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 …

A “resizable” plugin for WYMeditor

The resizable plugin for WYMeditor enables vertical resizing of the editor area. The plugin is based on the jQuery UI library.

Moving the django-audioplayer from a private SVN to Google Code

The Django template tag for integrating a Flash based mp3 audioplayer was renamed to django-audioplayer and is now hosted at Google Code.

Furthermore the new version 0.2.2 is now compatible with the latest autoescape feature in Django svn trunk (tested with0.97-pre-SVN-6977):

• The inserted code is now marked …

Ordering Django QuerySets by fields of related objects

In one of my Django applications I recently needed to sort a QuerySet by a field of a related object. And despite the fact that there is some documentation available it took me quite a while to solve the problem. In the end it was about one little detail and …

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 …

Pecha Kucha Night Frankfurt 005 slides and links

Two weeks ago I was giving a speech at the Pecha Kucha Night | Frankfurt 005 on Web2.0 and Open Hardware. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. You can find more information about Pecha Kucha in this Wikipedia article …

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 …

A V4L2 camera engine for reacTIVision

I have written a V4L2 (video4Linux2) camera engine for reacTIVision under Linux. The engine was developed using a Logitech Quickcam 5000 (046d:08c5) but it should work with any V4L2 compatible camera.

A Django template tag for integrating a Flash based flv player

A Django application for integrating a Flash based videoplayer into templates using a custom template tag. It is based on the videoplayer from JW FLV Player and can be easily customized by template parameters.

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 …

A Django template tag for integrating a Flash based mp3 audioplayer

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.