FITC San Francisco 2010
HYPE
Touch Designer
Conceptual Tools
Physical Interfaces
Mobile
Union
Mapping
Audio
Inspirations
Video
Biomimicry
Interactive Installations
Frame
Megaphone
Open Source
Programming Literacy
Language/Tool Diversity
Flash
Conceived by Alex Beim of Tanglible Interaction, the project involves the design of a 60m x 10m landscaped accessible outdoor playspace which will be built in Richmond, BC. We have built a tool (using Processing) which allows us to generate a near infinite number of possible playspace layouts (a landscape of landscapes!) – and then use a Genetic Algorithm to evolve the population, selecting for interesting and accessible results. Alex and I can evolve through thousands of generations of playgrounds in the course of an hour, saving favourites, then evolve these together to get new results.

This is a unique approach to designing a playground. It allows us to explore many more possibilities than we could with a conventional approach, while considering and managing a number of very important constraints. It’s also a first chance to take some of the ideas that I have been developing over the last few years and apply them to a incredibly interesting and dynamic problem.
Jeremy Thorp
http://bit.ly/bvHpnw
Processing
OpenFrameworks
Ruby/Coldfusion/PHP
Actionscript
Javascript
Python
HTML
SQL
NoSQL
http://bit.ly/d232q8
Logo - http://mckoss.com/logo/
Lego - http://mindstorms.lego.com
Scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/
Kodu - http://bit.ly/azqWP0
http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/
Robert Reinhardt
http://blog.inspirit.ru/
Eugene Zatepyakin
http://bit.ly/c6c3WD
ASSurf
videorx.com
http://vimeo.com/9351280
Didier Brun
VoiceGesture - http://www.bytearray.org/?p=1151
Presentation Source Code - http://bit.ly/9qZDWY
Ryan Stewart
-AIR 2.5 on Android has best support for GeoLocation API
-using HTML5 + ExternalInterface is good fallback
-see http://webkitchen.be/geolocation for sample
-ESRI, interesting maps, free for non-commercial, Flex 4 components
-Modest Maps
-Zoomify
-http://gpsbabel.org
-http://github.org/ryanstewart/GpxAS3
Android 2.2
Flash 10.1
AIR 2.5 (public beta on labs.adobe.com)
http://www.theowatson.com/
http://zanyparade.com
Funky Forest, Moomah Edition
http://bit.ly/9gsjxP
Knee Deep
http://bit.ly/csBwBy
http://www.derivative.ca/
http://obscuradigital.com/
http://www.hypeframework.org/
http://unionplatform.com
http://tryunion.com
- multi-user development
- free for up to 1000 simultaneous users
- Actionscript and Javascript clients
"JUST START!" - Mike Creighton (and others)
Joa Ebert - http://code.google.com/p/apparat/
Andre Michelle
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tag/audio/
Cinder
Mike Creighton - http://code.google.com/p/capturing-flow/
1. Define your goal's & parameters
2. Start with what you know.
3. Learn to research to fill the gap.
4. Use open source software.
5. Try to be language agnostic.
6. Prototype your ideas.
7. Be part of your community.
Mike Creighton says:
Influxis Voodoo Lounge
SeekAIR
zaalabs.com
http://bit.ly/beYyvP
http://voodoo.influxis.com