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A seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels).
XXX Sofa - Snuggle up or give yourself some breathing room. (via futurepredictor)
This weekend (April 27-28), New Habitat will be hosting a hackathon as part of the Ideas City Festival that will present architecture as an “API” to be hacked. The hackathon will mobilize a diverse group of architects, designers, artists, engineers, and technologists by providing the designs for a proposed building in New York City to be hacked away at, into and through to new ideas for domestic living.
To participate, hackers of all stripe can register on Eventbrite at new-habitat.eventbrite.com.
(via futurepredictor)
Experiments with Water and Sound
This is what happens when you combine: a powered speaker, water source, soft rubber hose, tone generating software, 24 fps camera, and tape. via
Audi OLED Swarm technology creates a responsive interface that reacts to the driver’s touch and visualizes speed and direction.
The project 80 mesh - the shape of the sound is created with the aim to investigate the concepts that belong to the language of the mosaic, aggregation and disaggregation, pattern repetition and modularity through the use of sound and its possibilities morphogenesis.
“Black Hole” is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centrifugal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod due to the centrifugal force, creating these amazing looking structures.
3D Printed Dress Brings Technology to the Paris Catwalk
Is robot produced clothes the future of fashion and couture? This dress was the result of a collaboration between by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen and professor Neri Oxman from the MIT’s Media Lab. Interview here
Architecture and Dance Merge in Motion
“Triangle of the Squinches” is a collaborative, full-length, contemporary ballet created by San Francisco Architect, Christopher Haas and San Francisco Choreographer, Alonzo King & LINES Ballet. (more on Architizer)
Roads Cover 4.8 square miles of Manhattan
Howler and Yoon, winners of the Audi Urban Future Award image a NYC where roads become soccer fields and solar panels.
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