So I was hoping to give you fulsome looks at the technologies I’m seeing but LA Conference Time is warp speed. Here are some technologies to check out. I vouch for nothing, this is your amusement park visit for the day — grab yourself a few rides.
People scans (some motion-capture systems are designed to track only human hotspots and won’t work yet on, say, cows.)
- • 3dMD.com I’ll have 3D scans of me to share. They also do motion capture (4D)
- • Faceware (a 3D and 4D scan)
- • 3DDynamics got a a scan of me, knees to tiptop (3D)
- • PHASESPACE (a 3D and 4D scan) I’ll have 3d scans of my face to share.
- • gigamacro.com macro-scans a coin, a leaf, a butterfly in tiny bites then reconstructs them for an image you can zoom into for details.
- • artscans studio speciality scanning and printing for flat artwork and digital artwork. quality looks good, yet another offshoot of Nash Editions {think Crosby, Stills and Nash].
- • I say yet another because the Boston area has one, Singer Editions. I’ve long admired the quality of their work and have enjoyed working with them in the past. (This for my East Coast readers.)
- • mcor technologies the Matrix300 printer (uses paper)
- • MakerBot I am waiting for my 3d print to be done as I write (uses the same plastic as Legos)
- • diylilcnc.org open source. hopeffully I’ll pick up a 3d print tomorrow. (Uses subtractive methods to carve out a mold, casts a ceramic mixture in the mold)
- • ShaderPrinter haven’t
- seen samples yet but an intriguing channel for artists.
- • Courtney Starrett jewelry
- • Phil Renato jewelry
- • School of Arts, Media + Engineering, Herberger Institute, Arizona State University electronic textiles
- • symbiosiso
- • Touche at Disney
- • Telesar V, also here
- • PossessedHand I confess my hand has been possessed
- • XSEDE I haven’t investigated yet but this looks to be a powerful resource, funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF).
XSEDE is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. People around the world use these resources and services — things like supercomputers, collections of data and new tools — to improve our planet.
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This list is incomplete but gives you a taste of what I’m tasting here. If you have any interest in combining your artform with new technologies then let something here lead you in a new direction.
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look further:
- • EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre) highly praised by a SIGGRAPH participant who had been there.
- • NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression); and also here