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Projector and Camera, A Little Closer: New, Magical Mapping Tools, 3D Scanning, and More. Visionary 3D scanning, computer vision, and digital media guru Kyle McDonald is back again with more tools that break down the boundary between the computer and the world.

Kyle tells us he spent a great part of the fall in residence at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Japan. He worked with experimental projector/camera rigs — and now we get to enjoy some fruits of those labors. The software collection is free and open source (MIT License), built for OpenFrameworks, and already includes some documentation. (The ideal is contributing back to the core of OF, adding to this artist-savvy C++ coding tool.) Mapamok A new experimental projection mapping tool called Mapamok is the major highlight for me. Automatic mapping and calibration? The tool is completely free, as part of the ProCamKit. Video, at top, is described thusly: But there’s more to this kit, cool: 3D Scanning Meets Projection Here’s what’s happening now.

Shadowplay. Melding the Physical with Screens: Prototyping Interfaces, in Videos [vvvv, Book] Prototyping Interfaces – Interaktives Skizzieren mit vvvv from Prototyping Interfaces on Vimeo.

With knobs and motors, wheels and cameras and bits of Play-Doh, a series of elegant interactive experiments provides physical controls to screen interfaces. Prototyping Interfaces, the book, can show you how, all with loads of pictures and examples in free-as-in-beer (for non-commercial use) vvvv. (Preferred pronunciation is “V-4,” generally, in English or German.) The book is in German, and the software is Windows-only, but the videos (and the examples in the book, for that matter) are illustrated visually.

For German speakers, full details on the book below. Speaking of Germany and the meeting point of physicality and virtual digitality, I’m speaking at a conference in Hamburg Saturday on the topic:Between Thought and Object: Music and the Material Post-Digitalität und Film The book (English description at bottom, though for now there’s only the German edition – hello, publishers/translators!) Simple DIY 3D Scanning: Projector + Camera + Processing. DIY 3D Scanner from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.

Kyle McDonald sends us a hacked-together 3D scanner. I love that it’s slightly inaccurate in aesthetically-pleasing ways, I love that it’s something you can put together using stuff you already have at the ready, and I love that it’s powered by Processing. The applications could range from 3D models to motion graphics and animation to assistance in mapping projections to 3D objects. Kyle writes: I put together a 3D scanner yesterday that uses a camera, projector, and Processing. From the video description: The first 18 frames show the images used for generating the 3D model. Now, we of course wanted to see some source code, and Kyle was nice enough to oblige. The 3D geometry isn’t completely “correct”, but it works fine for this camera/projector setup — so here’s some code that is open source but still fairly setup-dependent: Studio C&C. Art. ArtFoodHistory The Wines of Gala: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Wine Guide Republished for the First Time in 40 Years Last published in 1978, The Wines of Gala is Salvador Dalí’s eccentric guide to wine grapes and their origin.

Filled with over 140 appropriated artworks and collages collected and created by Dalí, the book is an equally surreal follow-up to TASCHEN’s reprinting of the artist’s cookbook Les Diners de Gala. In addition to Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus, which was a constant point of reference in Dali’s works, visuals include a Bacchus-like kitten, and a sort of tableau vivant featuring Dali himself. In keeping with Dalí’s efforts to create artwork based on his emotions, memories, and dreams, the artist chose to organize the wines in the book by how they influenced his mood. The 296-page wine bible published by TASCHEN is now available for pre-order. ArtIllustration Ethereal Acrylic Paintings by Duy Huynh Explore Cultural Displacement and Elements of Folklore ArtPhotography Art.