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Al Jazari – scooping out the insides of planets with scheme
Optimisation is a game where you write more code in order to do less. In Al Jazari 2 doing less means drawing less blocks. Contiguous blocks of the same type are already automatically collapsed into single larger ones with the Octree – but if we can figure out which blocks are completely surrounded by other…
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Skate/BMX ramp projection
Jaye Louis Douce, Ruth Ross-Macdonald and I took to the ramps of Mount Hawke skate park in deepest darkest Cornwall to test the prototype tracker/projection mapper (now know as ‘The Cyber-Dog system‘) in it’s intended environment for the first time. Mount Hawke consists of 20,000 square feet of ramps of all shapes and sizes, an…
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Little J at the Book and Print Sandbox
Pictures from the Book and Print Sandbox workshop in Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio – a meeting of 8 projects commissioned by React, of which Little J is one. This was an opportunity to get together with the other people involved in the wider project, and try out each other’s prototypes.
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Tracking/Projection mapping on the wildlife
Some Kinect tracking & projection mapping being tested by a passing animal lifeform. A quick prototype for an exciting upcoming project – thanks to Gabor Papp‘s excellent freenect module for Fluxus it was pretty simple to plug together…
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Building pyramids with code composition
The Al Jazari 2 bots currently have six basic actions – move forward/backwards, turn 90 degrees left or right, pick up the block underneath them or drop the block to the space they are currently sitting on. Given these instructions, how do we procedurally build pyramids (of any given size) like this in their minecraft-esque…
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Little J
Little J is a research project to explore citizen journalism, and find ways to use technology to connect journalists working on local news (an industry currently under threat) with the public, grouped under the term “hyperlocal news”. This is a project between REACT (Research & Enterprise in Arts & Creative Technology) and Behaviour (a psychological…
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algoravin in the UK
A short trip around the UK for slub over the last couple of days, a livecoding gig in London at Bartlett Nexus in UCL at an event concerning architecture, games and hand made technology. A full video of the event (with us at the end) is here. Also collected along the way, a photo of…
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DORIS on the high seas
Yesterday was the first test of the full DORIS marine mapping system I’m developing with Amber Teacher and David Hodgson at Exeter University. We went out on a fishing boat from Mylor harbour for a 5 hour trip along the Cornish coast. It’s a quiet season for lobsters at the moment, so this was an…
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Al Jazari 2 re-arranger robot program
Onboard a robot, who is following a sequence of instructions (in the spirit of the original Al Jazari), to pick up, carry and drops blocks in order to re-organise it’s environment. Halfway through we switch to a robot which is running code that makes it player controllable, so we can look around. This is all…