new site design and forums!

Hello there,

as you might have noticed, the site looks a bit more friendly now (and cohesive) and as an additional benefit, i have added a discussion forum where your questions and comments are more than welcome! Please take a few moments to register...

The registration process is now entirely tied to the forums. This means that you need to have a valid forum account in order to be able to edit the wiki.

All of these changes should facilitate the launch of the new Open-Source version of moviesandbox sometime next month. I am currently testing it in production and while the first version will be humble (just like the first UT2004 version was) i encourage you to give it a try, well, when it's out.
Until then, please be patient - i will restore the site to its full content over the coming days.

Friedrich

the marionettes at eyebeam

"the marionettes" is a networked puppet installation created with the new standalone (and soon opensourced) version of moviesandbox and displayed for the eyebeam reception for the shanghai media art fair symposium in new york

Two networked puppets can be controlled by hardware marionette controllers. Participants can interact with each other through their puppets without seeing each other in person.

The controllers are a bit more sophisticated right now, albeit not really tweaked enough in terms of distances etc... There are some more picture on flickr here.

Blender Milkscan

Jonas over at pixelsix sat down last weekend to scan a self-modeled play-doh face with the milkscanner software and the results are astonishingly accurate - at least for my expectations.
Go read and see for yourself!