There’s 43 new nodes for various things including:

• System nodes: To have info on drives, files, system, services, environment variables… With some contribution from woei
• 2d Meshes : Superformula and polygon
• Hash functions: MD5 and SHA-1, in file/string flavor
• Email : Send/List
• Hittests : on quad/circles/polygons and superformula.
• Interleave : Generic vector join/split
• K-Means: Clustering from a set of points
• Particles field: Velocity field based particle system
• Regexpr : To replace string content using a regexpr
• R/S : R/S nodes with last takes precedence paradigm, and allowing multiple sendstring with the same name
• XQuery : To manipulate XML using xquery
• Geometry : Linearsystem solver, minimum circle/sphere and more…
• MTGuid2d : Multi touch adaptation of tonfilm’s gui2d plugins

and…
Fully featured box2d physics engine, including joints, controllers, multiple shapes per body…
All that contains a bit more than 30 extra nodes
Thanks to defetto/dottore who funded the second part of the development.
So here we go that’s more than 70 new nodes to play with, hope you’ll find some useful
Released in two flavors, flat version (all in the same folder, similar to addon pack, just copy in plugins), and folder based version, so you can pick which ones you want (Not recommended)
Note: If you copy folder based version using subfolders, you’ll have different plugin path, so your patches won’t work with people using flat based or potentially further addon packs. For expert only.
Please note that the box2d is still flat (as it probably been used before), so this one need to be copied in the plugins folder as is.

Download Flat version here
Download Folder version here (not recommended, see above)

Gravity was showcased at the cultural center Jacques Ellul of Pessac as part of the “Nuit défendue”, an event promoting art with expositions focused on literature, music, dance, movies or theater.

Feria PuroDiseño organiza por primera vez el concurso Work In Patch Work, destinado a estudiantes y profesionales de diversas categorías del diseño (industriales, de indumentaria, de accesorios, de equipamiento, de objetos, de joyería contemporánea, diseño gráfico, desarrollo textil, diseño digital y decoradores) con el objetivo de rescatar la tradicional técnica, promoviendo el juego cooperativo y aggiornado para la redefinición del diseño de objetos de uso cotidiano.

Tradicionalmente, el patchwork consiste en la unión de piezas pequeñas de variadas y distintas telas, donde el resultado final es el sorprendente logro de belleza por la unión de lo diverso, dando origen a algo completamente singular y único.

Work In Patch Work propone la aventura de la interdisciplina como forma moderna de trabajo, de enriquecimiento mutuo e inspiración y el intercambio libre de ideas, estilos y materiales. El concurso se desarrollará en tres etapas: en primera instancia se realizará, hasta el 30 de marzo de 2010, la presentación de imágenes para selección de 20 proyectos. Luego, los 20 trabajos seleccionados deberán presentar un prototipo, y por último se llevará a cabo la exhibición y premiación en Feria PuroDiseño 2010.

El ganador recibirá $5000 y un stand en Feria PuroDiseño 2011, donde podrá mostrar y comercializar sus piezas. El segundo lugar recibirá $2500 y el tercero una mención.

+ info  www.feriapurodiseño.com.ar

During one of my daily escapades on the world wid web I found this fairly new 11.25 minute long VJ documentary by V.I.A. It features The Light Surgeons, D-Fuse, Hexstatic, Vj Anyone, Addictive TV, Vector Meldrew and Fatamorgana. Enjoy!

… ou “Démonstration d’écriture de graphisme génératif à la volée”, standing for “Demonstration for generative graphics written on-the-fly”.
The students experimented during four days with the platform Vision Factory that was set up as the server. The client software, written with Processing, allowed them to connect and send their lines of code to the server. The principles of 3D drawing with OpenGL were explored to perform a final composition. Based upon the cadavre exquis concept, students were asked to relay every five minutes in front of computer in order to code graphics. Lines of code as well as the result were projected on two distinct screens.

+ info www.2roqs.com/RQLab/19_live_coding

I just got back from Siggraph Asia in Yokohama, Japan. Siggraph is an expo for the world’s leading experts on computer graphics and interactive techniques. I was helping Mobile Life giving a demo of the Instant Broadcasting System that they were showcasing in the Emerging Technologies section. I didn’t really have much free time to see the rest of Siggraph but visited the art exhibition and I met a few fellow VJs.
In the art exhibition there were a couple of things that stood out. The tree panel projection by Tokyo Wonder called Lights & Shadows (top video) was truly beautiful and well made.
The most exciting pice however was the Lumarca, a 3d volumetric projection on to strings. It’s made with Processing and the code is open source and downloadable through Google Code.
The VJs I met were Stuart J H Ward, a Canadian expat who has been living in Tokyo for few years and who’s very involved in the tokyo VJ scene. Stuart says the japanese VJ scene is pretty behind technically since manny of them are using Motion Dive Tokyo and are bound of the limitations of that software.  Then I ran into Tu from Bangkok based B.O.R.E.D., a VJ crew who I mentioned earlier this year in my Duckunit article. I never met Tu before since he was in NYC studying at Parsons when I was in Bangkok interviewing his friends. The last VJ I met was Nicolas Guyon who is one of the two creators of a VJ application called AWI, Audio Wave Interaction.
The rest of my Siggraph experience contained corny robots, an interactive sun rose and some pretty interesting physical computing gear from Microsoft Research in Cambridge which was kind of like the Arduino but without the soldering. And of course all the variations on touch screen and depth perception equipment that you can imagine (yawn!).

Ultimos días de la convocatoria, que cierra el 31 de Diciembre.
Manda tu reel + info personal a:
info@panoramica.cc
www.panoramica.cc

VMX Studio 2 is self-powered by USB. No power supply needed.

- 59 free assignable controllers.
- Plug & Play (Windows XP/Vista  MAC OS X – and more).
- 5 shortcuts + 4 presets and snapshot fonction.
- 2 jogs.
- 6 tracks with faders soft touch of 60 mm.
- One crossfader.
- Compatible with all MIDI softwares:
- Modul8, Arkaos Grand Vj, Motion Dive Tokio, Cubase, Reason, FL Studio, Storm, Live, Cakewalk, Sonar…
- MixVibes, Deckadance, Atomix, virtual DJ.

Nueva version de monomone.

three models: two fifty six (16×16), one twenty eight (16×8), and sixty four (8×8).

each is a reconfigurable grid of backlit keypads which connects to a computer. interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the computer. there is no hard-wired functionality.

this new series evolved from the 40h which began as an interface for our own music performance and art practice. we also make available a kit version which allows users to create their own 40h-like devices.

applications

live sample cutters, sequencers, math simulations, drum machines, generative controllers, tonal maps, games, visualizations. browse here. we make available all sources to encourage community contribution and enthusiasm.

+ info monomone.org