Sunday, June 19, 2011
Alexander Calder - Hanging interaction
Colourful, exploratory, mobile, low-tech, installations-sculptures disclosing a narrative in time and space.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Apollo and Daphne-interactive sculpture
Apollo and Daphne, by Baroque Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
An interactive low-tech installation.
The composition invites the viewer to move around the sculpture, to be told the story of the transformation of Daphne into a bay laurel tree, through a spacial-temporal narrative sequence.
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os&feature=related
An interactive low-tech installation.
The composition invites the viewer to move around the sculpture, to be told the story of the transformation of Daphne into a bay laurel tree, through a spacial-temporal narrative sequence.
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os&feature=related
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines
''The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines. This the first in a three-book series on using the LEGO Technic building sets to learn about and create mechanisms and machines.''
[book]
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tangible interfaces, paper and more.
Index of Tangible Interfaces and Graspable Interfaces [from: here]
Paper++ "... research has shown that the persistence of paper is not merely a result of outdated work practices, rather, paper has 'affordances' which support collaboration and interaction in ways that the most advanced digital technologies cannot rival. In Paper++ we aim to exploit these properties whilst enriching paper with capabilities that can make it an effective resource for interacting with electronic media." [from: here]
Things that Hover: Interaction with Tiny Battery-less Robots on Desktop [from: article]
Wendy E. Mackay has many papers in this area:
- Exploring sustainable design with reusable paper [here]
- Musink: composing music through augmented drawing [here]
Paper++ "... research has shown that the persistence of paper is not merely a result of outdated work practices, rather, paper has 'affordances' which support collaboration and interaction in ways that the most advanced digital technologies cannot rival. In Paper++ we aim to exploit these properties whilst enriching paper with capabilities that can make it an effective resource for interacting with electronic media." [from: here]
Things that Hover: Interaction with Tiny Battery-less Robots on Desktop [from: article]
Wendy E. Mackay has many papers in this area:
- Exploring sustainable design with reusable paper [here]
- Musink: composing music through augmented drawing [here]
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Origami, math and computation
History of Curved Origami Sculpture
[from: here]
Curved folding
[from: here]
"It’s a very simple pattern, using a series of straight and curved folds. Very neat."
[from: here]
Curved folds are use in packaging:
[source]
And something about the math angle here: Mathematics of paper folding
Artistic origami: here.
Other, non-origami, ways to build 3D objects with paper:
- ichinogami (here)
- paper automata (here)
[from: here]
Curved folding
[from: here]
"It’s a very simple pattern, using a series of straight and curved folds. Very neat."
[from: here]
Curved folds are use in packaging:
[source]
And something about the math angle here: Mathematics of paper folding
Artistic origami: here.
Other, non-origami, ways to build 3D objects with paper:
- ichinogami (here)
- paper automata (here)
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