Author Archives: Nuno Correia

Golan Levin – “Ask me anything” video interview

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Nuno Correia

Excellent interview with Golan Levin on teaching/learning new media art, and more. Also interesting for its depth-sensing technique. (via The Creator’s Project and Reddit’s IAmA thread)

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Getting Started with PhoneGap

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Nuno Correia

I’ve posted about PhoneGap before. Now Adobe has released videos explaining how to use this open source technology for creating multi-platform mobile apps: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents-phonegap/getting-started-with-phonegap/ In the bottom of the page, there are more links to additional videos.

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Videos for learning creative programming

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Nuno Correia

Fun Programming is a series of videos explaining creative coding. Processing is used as the main programming environment, but the videos are also useful to understand the basics of programming in other environments. Link: http://funprogramming.org/

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Information Design – Augmented Reality projects

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Nuno Correia

Today was the last day of the Information Design course, and the presentations of the Augmented Reality projects. Thanks to all course participants for inspiring projects. Project files can be found here: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2012_ID/projects/

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FLARToolkit tutorial

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Nuno Correia

1. Introduction 1.1 What is AR? “Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Surface 2.0

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Nuno Correia

Microsoft Surface 2.0 will be released in 2012. Mashable has published an interesting article on this upcoming multitouch table, with hardware developed by Samsung (40″ touchscreen with PixelSense technology and 50 touch-points): http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/microsoft-surface-2-2/

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Timeline.js

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Nuno Correia

From marcinignac.com/blog/timeline-js: “Timeline.js is a compact JavaScript animation library with a GUI timeline for fast editing.”

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Cocos2d for iPhone

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Nuno Correia

From www.cocos2d-iphone.org: “Cocos2d for iPhone is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on the cocos2d design: it uses the same concepts, but instead of using python it uses objective-c.” For example, Tiny … Continue reading →

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Multitouch Interaction 2011 course reel and images

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Nuno Correia

This video is a compilation of the exercises and projects done during the course. iOS apps source code available at mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2011_MTI/

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Guest presentation on Multitouch – Jari Kleimola

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Nuno Correia

Yesterday we had a guest presentation by Jari Kleimola. Jari made a very interesting contextualization on Natural User Interaction, multitouch, and interactive tables, focusing on the project AaltoWindow. Students are welcome to use the AaltoWindow network of interactive tables and … Continue reading →

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