Who knew people would spend over 10 hours painting on Richmond City Hall if given the chance. Below you can see a half scale test of the screen by graffiti artist Jeff Jerevan and the fill size window being used by Bill Ede.

Graffiti Wall from Alex Beim on Vimeo.

Graffiti Wall Final from Alex Beim on Vimeo.

Creating 3D objects in processing is ridiculously easy. Building off the Bird sample code I got textured flapping wings working in under an 1hr. Using the handy OBJ Loader library by Tetsuya Saito and Matt Ditton I was able to bring in a rough body done by Keiko Furukawa without to many problems (still having some texture issues though). Now its really about getting the motion right.

I can’t seem to get an applet to work in WP so here is the link: 3D Butterflies

Inspired by Jonny Lee’s head tracking video, I decided to see what it would take to get it working in flash. 4 hours later I got a dirty implementation working with Wiiflash. I haven’t tested this for accuracy but it works well enough to mess about with. Tyler Egeto, one of my students in Digital Design, has done a Papervision demo using the new functionality which should be available next week. Download the modified class file: IR.as

Here is a quick time-lapse video showing a large DI multi-touch window test. This screen is about 1m square. Drafting mylar is being used for the projection surface.

DI Multi-touch Window Test from Brett Forsyth on Vimeo.

Below you will find code that will allow you to control a Color Kinetics iColor Flex SL LED string via UDP. Why should you care? Well this will allow control of the string directly from your computer via ethernet. If you can’t see the power in that then maybe your inner nerd isn’t shining through.
Here is a video showing it in action.