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A small summary of my Twitter messages from July 2012- January 2013:

Allgemein (General)

• RT The Shape of Design - A book by Frank Chimero
• Sometimes I feel design movements are taught too much as a religion -> an example  -maybe design is the religion of 21th
• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996) via @onurson
• Really nice timeline graphic of #art theory
• beginning boring -> the end very interesting #slides: The futility of #media #art in a contemporary art world
• Really interesting and inspiring topic! Zombie Media: Circuit Bending #Media #Archaeology into an #Art Method
• RT essential viewing (for ad ppl esp!) Thanks @golan! slides from ETA, about new-media artists vs agencies:
• Just added the link Passive #Income Strategies For #Web #Designers to my #Independent
• RT Google’s Data Centers
• The Beauty of Engraving link via @onurson
• The Wood database is a nice resource for creating protoypes or just get inspiration
• Uncanny Uncanny Uncanny! #Animatronics #robotics #vfx produced by Gustav Hoegen
• RT Lovely photos of liquids by Janet Waters (via @johnmaeda
• Maybe useful at some time... http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com
• Really cool and intuitive tool for converting 2D drawings into 3D models
• Nice vision: The Future Of The Web — A Draft by @bastianallgeier

Generative Art:

• RT Drawing with Computers / Mark Wilson Book (pdf)
• RT Circle packing & Voronoi diagrams: Descartes was lucky that the algorithm-thought-police had not yet been born in 1664
• The Peclet Number and Taylor Perron's Math for landscape patterns might be a nice resource for #generative #design
• Reynolds number seems also interesting for generative design, especially for particle system / #animations
• RT Thats good! EQUATIONS FOR ORGANIC MOTION - TEST SHEET via @marcinignac
• RT Just discovered this great talk "Making Things with Maths" by @unconed Slides, video:thanks for #natureofcode mention!

Info Design and Visualization

• really nice example of narratives in an infographic: Mexican drug cartels’ spreading influence link via @mahirmyavuz
• Nice #infographic about corporate power
• Temperature visualization of the past 5 years. nicely done, @luiscarli !
• Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations
• Data Science Dictionary: Top 50 data science/big data techniques, described in less than 40 words, for decision makers.
• Info and data visualization: A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools by @datavis
• Nice #papers and resources for creating automated #layout of complex #data
• Power and Limits of #information #design via @datastories #research #papers
• RT Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
• RT Slides and docs for our d3 tutorial at #visweek
• Yay @github! http://www.githubarchive.org/  is amazing data to play with.

UX and Interaction Design:

• RT Responsive Typography: The Basics
• RT Responsive Navigation: Optimizing for Touch Across Devices
• RT The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience
• RT POP makes paper prototyping easy, but I also think some simple other kinds of interactives could be made with it
• iOS Prototyping with Fireworks and TAP
• The new Multi Screen World - Nice presentation about User behavior between different devices
• RT Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution via @verge
• nice blog post about Advanced #Gesture Recognition | $P Point-Cloud #Recognizer #code #algorithm
• Bachelor Arbeit über Stift (Stylus) Interfaces von der HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
• Blog and #research on Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday
• Impressing: Hand tracking gesture experiment with iisu middleware and oF #interaction #gesture #hand
• RT gear Systems - New dual kinect setup for finger tracking with free SDK
• RT Dirty Tangible Interfaces
• Disneys tangible interaction research goes forward: interaction with plants | touch in general
• Little Boxes by Joelle Aeschlimann -> nice tangible interface for iPad based and Adobe Air #ios #mobile #music
• #Interaction #Design Lessons from Science Fiction

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• wow, one of the best use of projection mapping I have seen until now #3d #performance #art #animation via f.kirschner
• RT Very nicely done projection mapping based video by Daito Manabe et. al for Nosaj Thing
• Natural #Gestural #Interfaces - The V Motion Project really rocks!
• already a year but still amazing: Facetracking+#Kinect for the music video ChaseNoFace - BELL
• Get accurate depth data from multiple kinect sensors with wiggle motors (Thanks Andrew Quitmeyer) link via F. Kirschner
• Perfect use of #3D #printing technology: Mixing digital sculptures with real objects via f. kirschner
• Great example of digital and eat #art: Acidable by @veselamih and Veronika from IC department #tangible #interface
• RT Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods by Andy Ellison
• The product is shit but the technology looks very promising. #Mobile body movement #gesture recognition
• For all city lovers: Aegis Pollution-Sensing Parka
• this is so geeky and sick, but also great 😉 Lego Robot Builds With Lego

