Hacking for Artists

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts By Andy Coghlan Video credit: Engram: Data Sculpture for Melting Memories from Refik Anadol WHAT resembles the wall of an exotic underground grotto is actually a work of art representing the circuitry of the brain in action. Engram / Remember is an incredible moving spectacle, forged from algorithms that convert data about brainwave activity into captivating imagery – this image shows just a single frame. The high-resolution screen starts off showing what seems to be a piece of paper ripping and folding into itself, then morphs into swirling shapes that wriggle and squirm around in an imaginary box. Artist Refik Anadol creates his “data paintings” and other works at the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California in San Francisco. Advertisement The artwork is part of the Melting Memories exhibition, recently displayed at the Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey. Refik Anadol/refikanadol.com Photographer Refik Anadol/refikanadol.com More on these topics:

Augmented Reality with #Processing - Tutorial by Amnon Owed All of the visuals in the above video were created using NyArtoolkit for Processing. NyARToolkit is an augmented reality toolkit built with 100% pure Java. It is derived from ARToolkit-2.72.1. Like Processing itself it’s open source and free! In this tutorial you will learn how to use it to place computer generated imagery correctly onto real world footage. All right so let’s start with the general setup. 1. 2. 3. 4. All right, time to recap. Example 1: Basic The first example is basic, but holds all of the important techniques that are necessary for more advanced uses of the NyArtoolkit. If you input the following image (place it in the sketch’s data subdirectory)… …into the first code example, you should end up with something like this… Example 2: Dynamic Time to get a little more dynamic. Example 3: OOP The third example serves two purposes. Main Sketch ARObject Troubleshooting & General Tips

Harvest, clean cryptocurrencies for climate change Julian Oliver, one of the main writers of the ‘Critical Engineering’ manifesto, has never given up on producing artworks with a concrete side, both universally applicable and opening a space of awareness and sense of contradiction in the public. “Harvest” once more possesses these qualities. It uses a 2m wind turbine connected to a (weatherproof) computer, which is connected to the internet through a 4G uplink. Julian Oliver – Harvest Responsive 3D Panel Layout A responsive layout experiment where we arrange panels in a grid-like structure and transition the elements with 3D effects. View demo Download source Today we want to share a creative grid layout with you. Please notice that this is very experimental. Some of the jQuery plugins used for this: jQuery Transit for most of the CSS transitionsModernizr for checking browser support of the CSS properties The placeholder text is from Veggie ipsum. An example for the HTML structure is the following: The first slide, which is a list item, will contain four images in this example. Each element/image can have a data attribute for the transition effect. The structure that we will create dynamically is the following: Each image or element will be wrapped in a division with the class sg-box. The background images will have the style background-size: cover which will make them cover the whole panel. To call the plugin, simply do: Don’t forget to include the other scripts that are needed.

Surreal X-Ray Photographs Reveal Hidden Beauty in Nature Our human eyes may be limited by visible light, but the work of physicist and artist Arie van 't Riet gives us a glimpse into the invisible universe around us. In exploration of nature’s hidden anatomy, Riet uses x-ray imagery on naturalistic compositions, or bioramas, created from flora and fauna. The challenging photography process requires Riet to experiment with different levels of x-ray energies to achieve the right amount of contrast in each image. Riet, who is a registered medical physicist, first became interested in x-ray photography when a colleague asked him to make an x-ray of a painting. Impressed by the results, Riet experimented with similarly thin materials starting with a bouquet of tulips. The production process begins with a black-and-white silver bromide x-ray image, which he then digitizes and inverts on his computer. In addition to flora, Riet added dead animals such as birds and frogs to enliven and add interest to each composition. + Arie van ‘t Riet

8 Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins Whether you’re already a pro at creating responsive web sites or your just learning what it’s all about, it’s good to have some scripts handy that you can easily integrate into your site. We all know how popular image and content sliders are now, and for good reason. So we decided to round up some jQuery slider plugins that are already responsive – meaning they will adapt to the size of their container. Flexslider FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. Blueberry Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts. unoslider unoslider is a fully responsive, touch enabled, mobile optimized jQuery slider plugin. Responsive Thumbnail Gallery Plugin jQuery Plugin for creating image galleries that scale to fit their container. wmuSlider Elastislide – A Responsive jQuery Carousel Plugin Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel A jQuery image gallery with a thumbnail carousel.

New York’s MoMA Acquires the First Ever (Very Pixelated) Emoji As of this morning, the Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired the original 176 emoji for its permanent collection. Designed by Shigetaka Kurita for cell phones and pagers in 1999, they aren’t exactly the bouncy expressions that make today’s communication what it is. They’re more typographical, for one thing, and they only have six colors—red, orange, lilac, grass green, royal blue, and black. At just 12 pixels by 12 pixels, the glyphs might seem rudimentary (especially beside beer steins, eggplants, and piles of happy poop), but look closer and you’ll find that they’re remarkably efficient communicators. “They’re so incredibly beautiful and expressive, even though the technology at the time was so limited,” says Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator in the department of architecture and design. More than that, early emoji were also a marketing tool. “We wanted to begin with these, but we’re not intending to stop,” Antonelli says. Go Back to Top.

28 Exciting New jQuery Tutorials & Plugins The open source movement has created a lot of new web developers. Over the past decade it’s been common to work on code projects in a private setup. But libraries such as MooTools and jQuery allow for rapid development of newer plugins and add-ons. In this gallery I’ve collected 28 plugins for jQuery users. CSS3 Swatch Book with jQuery Tablecloth.js Handsontable Complexify Plugin Turn.js Curtain.js PageScroller Sammy.js jQuery Picture jQuery Scroll Path Crafty.js FitVids.JS Blueberry Image Slider Sequence.js Rhinoslider Handlebars.js jStat Bacon timeago Caman.js Popcorn.js simpleCart.js gameQuery.js Spritely Response.js jQuery Vector Maps Blur.js Sigma.js