michel8

Interactive 3D video installation with red-cyan anaglyph glasses and hand-tracking navigation

The installation "Seeking Inwardly" gives an explorative insight into an  inner world cosmos entrapped in itself, similar to the hollow earth  theory. Seeking Inwardly is a journey into a strange world created by  the artist, which is comparable to the subconsciousness or hidden inner  being of every human being, locate to the human aspect in a novel  transformed virtual contexts. 
From the centre to the outer crust,  the recipient navigates and explores spaces with virtual objects,  symbols and abstract formations, each of which is surrounded by  associating sounds scapes, which the artist himself experienced. Michel  Winterberg works with specially created 3D scans of personal objects and  body parts of himself. These scans contain imperfect artifacts which  draws attention to the narrow line between perfectionism and  imperfections between human and technology.

Interactive 3D video installation with red-cyan anaglyph glasses and hand-tracking navigation
The installation "Seeking Inwardly" gives an 

seeking-inwardly

Seeking Inwardly

greg beller

To create this photon trip, I needed some effects that brings the sensation of the speed. To achieve it, I created a "spiral synthesizer" the parameters of which are controlled by a max-MSP program using a kinect. Every "star" composing Yohkoh has been generated body motion. The hands control the aphelia, the center and the speed of each spiral but also some timbre parameters. So the interactive part of the composition is inside the making of the piece. The IRCAM spat externals have been helping a lot to simulate the doppler effect that brings the sensation of speed. No need to make wars with stars...

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Yohkoh

Nico Arnáez

In this project, Max is in charge of triggering sounds on speakers, according to the persons' position on the room. It receives data from a Kinect camera that through Processing informs the patch about three dimensional person's movements. 

Also it manages the speaker's loudness to have a controlled feedback that change according to how close a person is from a bowl.

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Composición colectiva III: Campanas de cocina

Andrew Spitz

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loci – 3D Printed Sculptures of Your Flights

furrii

Visuals and sound are completely generated live using MaxMspJitter and a Kinect.

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SAOL : Interactive Dance Performance

touk

The installation was created using only Max.

It was used with camera to grab the scene, working on the movement of body for generating extrusion on picture in a 3D scene and projected to the wall

painting-wall

Installation > "Painting Wall"

eliott paris

The CICM is pleased to announce this new release of the HOA Library.

The HOA library allows musicians and composers to synthesize, transform and render sound fields (in 2d and 3d) in a creative and artistic way. It aims facilitating the understanding and the appropriation of key concepts of Ambisonics. It offers original processings like diffuse sound field synthesis, perspective distortion or spatial filtering and graphical user interfaces. The library is available for Pure Data and Max.

This new release includes some updates and new features like new binaural rendering, new tutorials, exchanger for Ambisonics data format, optimizations, etc.

Authors : Pierre Guillot, Eliott Paris, Julien Colafrancesco.

The HOA library is free, open-source and made available by the CICM, the centre of research on musical composition and computer science of the University Paris 8.
The project has been developed as a part of the LABEX Arts H2H at the MSH Paris-Nord and the plate-forme Arts-Sciences-Technologies.

This library is under the terms of the GNU Public License.
If you want to avoid the restrictions of the GPL and use HoaLibrary for a closed-source product, please contact us.

hoalibrary-v2-2

HoaLibrary v2.2

MRTN

Every 400 milliseconds a new human being born, at the same rate a new projected “human” appears in the space, filling it dramatically fast. As the space is restricted, humans start to hit each other trying to find their own space. When the door near by the projection is open, it start to attract humans, sucking them off and letting the disappear. This loss generate more room of those who are still in the space.

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Andrew Pask

Amanda Ghassaei is a software engineer and an educator.

As a kid I was always into crafting and making things out of paper and cardboard, and those interests eventually took a more computational turn as I got older.  My first introduction to Max, Arduino, and electronics was in a final project I made for a physics class; I built an infrared-sensing multitouch screen that communicates with Max, which I've just recently posted on Instructables.  I was pretty much addicted from then on; I started writing patches to run on my touchscreen and continued exploring diy electronics/audio/programming/design.  More recently I've been doing a lot computational design and fabrication with CNC routers, laser cutters, and 3D printers.

