behind the iconic Rez, recently remastered as Rez Infinite, he also created Lumines, Child of Eden or Space Channel 5, which are all gaming experiences strongly influenced by music. Always ahead of his time, Mizuguchi will tell us more about his motivations behind Rez Infinite, and his pursuit of new forms of perception, supported by new technologies such as virtual reality, or through original concepts such as the Synesthesia Suit. Our day with Mizuguchi will take us to the heights of Mori Tower, then to the intimacy of the Restaurant Bohemian, where we will learn more about his philosophy and his work. 

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Struggle no more – Virtually choose your nail polish color

In an effort to solve the trial-by-purchase problem, the nail gurus at Sally Hansen are introducing a new app which lets you virtually paint on nail polish.

With ManiMatch, there’s no need to upload a photo or take a picture. Launch the app and put your hand in front of the camera and it starts scanning to determine your skin tone in order to provide color recommendations. Choose one, and the app paints the color right onto your nails then, Voila! Your nails on the screen.

“Free your mind”.

Augmented reality sandbox - move the land around and it shows off the topography and sea/water level.

Checks

This dartboard from former NASA engineer Mark Rober guarantees a bull’s-eye through the power of software, motors, and motion tracking.

NSynth Super

Project from Google Creative Lab is an open source physical interface for their NSynth project, which generates news sounds using Machine Learning to understand them:

Building upon past research in this field, Magenta created NSynth (Neural Synthesizer). It’s a machine learning algorithm that uses a deep neural network to learn the characteristics of sounds, and then create a completely new sound based on these characteristics.

Rather than combining or blending the sounds, NSynth synthesizes an entirely new sound using the acoustic qualities of the original sounds—so you could get a sound that’s part flute and part sitar all at once.

Since the release of NSynth, Magenta have continued to experiment with different musical interfaces and tools to make the output of the NSynth algorithm more easily accessible and playable.

Using NSynth Super, musicians have the ability to explore more than 100,000 sounds generated with the NSynth algorithm.

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