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A small summary of my Twitter messages from August - November 2011:

Allgemein (General)

• some nice talks http://vimeo.com/eyeofestival/videos #visual #media #art #design
• insideAR 2011 talks (Augmented Reality Conference) are online
• RT Our first title in the Maker Press series: DIY Bookbinding. Download the PDF book, bind it, and win a prize
• startnext.de ist die Crowdfunding Plattform für deutsche Projekte in Deutschland. Link via mein Bruder Lorenz
• Device Art: A New Form of Media Art from a Japanese Perspective

Generative Art:

• Our lecture from the "Design the Future" series at Carnegie Mellon University is now online

Info Design and Visualization

• Sense of Patterns, visualizing mobility data in public spaces (via @moritz_stefaner)
• RT Great talk by @mbostock on the smooth d3 force layout | interactive slides
• Linz published some local data about their area - Linz Open Data project via @mkalten
• RT http://pachube.com (platform for internet of things) is now free. No excuses now not to use it!
• RT If you are into big data streams, this service should get you excited: http://datasift.com/ (now if they had some nice visualizations... 😉
• Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access.

UX and Interaction Design:

• nice article about problems of gesture based interaction  reminds me on my old paper
• very nice: TapSense: Enhancing Finger Interaction on Touch Surfaces
• Touch Vision Interface has a really nice interaction approach for augmented reality apps
• Between the Tag and the Screen - A PHD Thesis by Kjetil Nordby
• sweet but not cheap: International Journal of Creative #Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• "An Urban Sensation" overlay live CCTV footage to a 3D model of the urban environment
• nice project openpaths.cc by the New York Times Lab

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Another tool and software for 3d projection mapping http://www.madmapper.com their blog is also pretty informative
• nice resource and software for 3D projection #mapping #visual #design #interactive #installation #art
• Amazing! Render 3D objects into photos: Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs
• KinectFusion - a research project that lets users generate high-quality 3-D models in real time using Kinect.
• Some nice development is going on... Augmented realtiy #tracking for #mobile devices
• Publication: Future Textiles

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Seems to be an interesting article: Ladder Of Abstraction by Bret Victor
• RT In case you want to work with maps in processing, here is your open source library: unfolding by @tillnm
• RT iGeo is free and open source 3D modeling software library for processing for architecture and product design
• RT Google Mapper for Processing is a library that enables you to download images of any size from Google Maps.
• RT howto use svg for rigged 2D-animations in processing
• RT a new HTTP Library for processing for GET,POST,oAuth and more
• RT Finally a good overview of all openFrameworks addons:

Physical Computing

• Nice resources and inspiration for fixing and repairing (electronic) objects via @make
• Fab@home is working on a decentralized factory approach for your home
• Infrared 101

Game Developing:

• Very nice collection of old school Game title screens
• RT Photo-realistic game engine from Square Enix
• Citrus Game Engine Now Free and Open Source
• Create Flash and iOS Games via Editor Stencil  via @andremichelle and @jensfranke looks nice!
• Construct 2 - A visual HTML5 game development tool
• Very good blog about Game Design! http://www.lostgarden.com/

Flash and Flex

• RT AIR Developer Center | Using Flash Builder 4.5 to package applications for Apple iOS devices
• Fast and easy! The Flex 4 Spark Framework Architecture for (ui) component development by David Deraedt
• Great article on #Flex 4 skin programming by @mraad . Focusing on #performance and reducing boilerplate code
• Talking Trash – An overview of #Flash Player Garbage collection
• RT Introducing opensource evoSpicyParticleEngine
• RT Particle Editor for #Starling. Blog Post | Tool (cc @leebrimelow @thibault_imbert )
• RT Check out this incredible Stage3D AGAL sandbox by @li_palebluedot - a fun way to learn AGAL shaders.
• some nice generator tool for enum and value objects
• That's sound cool vor enhancing your personal workflow: Creative Suite Extension Builder
• Not so new but still interesting whitepaper comparing AJAX and Flex in terms of productivity and etc via flexlabs
• Nice article for identifying the best web target platform. If it is Flash or HTML5