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Photosketch

by Andy Polaine on October 12, 2009

in General

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.

Photosketch: Internet Image Montage provides a simple way to make image composites by doodling a picture, adding labels and then letting the engine scour the Internet for suitable photos. Once it has found the most appropriate matches, it composites them together.

I can see lots of awful e-cards and Powerpoint presentations coming out of this, but it would be very useful for putting together prototype sketches for installations and services and it is a pretty remarkable bit of technology.

(Via Richard Banks)

Tagged as: imagery, interaction, interface, Technology

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New magneticNorth web site

by Andy Polaine on April 30, 2009

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Great to see magneticNorth’s new website live. Brendan gave me a sneak peek of it yesterday and I love it.

The navigation is very playful and intuitive. Actually it is intuitive because it is playful. You basically scribble a doodle and this makes a mask into which a piece from their portfolio opens. You can then click on that item to view more info about the work or simply make another scribble to look at a new piece. The navigation across the top is a history that you can move back and forth through or reset.

What is nice about the whole thing is that you just don’t have worry about doing anything ‘right’. You can scribble any shape and you can scribble over the top of other scribbles and everything automagically sorts itself out.

Go and have a play yourself and tell me what you think.

[UPDATE: Quite some debate started about this, which I'm very happy to be part of. I wrote a long response, which is almost a post in itself, but decided to leave it in the comments.]

Tagged as: flash, interaction, interface, magneticnorth, Play

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Sixth Sense. Only Slightly Lamer than VR.

March 27, 2009

Pattie Maes is a smart woman. She’s behind some research projects that I wish I had been part of. But the above presentation at TED of Pranav Mistry’s ‘Sixth Sense‘ system gave me flashbacks to bad VR demos in the 90s and Steve Mann’s sad exploits as a cyborg. Sometimes the focus on technology for [...]

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Holographic Worlds and Gestural Interfaces

March 8, 2009

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo. The Holodeck remains a fantasy for Trekkies and we’re still not yet jacked into The Matrix (or are we? Oooh.). Guys going to enormous lengths to build stuff for their girlfriends, on the other hand, has long been part of the human condition. World Builder by Bruce Branit [...]

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Interview and profile of Dan Saffer

February 2, 2009

Core77 have just posted an interview and profile I wrote on Dan Saffer and hhis new book, Designing Gestural Interfaces. Dan talks about his vision for future devices and the way design agencies need to shift to a much more multi-disciplinary way of working if they are to survive. I’ll just point you to “Talk [...]

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Interactive Video Object Manipulation

December 7, 2008

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo. I have noticed I have been posting a lot of videos recently – I’m not sure if that’s me being lazy or that some things are simply a lot easier to explain when you see them in action (or interact with them). One interface area that [...]

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I Don’t Know What This Is, But I Like It

November 14, 2008

If anyone knows what this is all about, please leave a comment and let me know. In the meantime, enjoy the surreal interface. [UPDATE: Apparently it's the design portfolio of dutch flash designer Coen Grift - nothing like the 'coffee' in Holland to inspire some weirdness. The Dutch inspired us to make Antirom because of [...]

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Sprint’s Now Machine Data Overload

November 12, 2008

In keeping with the seemingly American obsession that more data one has the better (especially on TV), Sprint have launched a viral campaign called the Now Machine Widget. Kottke says, “I don’t know what this is or how it works or why Sprint is involved, but man is it fun to just let the data [...]

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Code Beneath the Surface

November 11, 2008

This developer from Infusion is showing off some of his modifications to Microsoft’s Surface at I Live To Code. The table has several cameras underneath instead of just one, so that he can affect the ripples and other interactions on the surface without touching it. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the demo is the [...]

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Voting Machines – The Ultimate Interface?

November 1, 2008

Photo: binkley27 Dan Saffer just wrote an alarming piece about electronic voting over at Kicker Studio and it reminded me of a great article I read recently in the Suddeutsche Zeitung (it’s in German, read the ridiculous Google translation here). The SDZ article points out that an essential aspect of voting is there being no [...]

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