In 2014, Google acquired a company called Skybox imaging for $500 million. The startup aimed to provide a different type of map: HD Video of areas on Earth from space. Since the acquisition, the company website has been removed, but …
It’s easy to find maps that are pretty, seductive, and (purportedly) explanatory. Find a map that interests you — and then find a problem with it. (Or at least, identify something about it that concerns you.) Write a Looking …
This is a map correlating topography and extroversion of the inhabitants of a region. It is made by Shigehiro Oishi for the research Personality and Geography: Introverts prefer mountains. States on the left of the graph are flatter than …
Looking Foward 2 – Mapping Global Conflict
This is a really cool map. It maps out conflict, categorizing it into protests and violence against civilians and plots it on a map over time. Conflict has always been heavily covered by …
(this is not an oF project but it’s something that I plan on integrating into oF at some point)
There is much ongoing research into the simulation of relatively simple creatures. Not very different from how emulators for video games…
Squaring up to the Square Mile
Squaring up to the Square Mile was conceived as a tool for protesters at London’s 2009 G20 summit. Listing the location of almost every major law firm, arms trader, bank, and other generic ‘evil’ …
openFrameworks Example
Golan said something about obtaining a robot arm for IACD in class on Tuesday that set my wheels turning. I was exposed to the idea of using robot arms for creative practice last semester when I saw this …
“Play the World” by Zach Lieberman is a keyboard that plays snippets of sounds from radio stations all over the world. Each key plays sounds that roughly match its corresponding pitch, through a speaker that is in the direction of …
An OF project I found interesting is the Trace ribbon – an emergence by movement by Shohei Fujimoto: http://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/trace-ribbon-an-emergence-by-movement/
Trace Ribbon is a device that automatically and continuously records and plays back movement. It reads movement using leap motion …
Project in OF: Nikola Tesla in Sound and Light
“Nikola Tesla in Sound and Light” is a show by magician Marco Tempest who is known for the use of multimedia, computer graphics and interactive technology in his performances. It tells …