Category — 3d

[Shapeways | via Jamais Cascio]

[YouTube | Bumptop | via Spatial Robots]

photo by oskay (this is not the actual 3D printer)

“Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team.”

[ continue reader @ Computer World | RepRap]

[Make3D via Beyond the Beyond]

“It uses the same set-up that that video of Demo 2004 that-took-the-Internet-by-storm-some-mon ths-ago-and-it-really-made-some-servers- crash-down-yes-it’s-true! Here it shows you could move a building ! A funny side-effect of the tracking at the end, you can hit the real table and make the virtual car shake.”

[via smashing magazine]

Demo video of new conceptual game ‘levelHead’ by Julian Oliver.

This is an actual game-prototype using techniques and tools from a well-known branch of computer vision called Augmented Reality.

Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (they are traps).

The player has 2 minutes to find the exit of each cube, leading the character into the entrance of the next..

Work is also being done to use invisible markers such that the cube itself appears entirely white to the naked eye.

Project page: http://julianoliver.com/levelhead

[via smashing magazine]

[via smashing magazine]

[via centripetal notion]

[Youtube Video 1 | Youtube Video 2 | Earthmine]

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