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Freaking awesome! NeoCube directly from the future...  #magnet
• Disney Research Lab developed again an interesting display technology. 3d Printing of Opticals
• Tender: A Touch-Sensitive Illuminated Garment #wearable #touch #technologoy
• Artificial muscles at MIT

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• best guide for learning Programming ever link via @luiscarli
• New http://natureofcode.com  PDF now available! Please report all issues by Dec 1st. Print is coming for the holidays!
• RT @bndktgrs: Fed up with eclipse? Or processing a bit too minimal? Check my new p5 bundle for #sublime text
• Learning OpenFrameworks?! This will help you
• RT interested in working with openFrameworks on raspberry pi? check out this "getting started" guide
• RT Awesome! Improved my FLV recorder (mp3/x264) to use PBO, got 60fps easily + streams to the web #openFrameworks #opengl
• RT Microsoft Research Face SDK Beta including cartoon (clipart) generation  (via @CedricKiefer)
• nice & clear explanations / implementations of data structures & graphs
• RT Microsoft Research has released the source code of its Z3 automated theorem prover

Physical Computing

• posted some links about self sufficient arduino boards (see last comment)
• Nice tutorial page for wireless (wifi) arduino hacks: #tutorials #XBee #arduino #physicalcomputing
• RT Arduino-based camera that sends images wirelessly to your computer
• The combination of #Lego Mindstorm and #Arduino does not look very complicated and new ideas grow as fast as weed
• Just added the book #IOS Sensor Apps with #Arduino to my store Not cheap at all, but maybe nice http://sensorworkshops.com
• hm Eagle Plastic Devices delivers some nice components for building your own interface
• tindie.com/  is a nice resource and market place for electronic tinkerers #arduino #community
• Encyclopedia of Electronic Components - a terrific reference for beginners, experienced hobbyists & circuit designers
• David L. Jones is definitely the Bob Ross (painter) for electronic tinkerers... his videos are amazing 😉  #eevblog
• Some good points: The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers
• Inspiring article series: Fashioning Spacesuits http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/fashioning-spacesuits-part-one … | http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/fashioning-spacesuits-part-two … | http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/fashioning-spacesuits-part-three … #wearable #research #tech
• beautiful resource and nice article Soapbox: Return of the Learn — Hardware Companies Teach Tech

Game Developing:

• RT StarlingMVC - MVC Framework for Starling based games
• RT Adobe TV | Starting with Starling video series
• FlasCC bring #Cplusplus and Flash together...  looks interesting but the example takes ages for loading...
• Asset Management for Web Games - Build New Games
• Nice resource for Game Developers and Game Designer: GameDevTuts   An example
• RT RT @McFunkypants: Excellent gamedev article on strategy game design:using board games, lower numbers, etc
• Added these two links about Mobile Game Sponsorship and Business to myArticle
• RT "Indie Game Girl is a free resource that helps indie developers market games with step-by-step instruction"
• RT HTML5 Game Starter Kit for Windows 8
• Dont know if I have already posted it: a Tumblr about game controller
• #Arduino based Game Controller will come for controlling your new Flash Game 😉

Mobile

• RT AIR Developer Center | Supporting the multiple screen sizes of multiple devices in Adobe AIR
• RT AIR Developer Center | Increasing app revenue w/the @PlacePlay in-app advertising native extension
• business models for #mobile apps | Part1  Part2  Part3
• Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing by @daniel_sauter
• RT Not a bad bootstrapper for Android

HTML & JavaScript

• Tutorial series: HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners #html5 #tutorials
• RT JS: The Right Way
• RT Performance Tips for JavaScript in V8 - HTML5 Rocks
• RT Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
• Alles was man braucht um "Selections" mit #jQuery zu bearbeiten #js #web #programming
• Also helpful: Introduction to RequireJS
• RT Just released CCapture.js: capture canvas animations to video at fixed framerate
• Amazing list of Micro-Frameworks for #JavaScript: e.g. ColorManagement, #UnitTesting, #ImageManipulation etc.
• RT Useful tips for customizing Twitter Bootstrap
• Nice code snippet: Twitter Bootstrap Radio Button Form Inputs

Flash and Flex

• very nice and handy library for vectorize your bitmap graphics
• nice and useful list: [ANE] Free AIR Native Extensions Collection by sleepy design #air #mobile #ios
• RT Blogged: Introducing ASC 2.0 - #as3 #compiler
• Developing external extensions for #flash and adobe air: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
• Feathers: Light-weight, skinnable, & extensible UI components for mobile and desktop - free and open source
• RT Thibault, #Starling #Feathers UI Illustrator templates are online  comments are welcome

Sonstiges

• Amazing collection of free high-quality fonts #design #web #font #typo #list #collection #free
• RT 15 great places to find free background textures