Processing.org evolution

Its been a while since I have used processing for any of my projects so today I took some time to have a good look at some of the new libraries available for the framework. I was amazed at far processing has come, there are now libraries for everything from sound to reading the accelerometer built into a Mac book. I was very pleased to see that box2D has been wrapped to integrate simply into processing as this is a very powerful 2D physics engine. Here is the link to the libraries section of the processing site for anybody that is interested.

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Playful objects

project by Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, January 2010
University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

This project was built using Arduin and processing.org. The project has a beautifully unique and playful take on sound manipulation. I especially love the bucket but you will have to watch it to know what i mean!

Johnny Lee

I came across this Researcher whilst studying for my degree unfortunately for a while i forgot his name and could not find him online (found him again now.) I was really impressed with his work in manipulating data from the Wii remote and taking the basic principles of how the Wii-mote works and flipping them, twisting them and basically manipulating them to become much more creative and useful.

Johnny Chung Lee – Link

Augmented Reality example

Above is one of my Favorite examples I have seen so far of augmented reality. It was coded by Saqoosha who I am very thankful to as he was one of my main sources of information and documentation for the FLARToolkit.

The last two days I have spent bashing about with the FLARToolkit for AS3. Its very addictive and there are some very good example online. In the end I produced some working examples by mixing the examples given by Mikko Haapoja and saqoosha.net into one AS3 file. I can’t wait to see where these experiments will take me and i hopefully post them up here soon.