Tag Archives: Computer graphics

25 September 1
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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

Under - Art, Media, Motion Graphics, Photography, Technology, Typography

Very innovative use of iPad by Dentsu and BERG in this iPad light painting video ‘Making Future Magic’:

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

Coloring the ‘Migrant Mother’

Under - Art, Design, My Musings, Photography

There were three things (among several) that I really wanted to do for some time:

Colorize a black and white photo (that I’ve never done before)
Give Recolored a try and
Start using my Wacom A5 tablet that I bought a year ago for sketching and never got the time to actually use it

So, having combined all of these into one task, I picked up the iconic photograph of Migrant Mother for this, taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 during the Great American Depression, which I also mentioned few days back.

The thing that I wanted to avoid in this exercise is to have that artificial look-n-feel that we normally get to see when a black and white photograph is converted into color. Also, rather than just adding colors to make this photograph look like a real color-photo, my objective would be to capture the essence of this photo in colors and retain it. This can be done by using a color palette that is not overpowering and simply complement the original image.

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19 April 3
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Here comes (Digital) Circlism!

Under - Art, Illustration

Bob Marley - Digital Circlism by Ben Hein

A modern artistic expression or a mix of Pop Art and Pointillism? Ben Hein developing this technique in Photoshop by understanding the dynamic movement of facial contours.

22 February 2
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Flyfire

Under - Design, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Technology

Flyfire, Raster Image Display – Mona Lisa

Imagine transforming any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment! This is what exactly SENSEable City Laboratory and ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) aiming at MIT.

From the project website:

In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets out to explore the capabilities of this display system by using a large number of self-organizing micro helicopters. Each helicopter contains small LEDs and acts as a smart pixel. Through precisely controlled movements, the helicopters perform elaborate and synchronized motions and form an elastic display surface for any desired scenario.

With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling technology from the ARES Lab, the motion of the pixels is adaptable in real time. The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience.

Visit Flyfire project website to learn more about it.

Ares, ARES Lab, Computer graphics, Computer science, Digital geometry, Embedded Systems Laboratory, Flyfire, Image processing, Light-emitting diodes, MIT, Mona Lisa, Physics, Pixel, precise controlling technology, Raster graphics, real time, SENSEable City Laboratory, Technology/Internet

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Going West

Under - Inspiration, Media, Motion Graphics

With well over 500,000 hits on YouTube this ad truly capturing imaginations. The video is visualization of an excerpt from the novel Going West by Maurice Gee. This excellent piece is produced by Colenso BBDO and animated by Line Andersen for the New Zealand Book Council whose mission is to inspire and promote reading in New Zealand.

Bringing Books and People Together
Like no other human activity reading opens up our imagination. It enables us to understand those around us. It allows us to project the future and reach back into the past. Reading can entertain, challenge and educate. We believe that reading can transform people’s lives.