How do you know when something you are working on is finished?

To be honest, I find myself revisiting old projects all the time, so in my mind they're never really finished…  That being said, I think one of my criteria for putting something down for a long time is that I've got all the documentation online.  That way a project can still provide practical value to someone or maybe even continue to be developed without me, it makes the "end" of the project feel a little less final.

When do you like to use chance or random processes? 

I love using random processes in my work, I think it helps give digital art and media more of an organic aesthetic quality. More recently I've been learning about genetic algorithms, hill climbing, and other strategies for optimizing systems or exploring a variety of potential solutions to a problem; many of these optimization processes are driven by randomness as well.  Some of the work in this field done by Karl Sims is particularly inspiring to me.  One day I'd love to apply something like this to Max, I have this idea floating around in my head about writing a program that generates .maxpat files using a genetic algorithm, where user input could evaluate a patch for "fitness" and reorganize Max components to optimize some awesome synth output.

What’s something that you would like to be able to do with technology in your work but you can’t at the moment?

As I've gotten farther into web development, I've started to look at the web as a platform for my creative projects because of its potential to make software tools as easily accessible as possible.  I love building interactive applications and seeing other people use them, but requiring Processing, Python, or Max Runtime to execute these apps limits the amount of people who will actually bother to try.  I'd love to create 3D design tools for the web using JavaScript (some of the stuff nervous system is doing is really cool), but currently it seems like it's difficult to create something reasonably complex without doing a ton of legwork.  There are some interesting tools out there to help (I've messed around with OpenJSCAD a bit), but I'm still struggling to find something that has exactly what I need.

I primarily studied science - physics, chemistry, math - in college, so I'm always thinking about ways to incorporate the ideas I loved about those classes into my projects.  The Fourier Theorum has been especially compelling to me: an infinite number of sines waves can be combined to form any sound in the universe.  Trigonometry, sinusoidal oscillators, analog electronics and mechanisms… I really love the sinusoidal sculptures made by Reuben Margolin, this one looks like it's straight out of a quantum mechanics class.

On the design side, digital fabrication (with 3D printers, laser cutters, etc) has completely transformed the way I think about making everything; I'm especially inspired by the potential of computational design paired with CNC fabrication to rapidly bring complex ideas into reality.  Organic geometries and algorithms, construction processes found in nature, and self assembly are topics I'd like to explore more in the future.

What is the most difficult obstacle you need to overcome in order to do your thing?

Recently my work has been focused primarily on design and digital fabrication, so I've been hitting many of the obstacles in that field.  Most notably, we've got these amazing precision machines that have the potential to cut and print incredible geometries, but there's a huge bottleneck in our ability to get large files into the machines and perform the tool path planning needed to run them.  I've been doing a lot of generative 3D modeling - writing programs that create very complex 3D models - but often when I try to send my designs into a machine for fabrication, the software chokes and crashes.  This was a huge obstacle in my 3D printed record project because of the enormous detail in the files.

Amanda Ghassaei is a software engineer and an educator with a background in physics, chemistry, math.

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Mini Interview: Amanda Ghassaei

Rob Ramirez

Patch along with Jitter Developer Rob Ramirez as he works with the Jitter Physics system. In this multi-part series, Rob will go from creation of a physics world and rigid bodies to using constraints and building and simulating complex structures. This first video shows how to create a physics world in Max and a couple of ways to interact with the simulation.

The first video in the Physics Patchalong series takes you through creating a falling object and interacting with it in a couple different ways.  Follow along as Rob Ramirez goes through the creation of a fully functional physics simulation.
Part 2: http://youtu.be/sRhQxfEvOIQ
Part 3: http://youtu.be/bArs9nnvGCw

Get more information on Jitter Physics: http://cycling74.com/physics/

jit.phys Patch-along, Part 1

Patch along with Rob Ramirez and discover the Jitter Physics system.

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