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A small summary of my Twitter messages from July - October 2010:

Allgemein (General)

• #Latex Thesis Framework is a nice #template. It is not the best but if it's urgent, it does the job well.
• Gideon Obarzanek talks about stage-based #animation at See conference in Wiesbaden  #design
• Dieter Brell talks about #spatial #design and #architecture at See conference in Wiesbaden
• Gallery of buildings and architectural elements - good resource for inspiration via @make
• If you have problems with #math, then don't hesitate to visit this great math #tutorial site It is really big
• RT Best de-Facebooking apps so far are http://socialsafe.net and ArchiveFacebook Thanks @Haaziq @frankbarnhouse @orgicus
• RT @youthedesigner 40+ Digital Painting Tutorials You Should Study

Generative Art:

• Nice tutorial for fractal programming in processing: Codebox: Create a fractal menagerie #generative #art #design
• http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/ rocks in the domain of #generative #design Look at the nice article about them

Info Design and Visualization

• RT Journalism in the Age of Data http://datafl.ws/11z (via @flowingdata)
• Nice paper and approach for information design: Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
• Very cool #infodesign project and software #Gephi, Free Graph Exploration Software  | http://gephi.org via @infosthetics
• JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit v2 is released, looking good! (via @flowingdata)

UX and Interaction Design:

• Mark Vanderbeeken summerized 5 nice topics, which are interesting to read for #interaction #designer and artist
• Interesting article: Depth of field: Film in #design #research
• RT DarkPatterns.org - Naming and shaming sites that use black hat, anti-usability design patterns. (via @wanderingstan)
• Useful download: Android GUI set as PSD #android #GUI #PSD (via @marcthiele)
• Useful download: PSD with iPhone 4 GUI (Retina Display) #iPhone #GUI #PSD (via @marcthiele)
• Very big list of Free #Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources. #mobile #android #nokia #blackberry
• RT User Interface Design Framework - an awesome Adobe Illustrator library has just been released... (linowski.ca)
• HotGloo - The Online #Wireframe Application maybe helpful for small User #Interface & #Interaction projects #web #app

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• Great media art project: Circuit Explorations from Eva Schindling
• Nice project: Multi Touch Light Table: gergwerk A touchscreen application for DJs
• Really cool project: Kinetic Chandelier SILKE [vvvv] via @creativeapps
• txtBomber is a nice guerillia-tool
• Nice and inspiring project: The Facade Printer or should I say the automactiv Printer Gun Machine ?!

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Amazing: MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos #research #video #effect
• Amazing Software! #Twixtor intelligently slows down, speeds up or changes the frame rate of your image sequences
• #Quadrocopter the new flying robots... Amazing technology
• nice article what is state of the art at the moment: Cyborg Realism: IEDs, Prosthetic Limbs and Military R&D
• Nice and very interesting blog: Oribotics - the art/science of #robotic #origami especially for #architecture
• Nice article: Modular #Robotics (Mini) Bibliography

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Great Tutorial for using #Processing on #Android Phones via creativeApplications
• RT YouTube compares every upload against every minute of every major copyrighted work  That's some serious CPU power!
• CamSpace can be useful for creating some #webcam based games?!Has Anyone experience with it? #gamedev #tracking
• Open Atrium ( http://openatrium.com ) Schlanker Bugtracker im hübschen Gewand via @fplag his article

Physical Computing

• Maybe some time useful: #Arduino Shield List http://shieldlist.org/
• Fritzing seems to be a very nice software tool for physical computing with #arduino #processing #prototyping
• EAGLE Layout Editor ist ein guter Schaltplan Editor für #Arduino | Download
• RT Seriality - Browser Plugin that let you control Arduino via your Browser/ Webinterface (via @CedricKiefer)
• Very cool: Ethernet Shield for #Arduino with Power-over-Ethernet via @make article
• Alicia Gibbs master thesis about #Arduino New Media Art Design and the Arduino Microcontroller

Game Developing:

• AS3 Game Gears is a very good blog about #Flash #GameDev #Tools
• An amazing list of #Flash #box2d tutorials I hope they are still up-to-date #gamedev
• I am totally flashed about #Box2d #Flash #Alchemy Port + World Construction Kit #gamedev #web
• Bison Kick is a #Flash based #Box2D Editor. Looks nice #Physics
• Added the Level editor DAME to my #Flash #GameDev Lib blog post Thx @photonstorm
• creating music games in flash: ALF is a nice library
• Aves Engine is a #Game Framework for #HTML5 and #JavaScript #gamedev #web

Flash and Flex

• RT _sandro Woah. Alternativa3D goes free! - http://is.gd/g1uJc #3d #flash #engine
• RT Flash Components for Android Development #as3flobile  - let's get started!
• #Adobe Lab Project Melrose for publishing and #monetizing your #Air app. Sounds good
• RT @johnwfisherii: Really nice open source Flash profiler
• Flashkonferenz hat ein paar Vorträge online gestellt. Auf jeden Fall einen Besuch wert! #FFK10
• ActionScript #Bitwise Calculator maybe very helpful for some #bitmap programming
• Very cool: ASLSD – Line Segment Detector