Category Archives: visualization

some perspective

this is a re-hash, i know, but you can’t teach a florentine new tricks…perspective! as alberti’s story goes, brunelleschi stood in front of santa maria del fiore in florence with an easel and a mirror through which he could see the baptistry, and copied the mirrored image onto the canvas. by flattening the image in […]

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passive touch

one problem with designing for RFID is communicating the invisible – how do you know where to hold your tag, how long, when it’s read… an interesting study by timo arnall classifies the icon language that has evolved to do just that, with a neat collage combining solutions for rfid, mobile and wireless communication. via […]

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nice gait

these resources have been amassed by lorelei pepi my animation prof and they are a rich source for learning about motion: an early attempt to observe motion through chronophotography by Jules-Etienne Marey biomotionlab offers a simple demo showing how we walk differently based on size, sex, mood and nervousness – useful for motion capture and […]

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RFID rouge

future retail: applying makeup virtually by means of tagged bottles and a touch screen with an alter ego you can slather or flatter with makeup http://www.computerpartner.nl/article.php?news=int&id=2485

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