Making Musical Apps (book)

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Nuno Correia

O’Reilly has recently released the book “Making Musical Apps – Real-time audio synthesis on Android and iOS”. From the publisher’s website:

“Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd—with help from the libpd library—as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.”

I’ve embedded a preview, via Create Digital Music:

Making Musical Apps (Excerpt: How to Build a Music App for iOS)

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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
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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 to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality. By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

1.2 What is FLARToolKit?

Continue reading →

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MTI2011 – Sana-na-rama

Posted on December 29, 2011 by IlariNiitamo

Sana-na-rama is my project for the Multitouch Interaction course. It’s an educational children’s game (iPad/iPhone) that teaches spelling and vocabulary to children of ages 6 and up. The object of the game is to collect points by arranging letters into the correct order to form words represented by accompanied images. The player has one minute to collect as many points as he or she can by dragging the letters into their correct positions. Each correctly positioned letter yields one point. Points gained progress the game along a number of levels and game worlds.

The project was carried out using the Cocos2D framework.

Here’s the project proposal presentation

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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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Verbos irregulares

Posted on December 23, 2011 by rautse

My concept for multitouch interaction course is an educational iPhone game for mastering Spanish irregular verbs. The idea is to connect personal pronouns with correct verb forms using multitouch. When all pronouns and verbs are green the level is completed and player can move on to the next verb. I made a small video here.

[Updated] Get source files here

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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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