Author Archives: Rodney Berry

About Rodney Berry

An artist, musician and technologist working with computers and augmented reality for creative expression.

Most of my bloggish activity will be on Google+ from now on…

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Rodney Berry

I’m finding google plus more practical for just popping in little articles and sharing interesting links so this blog will probably freeze until circumstances change. Here’s the link to the google+ page: https://plus.google.com/110965621888529701713/posts there’s a summary without pictures in the … Continue reading →

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Kinect colored smoke test

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Rodney Berry

https://vimeo.com/42034276

I’m messing with Kinect in TouchDesigner. I promise a 2 -player version tomorrow. Just wasn’t anyone still awake to share with 🙂

The right hand’s Z location in world space controls the size of the colour patch but the x y location is tracked in screen space so it stays consistent along the z axis (otherwise it would be in real-world distance vertically and horizontally which would change in terms of screen locations.)

The left hand moves up and down to change the hue; left and right to control value; forward and back to control saturation of the colour.It also works with two people.

At the moment, the left hand u and v locations are tracked relative to the screen but it would make more sense to have them relative to each player’s torso then the colour changes would be consistent for a gesture no matter where each player is at the time.

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Oobject features a gallery of Dieter Rams designs for Braun. I gather Apple product design was partly inspired by this guy.

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Rodney Berry

Oobject features a gallery of Dieter Rams designs for Braun. I gather Apple product design was partly inspired by this guy. (although the link is broken at this particular moment) so here’s a video of Dieter in action…

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“Announcing the 2012 Arts/Science Residency program at the National University of Singapore

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Rodney Berry

“Announcing the 2012 Arts/Science Residency program at the National University of Singapore. Selected artists will be invited to spend 1 month living on the NUS campus, engaging with students and the local arts community as they conduct projects exploring and … Continue reading →

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Reality is Plenty – Kevin Slavin critiques augmented reality as it is currently served up

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Rodney Berry
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The last captive Thylacine died yesterday afternoon, 75 years ago.

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Rodney Berry

I’m not buying the ‘thylacine’ footage at the beginning but the archival stuff is fascinating and sad. The only remotely good news is that, during an inventory of specimens, The Australian Museum found that they had several foetuses preserved in … Continue reading →

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Guardian article about climate change and Australia’s deeply compromised journalists… “… the editor-in-chief of the Australian, Chris Mi

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Rodney Berry

Guardian article about climate change and Australia’s deeply compromised journalists… “Australia’s climate scientists expose shock-jock distortion tactics” “… the editor-in-chief of the Australian, Chris Mitchell, received the “JN Pierce award for media excellence for leading the newspaper’s coverage of climate … Continue reading →

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3D models from photographs with Autodesk Photofly

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Rodney Berry

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/ Still in ‘technology preview’ form but that means you can try it out for free. 50-60 photographs is usually enough to make a pretty good model of a 3D object, and interior or a building.

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Music Gets Physical in Biorhythm Interactive Exhibit | Underwire | Wired.com

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Rodney Berry

Music Gets Physical in Biorhythm Interactive Exhibit | Underwire | Wired.com.

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Unauthorised pavillions at the Venice Biennale, including selling the Greek pavillion to the IMF. :)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Rodney Berry

Anon Stateless Immigrants (ASI) Manifest.AR Venice Biennial 2011 AR Intervention « Manifest.AR

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