http://www.smallab.org/Playing in the land of new media authoring toolshttp://www.smallab.org/layout/smallabautoportrait.gifhttp://www.smallab.org/contact@smallab.orgenSMALLAB.ORGMatthieu Savarycontact@smallab.org Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/download/22/2012-05-01http://www.smallab.org/download/22/http://www.smallab.org/download/22/ First developed during the Processing Paris master class of Apr. 2012 starring Marius Watz, we are going to use the behavior and parameters of these Dirti traces for our demo visualization of interactions with DIRTI. To give them a shot, download the app (tested on OSX, available for Windows), clic... DIRTI Traces Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/media/21/2012-03-06http://www.smallab.org/media/21/http://www.smallab.org/media/21/ Don't know whether that odd name is going to stay... but for now that's the handle of something we've recently started to work on: the Parametropophonics are generated, parametric, audiographic shapes that find their roots in sound grains' descriptions obtained with CataRT: pitch, volume, spectral... A first look at Parametropophonics Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/media/20/2012-02-27http://www.smallab.org/media/20/http://www.smallab.org/media/20/ Lately we've been editing a 3D terrain with our dirty tangible interface prototype, check out the video on Vimeo. Software was developed with Cinder, CCGL and OpenCV. Now onto working on little more abstract ideas to illustrate the use of DIRTI ;) A dirty terrain editor Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/dirti/ 2012-02-13 http://www.smallab.org/post/dirti/ http://www.smallab.org/post/dirti/ Dirty Tangible Interfaces are a new concept in interaction design that forgoes the dogma of repeatability in favor of a more complex experience, constantly evolving, irreversible & infinitely modifiable. Want to learn more? Check out the website: DIRTI. What can it do? For now, play mus... Tangible interface & visualization Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgltouch-xcode-templates/ 2011-11-20 http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgltouch-xcode-templates/ http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgltouch-xcode-templates/ Find it with install explanations on this page or on GitHub, in a repository of its own. The idea behind this is to ease the process of creating "CocoaCinderGL Touch flavored" projects in XCode. Instead of having to duplicate & rename an example project, or having to define all the project's sett... Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-xcode-templates/ 2011-11-14 http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-xcode-templates/ http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-xcode-templates/ Find it with install explanations on this page or on GitHub, in a repository of its own. CocoaCinderGL XCode Template choice Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-touch-available/ 2011-09-26 http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-touch-available/ http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-touch-available/ It's available here: CocoaCinderGL Touch wrapper, and the related Cinder forum topic is there. I'm starting to get used to writing that Cinder is great... Did you know that one of the coolest things with Cinder is that it is iOS compatible? Meaning that you can run on the iPad whatever data visua... CCGLTouch Multi-touch example Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/cocoa-cinder-gl-touch-on-its-way/ 2011-09-16 http://www.smallab.org/post/cocoa-cinder-gl-touch-on-its-way/ http://www.smallab.org/post/cocoa-cinder-gl-touch-on-its-way/ The CocoaCinderGLTouch wrapper is well on its way (ie. the iOS counterpart to the CocoaCinderGL wrapper for OSX). Pictured here are screenshots from the Tabs example, where two CinderView's are concurrently running on the iPhone, each bearing a distinct slider to control their own cube size. How or... CCGLTouch iPhone Tabs example Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-available/ 2011-09-01 http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-available/ http://www.smallab.org/post/ccgl-available/ As of today, the CocoaCinderGL wrapper is available at the following address: http://www.smallab.org/code/ccgl/ . As introduced in a previous article, this piece of code makes it possible to use a Cinder view as a typical custom view within XCode's Interface Builder, thus allowing the programmer... Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/download/14/2011-07-29http://www.smallab.org/download/14/http://www.smallab.org/download/14/ Building on the Cocoa'd Cinder GL wrapper, and finding inspiration in this Processing sample, here is a blob detection example that takes in your Mac's camera input, analyzes it thanks to the OpenCV CinderBlock and draws the "iso-gray" blobs, letting you adjust the amount of detection levels, set t... Blob detection with Cinder Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/article/a-cocoa-re-wrapping-for-cinder/ 2011-07-02 http://www.smallab.org/article/a-cocoa-re-wrapping-for-cinder/ http://www.smallab.org/article/a-cocoa-re-wrapping-for-cinder/ [UPDATE September 1st, 2011] As of today this wrapper is available to download at its CocoaCinderGL wrapper page in the code section of this website. Enjoy! This one is about re-wrapping the Cocoa version of the CinderView (wondering what Cinder is ?) so that it will be usable as a typical custom... Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/media/13/2011-05-15http://www.smallab.org/media/13/http://www.smallab.org/media/13/ We recently had our social innovation framework Service Lab exhibited within the AdobeLive creative week by Designers Interactifs, a cool interaction design promotion association. I had the priviledge to talk about the framework and a little bit more. It's all in French though, as it was shown in P... AdobeLive Paris creative week / Designers interactifs Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/download/12/2011-04-21http://www.smallab.org/download/12/http://www.smallab.org/download/12/ For 2 years now I've been teaching Processing at Mains d'Oeuvres, for the CRAS lab. Building up on the 3D dataviz class, I've ran a short intro to GUI principles in Processing using Andreas Schlegel's ControlP5 library. The zip includes a PDF and a step-by-step series of example sketches (French... ControlP5 beginner's course material Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/download/11/2011-04-21http://www.smallab.org/download/11/http://www.smallab.org/download/11/ For 2 years now I've been teaching Processing at Mains d'Oeuvres, for the CRAS lab. It's been a great experience, having to explain what classes, particle emitters and two-dimensional arrays are... The zip file holds a PDF and 5 sketches about visualizing data in 3D for beginners (French only !) : ... 3D data visualization course material Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/media/8/2010-12-15http://www.smallab.org/media/8/http://www.smallab.org/media/8/ Cinder is a C++ framework that greatly simplifies creative coding in that language. A bit in the same way as Processing does with Java. Here, it is allowing us in taking sound grains visualization further, by dramatically increasing the amount of grains and the complexity of their shapes. Swirls go Cinder Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/media/9/2010-07-21http://www.smallab.org/media/9/http://www.smallab.org/media/9/ Swirls for CataRT now allows for .OBJ 3d file exports. Denis is starting to enjoy it, here is a sample from his tests today. More coming soon ! Swirls rendered Matthieu Savaryhttp://www.smallab.org/download/15/2010-07-01http://www.smallab.org/download/15/http://www.smallab.org/download/15/ (Distributed under GNU GPL v3.0, for OSX 10.4 to 10.6) Swirls for CataRT builds visualizations of a corpus of sounds that are imported, sliced down to tiny audio units and analyzed by CataRT. Visualization consists of "swirling" shapes in 3D space, a sort of spiralling grass that grows according... Swirls for CataRT v0.20 Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/post/topophonie/ 2010-06-08 http://www.smallab.org/post/topophonie/ http://www.smallab.org/post/topophonie/ A quick post, to anounce Topophonie's website. Topophonie is a project we are the proud partners of at USER STUDIO, working with Orbe, Navidis, the Ensci, the Limsi and the Ircam. This ANR funded project (French National Research Foundation) will last for 3 years and is focusing on the conc... Topophonie Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/article/swirls-for-catart/ 2010-04-14 http://www.smallab.org/article/swirls-for-catart/ http://www.smallab.org/article/swirls-for-catart/ For a while now with the Cimes team we have been considering building a composer's tool to write audio-visual pieces for Cimes. That idea had come from the hassle of writing hundreds of sound-shape associations and positions directly to an XML file when writing a first piece... I have recently star... interface Matthieu Savary http://www.smallab.org/article/reel-nouvel-opium/ 2010-02-14 http://www.smallab.org/article/reel-nouvel-opium/ http://www.smallab.org/article/reel-nouvel-opium/ On me proposait récemment de participer à une exposition (à la galerie des Filles du Calvaire avec le collectif Est-ce une bonne nouvelle, tous les détails en fin de post) dont on me donnait le titre, ou plutôt la problématique : "Le réel, un nouvel opium ?". Et il m'était demandé de concevoir une... Principe