Friday, February 25, 2011

A "large" zelda tribute !


Source : 3DVf via pixiv

Processing Book

A french book about Processing.
Processing

You get the pdf if you buy the book. Some chapter are available for free.

Maskarad Di-O-Matic

A markerless facial mocap software : It localizes automatically the face and track it.

Maskarad



Source : 3Dvf

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Nano flying birds

A strange flying acquisition bird.
AeroVironment Develops World's First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA. For more information visit: www.avinc.com/nano

Робот-колибри (видео)



MattePainting Studio

Making of Matte Paintings by MattePainting-Studio


making of matte painting

Click on the source to watch the video !
A lot of work have been done to obtain those images !
Source : CgArena

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Sixtine chapel in HD panorama


The vatican have released a HD panorama of the sixtine Chapel. (Micheal Ange ! art)
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Notice at the right bottom of the picture the skin without body inside ... I think there exist other strange things in the paintaing ..

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Average face per country

This study show average faces per country...
Quite fun to see :

French :
Average French MaleAverage French Female



Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All?

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All?



https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/world-of-averages-europeave/
https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/world-of-averages-populations-of-the-americas/
https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/world-of-averages-africans/
https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/world-of-facial-averages-middle-eastern-and-central-asian/
https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/world-of-facial-averages-east-southeast-asia-pacific-islander/

Source : Izismile

Phantom Camera HD

A cat filmed by a PhantomHD camera at 800 fps :



It's a kind of poetic ;)

Here a table of capacity of the camera :

RésolutionMax FPS
2048x2048555
2048x1104 (2k 1.85)1029
2048x872 (2k 2.35)1302
1920x1080 (HDTV 16:9)1052
1632x1200946
1280x8001419
1280x720 (HDTV 16:9)1576
1152x8961267
800x6001890
640x4802316
512x5122213
256x2564410

Monday, February 7, 2011

Fast typing to console controllers

http://circboard.com/ explore a nice idea to allow user to type "fast" with a gamepad.



Source engadget

Friday, February 4, 2011

C++Inder a C++ library

C++Inder is for the C++ that was Processing is for Java.

CINDER PROVIDES A POWERFUL, INTUITIVE TOOLBOX for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry. Cinder is cross-platform, and in general the exact same code works under Mac OS X, Windows and a growing list of other platforms — most recently the iPhone and iPad.

Cinder is designed to take advantage of platforms’ native capabilities whenever it’s possible, and relies on a minimum of 3rd party libraries. This makes for much lighter, faster applications, and means Cinder apps get free performance, security and capability upgrades whenever the operating system does.

We also have worked hard to create a library that feels familiar and intuitive to C++ programmers, building on the idioms and techniques the C++ community has developed over its long history. Cinder’s modern internal memory management virtually eliminates leaks, not only of memory but also of resources like OpenGL textures. We make use of the exceptional Boost libraries to fill in any gaps, and always favor techniques built on features which are currently or soon will be standard C++ (such as std::thread or std::shared_ptr).

We are proud of Cinder, and while we think you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more powerful environment for creative coding, we’re just getting started. We hope you’ll take the time to experiment with Cinder yourself, and if you like what you see, come join our community.

A example of "demo" application with Kinect :


Hand Tracking from Andrew Berg on Vimeo.

In the same vein you have also TOXICLIBS :

I particularly like this demo :
http://toxiclibs.org/2010/01/re-inventing-the-wheel/

More Kinect ( a musical clip )

In the same spirit as the clip with laser point cloud, a music clip with Kinect point cloud :

Echo Lake - Young Silence from Dan Nixon on Vimeo.


Source 3DVF.com

Wednesday, February 2, 2011