I recently built a structure with bamboos, inspired by the “Da Vinci bridge” (which is a specific simpler case of a reciprocal frame structure). Bamboos are neat: they grow fast, they are cheap (some people will just be happy if you cut theirs for free), they are quite strong and flexible, they’re relatively immune to rotting, though they’re organic and bio-degradable, but they are not always easy to work with when it comes to dimensioning…
misc
Real-time video matting in Max
I was testing out some real-time video matting in Max/MSP, that we developped for an ongoing project (edit: the Cinematon is out!), and realized that “sunset.jpg” demo file was a nice match for this memorable dialogue in Romero’s “Night of the living dead”… If it weren’t for all those zombies outside, it could have been such a lovely campfire scene!
Diving into unknown pleasures
Il y a quelque chose d’intrigant dans la pochette de l’album “Unknown Pleasures” de Joy Division (1979). On attribue souvent cette image à Peter Saville, designer pour le label Factory Records à l’époque de la sortie de l’album, mais il n’a fait que mettre en blanc sur noir un dessin déjà paru dans le Scientific American, une dizaine d’années plus tôt.
microscope on raspberry
Successfully connected that microscope cam to a raspberry for Gladys Brégeon‘s upcoming exhibition. Thanks openframeworks!
Now the only remaining bugs are those dead on my dirty desktop.
Code is open-source and available there : https://github.com/vincentgoudard/raspiCamGrab