Atomizing Thom’s virtual copy

As a follow-up to the previous post about remixing the point data of Radiohead’s “House of Cards”, here’s an application which enables you to shoot, melt and reemerge Thom’s head in realtime and stereo. We call it “atomizing Thom”.

Here’s a picture of the various states …

Converting Radiohead’s HOUSE OF CARDS laser data to X3D

An updated and renamed version of the script can now be found on GoogleCode:

http://code.google.com/p/hoc-csv2x3d/

Here’s a little Python script for converting Radiohead’s 3D laser data into an X3D file. The script creates an animated X3D version of the video data, which can …

Fraunhofer IGD Multi-Touch Table

Two weeks ago a was given a demo of the new Fraunhofer IGD multi-touch table. Building these tables seems to be very popular these days and there are several DIY projects out on the web. I have thought about starting to build one for myself but soon got distracted by …

Using reacTIVision in the InstantPlayer X3D browser

This article describes how to use the reacTIVision tracking framework in combination with the InstantPlayer X3D browser. It provides a solution based on reacTIVisions MIDI output, representing each fiducial by a node in the X3D scenegraph. The Fiducial X3D prototype node offers fields for position, angle and state of a …

Experiments on Last.FM in X3D

I am a big fan of Last.fm and always wanted to play with their data feeds available at the Audioscrobbler WebService API. So I recently started to visualize some of the data in X3D. Currently there’s no defined goal for these experiments, I’m just trying to overcome …

Making an X3D slider proto

This article describes how to make an X3D slider proto that outputs float values and can be parameterized in color and value range.

It is based on the article Making an X3D slider which ended with a scene containing two nodes for the slider geometry and one Script node doing …

Making an X3D slider

This article describes how to implement an X3D slider using the instantReality framework.

The final slider can be used horizontally or vertically, outputs float values and can be parameterized in value range and color. This slider example does not contain a label or a textual representation of the current value …

instantplayer beta 1 released

The beta1 of my favourite X3D browser instantplayer was just released at www.instantreality.org.

The new release finally includes Linux packages for SuSE, Ubuntu and others. I succesfully used the SuSE rpm and installed it on a Gentoo system. For more details see the forum post.