Habbyshaw

Street Level Interaction

ryan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:24:57 +0000

All it took was 8000 Stickers, a few thousand lines of code.
Sounds simple right! Thanks to Bob Shane at Vinyl Countdown in Allston Ma. for his expertise in graphic installation we put the stickers up in 2 days in Boston and 3 days in Philly. As for the Interactive application that’s another story. Todd Vanderlin, Memo Akten and Myself teamed up to create a dynamic plant that feeds off user interaction and presence.

We developed custom software using Openframeworks (openframeworks.cc), an open source development environment for C++. The software is displayed on an HD (1080 x 1920) vertical LCD screen, enclosed in a custom fabricated bamboo frame. As a user stands in front of the display a camera captures them and the software analyzes the movement in each frame of the video. In realtime, the user’s movement is translated in to a wind force. This force and the accompanying physics system animates and brings the environment to life. As the user sways and moves, the plants moves with them. The interaction becomes a tango between the user and the plants. we are isolating the upward motion and computing that into plant growth to encourage growth. The more someone moves up the more the plants will grow. The application has two modes: day and night. At night the sky fades to a black gradient and stars twinkle in the background. When the sun rises the environment transitions back into a sunny day.
The application also has some pretty cool analysis software that captures data from the locations.

If your in Boston (1 Financial Center) or Philly (7th and Market) you should swing by the banks to check them out.

More photos here

This was fun

ryan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:06:27 +0000

Well its the last day and were about to break down the lab. It was so much fun spending the last 2 weeks with this group. I have a much better understanding of true “teamwork”. Thank you everyone for teaching me so much. I hope we can do this again.

A Few Projects

ryan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:26:34 +0000

The Projects were tuns of fun. Everyone got to be part of a few of them. Each project was based on 5 words that were submitted by visitors to the lab. There were over 400 submissions. Here are a few videos of finished projects that were shown in the gallery during the festival.

These are just a few you can see all of themhere.

It’s Alive

ryan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:10:46 +0000

Once the lab was finished we moved in just hours before the start of the festival. Most of us were up around the clock the night before the festival making sure everything worked correctly and looked the best it could.

The first floor is a gallery space.

The second floor is a work space where project are being made to fill the gallery.

It wasnt all Code

ryan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:57:59 +0000

The lab was exactly like the rendering. 3 floors inside the Bruknerhas

I helped Taeyoon and Tina paint the lab today.we taped off shapes and started painting. Taeyoon and Tina are a great team. They both have a clear vision of what they want the lab to look like. Cant wait to see it. You can check out Taeyoons work here. I’d link to Tina but I don’t have a link. let me know if anyone has one.

Life before the lab

ryan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:30:21 +0000

We spent a few days before the festival in the Bruknerhas Cafe preparing to move in. While the carpenters put the finishing touches on the lab we were painting, sewing, soldering, designing, coding, documenting, and collecting things to hack later in the week.

Linz is beautiful.

ryan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:16:31 +0000

The oF Lab

ryan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:54:09 +0000

Ars Electronica is gunna to be awesome. Can’t wait to meet the OF team.

This year, at Ars Electronica (sept 4 - 9) we are planning to make something pretty unique to represent openframeworks - OF LAB!

Essentially, it’s a laboratory space where a group of us will make artwork live during the course of the festival. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make stuff, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The work that we do will come directly out suggestions from the festival audience members — and hopefully, over the 5 days, we’ll create a kind of good feedback loop between getting suggestions, making projects and exhibiting the results.

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Ars Electronica

ryan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:57:33 +0000

Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Linz Thu 4 - Tue 9 September 2008

Ars Electronica invites artists, network nomads, theoreticians, technologists and legal scholars from all over the world to convene in Linz September 4-9, 2008. Their artistic and scholarly investigations in the form of symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions will transcend the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and pervade the entire city.

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Boston Moped Massacure

ryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:33:18 +0000

This was a great time. We meet in cambridge at noon and road till 10:00. We road all the way to concord with a few stop: BC, Waldon Pond, and a few other really nice places in Concord. I meet a tun of really nice people. I hope to do it again before it gets too cold.