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Sonic Wire Sculptor [iPad, oF] - Soon on the iPad! [Video] The team behind Sonic Wire Sculptor have just provided us with details about their new version of sws for the iPad. The video below shows Shantell Martin playing with the before unseen beta version of Sonic Wire Sculptor. Great news is that the new version comes with custom sample loading, here Shantell is using some from looperman.com. The team plans to submit the iPad version for approval next tuesday, but as these things go, theres no way to be totally sure (Zach). The sws development team is led by Zach Gage and Amit Pitaru. Other contributors include Zach Lieberman and James Paterson. Sonic Wire Sculptor about:Sonic Wire Sculptor is based on a musical instrument by Amit Pitaru which has been shown in museums and galleries world wide. Previously: Sonic Wire [iPhone, Sound] Related. McSweeney’s [iPhone, iPad] - Version 2 now available with Dynamic installation by Rafaël Rozendaal (@McSweeneysApp)

Publishing house McSweeney’s (wiki) has just released the new version of their iPhone/iPad app bringing you even closer to the diverse selection of stories, short films, interviews, comics and readings available daily, exclusively for the iOS platform. Artists and writers include Spike Jonze, Chris Ware, Judd Apatow, Jonathan Ames, Maurice Sendak, Miranda July, James Franco, Nicholson Baker, Wells Tower, Catherine Keener, Weird Al Yankovic and in the latest release, ‘Dynamic installation’ by Rafaël Rozendaal which was adapted especially for the McSweeney’s app. In our continuing efforts to extend a tentacle into every cranny of human experience, we proudly present the Small Chair, a weekly selection from all branches of the McSweeney’s family.

One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly, the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a short film from a future Wholphin. Occasionally, it might be a song, an art portfolio, who knows. 100 Demos @mozlabs – Gallery and Voting Open Now! #javascript #anigif. Earlier this week Mozilla Labs silently opened the voting process for the 100 demo submissions. There is a wide range of entries ranging from animated gifs to javascript demos and now it’s up to you to decide on the winners.

Link: The gallery with all the submissions is here You’ll need to create yourself an account and vote for 5 randomly selected demos or GIFs. The community votes will weight 50% of the decisions, another 50% will come from the judges. Deadline is Sunday, the 28th of August. Here are some of my favorites – or click on images to open in new window: Laboratories are where science and creativity meet to develop, research, and explore new ideas. Aesthetics + computation group :: mit media laboratory. OpenFrameworks. OpenFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.

The toolkit is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries, including: OpenGL, GLEW, GLUT, libtess2 and cairo for graphicsrtAudio, PortAudio, OpenAL and Kiss FFT or FMOD for audio input, output and analysisFreeType for fontsFreeImage for image saving and loadingQuicktime, GStreamer and videoInput for video playback and grabbingPoco for a variety of utilitiesOpenCV for computer visionAssimp for 3D model loading The code is written to be massively cross-compatible.

Right now we support five operating systems (Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android) and four IDEs (XCode, Code::Blocks, and Visual Studio and Eclipse). The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. openFrameworks is distributed under the MIT License. Contributors and supporters And previously: Eyebeam Ford Foundation Collaborative. Tools. Processing Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work.

Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production. OpenFrameworks Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. Cinder Cinder provides a powerful, intuitive toolbox for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry. Vvvv vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. MaxMSP/Jitter.