COMPUTERGRAPHICAHuman-Pixel Interaction

Trace II is an interactive drawing. It is a playful game of indirect creativity originating somewhere between the actions of the user, the program and the artist. The user must navigate a simple set of rules to generate drawings by means of a group of semi-autonomous units moving around on the screen.
Trace II is created […]

LDEO / Columbia University
A color-coded graph shows the rise and gradual subsidence of underwater sound from the earthquake that touched off an Asian tsunami last December.
An analysis of the recording suggests a new way to monitor earthquakes in near real-time, providing critical information about an earthquake’s intensity and potential hazard that could supplement seismograph data, […]

Robotics show Lucy walked upright
The robot model shows that Lucy probably walked upright. Australopithecus afarensis, the early human who lived about 3.2 million years ago, walked upright, according to an “evolutionary robotics” model. The model, which uses footprints to predict gait, suggests “Lucy”, as the first fossil afarensis was called, walked rather like us. This […]

Jason Savalon. Still Life at the Speed of Sunrise 2005
Jason Savalon. Working around art, information technology, and daily life.
Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in […]

What is NETWORKED PERFORMANCE ?
locative media, augmented reality, distributed performance, environmental theatre, pervasive play, immersive gaming, telepresence?…???
Recent technological and telecommunication developments–the internet’s two-way communication model, relatively inexpensive access to computers and networks–have given rise to a powerful and diverse range of creative production, particularly among those not self-defined as artists, resulting in a bleedover between […]

Tree representation of microbes’ genes evolution.
Link: Tangling the Tree: Corante > The Loom >

Information visualization algorithms and techniques dedicated to tree maps and hierarchical data.
Link: Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

Virtual computer characters more accustomed to battling deranged alien monsters are about to take part in a unique social experiment.
A society of virtual “agents” - each with a remarkably realistic personality and the ability to learn and communicate - is being crafted by scientists from five European research institutes who hope to gain insights into […]

Please consider coming to the DIVERSE BOF at SIGGRAPH:
UPDATE:
Thursday, August 4, 10:00am - 11:00am
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 511C
DIVERSE is a free, open-source device-independent Virtual Environment (VE) and networked simulation API. It has a highly flexible design which emphasizes reuse and reconfiguration of tools over recoding.
Device Independent Virtual Environment - Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible. DIVERSE […]

EvoWeb, website of EvoNet - the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. EvoNet aims to foster innovation, training and technology transfer, and to provide a comprehensive information service for everyone interested in the field of evolutionary computing.
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