Looking Outwards 2 (Alan Herman)
This is a really cool project I found on OpenProcessing where you get a 3D face made out of dots. The coolest thing about this project to me is that it has a very futuristic feeling to it, by this I mean that it feels like you are playing with something completely different from what you have ever before played and it makes you feel like you are interacting with an object from the future which triggers thoughts about how we will work with objects in the future. Maybe in the mornings we will wake up and we can try out different hair styles or maybe we can play with objects in this way. To me it feels a little like the movie Minority Report and how the characters interact with everyday object. An interesting thing to point out is that the code is made of less than one hundred lines (distributed in three files).
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=1995
WebCanvas.com is a giant digital canvas where everyone can draw pictures or write something and it will stay there until either somebody else erases it or the page gets shut down. It is very cool because it is a collaborative painting and there are actually some very nice drawings combined with others. The most interesting aspect to me about the project, besides the collaboration, is the fact that the painting is constantly changing and being transformed by the users so the painting is never really the same.
The last project I want to show is Project Milo which was a project which never went to retail but was unveiled as a prototype in the E3 video game fair in 2009. It is a game or maybe it cannot be considered a game, in which a virtual charracter who is a kid called Milo interacts with the user and reacts to the voice, motion and emotions of the user. If it was true, it would be a really cool friend to have. It is just very interesting to me the possibility of this actually being part of the near future.
I also wanted to share this video just because I think it is a really awesome project going on at CMU with very cool applications for the future in general and for art, it is called Claytronics.