The Floating Tilting Game Platform is a lot of fun.  It's also very good exercise.  In the only time we took video, Adam managed to quickly score one against me:

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Kate painted the game balls and made them look awesome:


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Kate helped me build the floating tilty game board for NotEphemerisle today.  We learned that routers and hole saws are awesome.


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I'm not used to the idea of repeatedly harassing people who don't owe me money to pay me money.
Unfortunately, using Kickstarter in a closed group of Ephemerisle attendees means doing exactly that. :-)

In any case, I'm building this awesome giant tilting game platform that you should check out. 
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Video of my test:  Thanks for the help, Steve!

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If there was a *book* about a blue hedgehog that spins himself into a featureless orb as he dashes through an island filled with strange and highly distinct biomes, each meticulously constructed to both let him both revel in the pleasure of moving as fast as possible yet threaten him with constant (but temporary and thus perhaps meaningless) death ( Read more... )

I wrote some software to merge multiple 3D video streams captured by the Kinect into a single 3D space. Objects from each video stream are superimposed as if they occupy the same physical space, with nearby objects from one video occluding more distant ones from another. Sometimes objects overlap, creating interesting mutant forms.

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I made some improvements to my program from yesterday.  Now I can control how multiple RGB/Depth images are merged together to create a virtual 3D sculpture I can walk through.  This stuff is seriously fun.

 

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I believe that consumer-level 3D cameras will have a huge impact on a variety of industries and will lead to the creation of many types of new products.  I've started to play around with the Kinect using the OpenKinect hack & open source codebase.

For my first project I created a 3D sculpture tool.  In the video, parts of the sculpted image ( Read more... )

The sort of highly interactive art you see at Burning Man appears to be making inroads into the mainstream conservative art world.

The New York Metropolitan Museum just finished displaying a piece of art that consisted of an evolving organic bamboo structure that viewers could climb through.  It's extremely immersive and in constant flux - the ( Read more... )

Now that I have a new car, I want to make it uniquely mine.  I've been playing around with various fractal designs for vinyl decals that I can apply to the side.

Here's one concept (photoshopped):



Today I did a small test piece using some scrap vinyl lying around Techshop.  The scrap vinyl was gold, and despite not being a fan of the color gold in ( Read more... )