Wednesday, September 27, 2006

TARTARUS - interactive real time animation


Tartarus is a real time 3D simulation in which the viewer interacts with a virtual character. Traversing an infinite interior structure of dark rooms and dilapidated staircases, he is destined to carry his burden in the form of a wooden chair, guided by the viewer’s prompts.

You can help this virtual character to carry his burden by touch the screen and the eyes of the virtual character will follow the place you touched.

The life of virtual reality is coming closer!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Wearing reflect your emotions and personality

Philips Design has prototyped two garments that demonstrate how electronics can be incorporated into fabrics to reflect the wearer's emotions and personality - Design Probe Program: SKIN.

The garments were designed to respond to an individual's body and create a visual representation of emotions rather than just being 'on' or 'off'. For instance the dress behaves differently depending on who is wearing it, and therefore exhibits completely nonlinear behavior. Different people has different colorful SKIN, like an octopus or chameleon :)

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Unruly Beauty of the Urban High Line


The Field Operations-led team comprises a design collaborative. They are inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of the High Line, where nature has reclaimed a once-vital piece of urban infrastructure, the team retools this industrial conveyance into a post-industrial instrument of leisure, life, and growth. By changing the rules of engagement between plant life and pedestrians, their strategy of agri-tecture combines organic and building materials into a blend of changing proportions that accommodates the wild, the cultivated, the intimate, and the hyper-social.

This super natural design really give me a touch to future.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Very Intersting Auto Video - The 1K Project II


It comes from a cobbled together set of 1000 replays running on the same track in the PC stunt racer TrackMania. Not only is it beautifully shot and edited, it does not, I repeat NOT, contain any nu metal.

That's fantastic!