One of the beautiful things happening in the last decade of technological development, in my eyes, has been the triumph of LED illuminants. I recall the model railroad when I was young: there was a police car with small blue lamps on top. I loved them, but had to admit, they were some kind of …
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Evaluating/Choosing media: Slack
Media usually is not something good nore bad. A piece of Software for example, is just a tool. But while nobody uses a Hammer for putting a screw in a wall (provided there’s a better suited tool around), with media – let’s stick to the software example for now – it is much more difficult …
About Media
Media is ubiquitous – omnipresent as well as touching the most different parts of our daily life. People dealing with me tend to get the impression I do not like modern media or technology. This is dead wrong. I love technology, I work with it every day. I work with it to earn my money …
Just swipe it
This does not start as a bad example! but rather as a comparison of different concepts of operating a device: When I am with my camera (which is a very analogue one) I have a certain amount of buttons and switches and I know each one. When I am with the D3 or D4 of …
I want to see that other fish again!
This is a rather common bad example! and you probably all had an experience like this: Let’s say you are in the Zoo – or in the new burger restaurant nearby. On the screen you just got a glimpse of the piece of information you are looking after (this interesting worm-like fish or the ingredients …
Planning a project technology – The basic questions
When planning a project, there is some basic questions we should always ask first, when it comes to using technology. This should very early in planning. Of course depending on the project, the questions might vary a bit. But in general it is the same approach. Here’s one possible list: Why? What would an alternative …
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Using NetBeans with openFrameworks on Ubuntu – Part II: setting things up
For introduction see first Part. This Part is about actually setting up an openFrameworks project with NetBeans. A new Project Choose “New project” from “File” Menu. In the Popup window choose “C++ Project with Existing Sources” Select the Folder of your openFrameworks App. Choose “Custom” as configuration mode. Note: the actions/settings can differ slightly depending on …
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Using NetBeans with openFrameworks on Ubuntu – Part I
Using openFrameworks has been a very different experience for me, depending on which platform I was developing. Xcode after one long installation process was working nicely, sure. Only that sometimes I did not understand some settings that I had to do. More than one time internet told me how to solve a problem while I …
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Wandering sound – Part II: Theory of programming
For description of the project and approach see first Part. This Part is about the theory and maths behind the programming of the wandering sound installation. Focusing on one channel We have two channels to switch and pass on to the appropriate speakers. In the following we consider them two independent systems. So we are going to change …
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Using Kinect for real-time mapping – Part III: Create a real-time mask from depth image: Processing
In the previous chapter we created a real-time mask image by using a kinect sensor and proessing. Now we use this image to map a video. When placing your kinect and video projector so that they are in sync we will then be able to project only on people and objects and spare the background …