Nokia Friends (Making of, 2008) postspectacular 2014-02-03 | Produced in collaboration with: Matt Pyke (Universal Everything)Music: "Mr.Frosty" by Mike & Rich
CharlieREPL: Forth / WebAudio multi-track realtime synth livecoding postspectacular 2016-04-21 | Audio starts around ~2:10
CharlieREPL: Forth-to-GLSL shader transpiler postspectacular 2015-12-14 | Idea inspired by http://www.forthsalon.appspot.com - actual shader demos start ~2:00
thi.ng/morphogen virus structure postspectacular 2014-04-09 | Prototype/test structure unfolded from a single cell/seed form. More information & source code: http://thi.ng/morphogenThe Morphogen project is forming the core tool for form generation in my Google DevArt commission and is currently extended to receive a HTML UI to allow for a more visual programming approach of such forms.
Google Chrome Web Lab: Avatar physics stress testing postspectacular 2014-02-03 | 1200 particles with global polygon & min distance constraints, rendering with plain WebGL & particle sprites using single huge (though dynamically updated) texture atlas and a canvas spanning 3 screens. Physics sim is running server side in Clojure/Java/Toxiclibs and streams position updates via Netty & WebSockets.
LCoM identity: Cloud render job manager webapp postspectacular 2014-02-03 | This web app is the heart piece of the identity generator, combining job queue processing/delegation, render instances lifecycle management, video encoding / transcoding and basic asset management features...
LCoM identity: animation test #4 (2012-12-13) postspectacular 2014-02-03 | Testing layering & delayed propagation of effect params
LCoM identity: animation test #3 (2012-12-05) postspectacular 2014-02-03 | Lat/Lon sphere projection & simplex noise deform
LCoM identity: animation test #2 (2012-12-05) postspectacular 2014-02-03 | Stereographic projection & twirl effect
Audi TT windtunnel simulation (Making of, 2007) postspectacular 2014-02-03 | Produced in collaboration with: Matt Pyke (Universal Everything)Music: "Distant Lights" by Burial
Enerugii Pt. 2 (Advanced Beauty version, 2008) postspectacular 2014-02-02 | Design & code: Karsten SchmidtMusic by: Simon Pyke (Freefarm / Freeform)Commissioned by: Matt Pyke (Universal Everything)Part of an 18 track DVD collection of audio-visual works exploring synaesthesia
Google Chrome Web Lab: Lab tag decoder (JS / WebRTC / GLSL prototype) postspectacular 2014-02-02 | ...
V&A Ornamental installation (2011) postspectacular 2014-02-02 | The Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned me to create an interactive installation as part of their activities around the Cult Of Beauty Aestheticism exhibition. Keeping William Morris as a loose source of inspiration, as well as addressing the museum's upcoming Power Of Making collaboration with the Crafts Council, I proposed to create a modern, stripped down interpretation of his pattern work mixed with classic islamic/indian geometric influences and then realised this project using different digital fabrication techniques.The result is a Victorian-esque, ornamental, laser-cut, 2-panel room divider, covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, mounted on the front surface as projection canvas. Visitors can create their own pattern using an iPad hidden in a small table (also laser-cut) standing nearby.The generated tiling pattern is based on a central octagon surrounded by other polygons (4,5,6,7-gons). It forms the guiding topology for both the panels and the table. I developed a number of small software tools to create the tessellations by dissecting these polygons into symmetrical smaller shapes. Using several levels of symmetry, only 18 unique shapes are needed to create the full pattern. These are then arranged, unfolded and used to generate the cut paths for both the paper elements as well as the MDF frames. The paper cones were designed in such way that their elevation varies with their distance from the centre of each parent polygon, thus creating a secondary superimposed pattern in the relief of the tessellation. All of the paper shapes were fabricated by myself using a Craft Robo cutting plotter (and 200+ sheets of paper).The room divider was manufactured by Metropolitan Works on their large-scale laser cutter. All color palettes which can be interactively applied to the polygons via the iPad UI are sampled from Morris' original wallpaper designs.Also see the full 270+ images flickr set for this project:flickr.com/photos/toxi/sets/72157625980878617The next installation period will be during London Design Festival (23-25 Sep). Also, if you'd like to commission me for similar work do get in touch!Credits:Concept, Design, Code: Karsten Schmidt[1]Commissioned by: Victoria & Albert Museum[2]Laser cutting by: Metropolitan Works[3], Cut-Laser-Cut[4]Photography: Giedre Kaubryte-Schmidt[5]Music: Vessel by (the venerable) Jon Hopkins[6] - do buy his album!!!Links:[1] postspectacular.com[2] vam.ac.uk[3] metropolitanworks.org[4] cutlasercut.com[5] manomine.net[6] jonhopkins.co.uk | soundcloud.com/jonhopkins
