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A small summary of my Twitter messages from September - October 2009:

Allgemein (General)

• Wow! nice black-white photography compilation
• Sadly... but it is so true... the hierarchy of digital distractions - nice info graphic
• Nice Blog Post: How I find good folks to collaborate with
• Readin the paper: What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory
• RT @scene360 Is it made with Paint or Code? — Illusion 360 - World's Most Amazing Art, Design, Technology, Video
• Freaky pictures on Nikon Small World Gallery
• Wow!!! Bullet impacts at 1,000,000 frames per second
• I like the web app Tilt-Shiftmaker! http://tiltshiftmaker.com/
• Tracks on a Map - A nice data visualization example http://www.tracksonamap.com/
• Emperor's Castle amazing papercraft and here more amazing photos
• Nice essay for dealing with the topic of interactive art: FEEDBACK: FROM OBJECT TO PROCESS AND SYSTEM
• Another nice essay: Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication
• really nice! Combo: A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
• Nice talk: The Wizard of Data Art, Aaron Koblin
• Please read the important words from Jonathan Harris: World Building in a crazy world! and think about it
• Interested in generative drawing?! watch this 🙂
• (Reading: Swarm Theory Article)

UX and Interaction Design:

• Really nice presentation Slides: Interacting with the Semantic Web
• UX topic: understanding experience of social-network-sites nice article
• How to Understand Your Users with Personas - A nice comic explanation
• Nice blog article: Creating a Timeless User Experience
• interesting interview: Drawing Ideas and Communicating Interaction
• Reading the paper: Emerging Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• Delta bot a nice roboter for mouse interaction via processing and arduino
• Very nice Flash Augmented Reality Experiment Idea: Augmented Reality Texture Extraction
• very nice vector-based drawing tool with very nice brushes!! http://www.livebrush.com/ via @fplag
• ACME – Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments - Impressive project!
• G-speak The Spatial Operating Environment - Minority Report Interface System Yeah the future has begun 😉
• 2d Sketches Become 3d Reality
• Could be a nice interface for games -> electric stimulus to face
• Video: Strategy Game R.U.S.E. with Multitouch Interaction
• Nice product for ubiquitous blackboard installation: IdeaPaint!!  Maybe also nice for hack the social space
• The piece was created to explore a sense of connection and playfulness in multiple urban open spaces" via @jensfranke

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills
• Amazing!!... Reconstructing Building Interiors from Images
• WOW!!! ILoveSketch, a gesture-based 3D sketchpad. Amazing!
• Markerless camera tracking (via @alexmilde) via @jensfranke
• Amazing Mobile AR Videos from Graz
• PhotoSketch as new compositing and photo search engine tool for pictures looks unbelievable!
• Totally insane, crazy, nuts, mad and anything else. The CryEngine 3
• Shape Recognition and Pose Estimation for Mobile (!) Augmented Reality
• Next generation of image manipulation!!! Content-Aware Fill from Adobe -  more info
• That AR stuff rocks! Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
• Hi-speed robotic hand - impressive: via @Quasimondo
• Muscle-Computer Interfaces (muCIs) from Microsoft

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• The Duct Tape Programmer - the new programmer boheme?!
• I really like the idea of: Fifth-generation programming language

Game Developing:

• Great news. The unity Game Engine is now free for Indie Game Developer
• Do you need sounds for your (Flash) Game? Then check this cool app Thx to 8bitRocket.com

Flash and Flex

• Away3d released a very lite version of their Flash 3D Engine.
• nice generative sound library for Flash. Looks greate for some interaction stuff like games etc!
• I think Flex Charts for data visualization is yesterday, Axiis will become the new tool! 😉 Read this and try
• Almost all Max 2009 presentations on AdobeTV  thx @_sandro
• New post: Eclipse Plug-in: Download AS3 libraries straight to your Eclipse/Flex Builder/FDT project http://bit.ly/10egz0 (via @Powerflasher)
• Reading: AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview... Sounds nice for Software Developer and maybe also for digital aritists
• Watching Advanced Data Visualization with Flex at Adobe Max 2009
• Fall in love with http://www.liquidjourney.com/ such a greate resource for creative visual coding!
• watching the talk: What is new in Flex 4
• Found a new great blog about physical computing with Flash and Flex!!
• FLash Particle Engine Stardust Video Tutorials!
• Nice Flash Framework Hype for creative coding is in progress. The first examples looks very great