Rabbit Ear

origami creative code library

This open-source Javascript library brings modeling digital origami to the general creative-coder audience; it includes a graph, math, and svg rendering library.

rabbitear.org

#origami #code

Calendars

generative sky maps

These calendars are generated in code from a Keplerian model of the solar system; they depict the motion of celestial bodies as viewed from Earth. The model itself can also be run as an OpenGL app.

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source code

#astronomy #code

Orthogonal Voronoi Molecules

This Voronoi-based design method led to one journal publication, software, and many folded models.

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white paper

design tool

#origami #papers

Snowflakes

Origami Diagrams

Fold and print diagram generator

Drawing origami diagrams is perhaps the most laborious task for origami artists. This prototype brings us one step closer to generative diagrams.

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demo video

#origami #software #installation

Jupiter Now

Jupiter and its moons realtime

This bot does astronomy and tweets a visualization of the live position of Jupiter and its moons

twitter.com/jupiternow

#code #bot

Reference Finder

Robert Lang's application

This is a re-implementation for the web of Robert Lang's foundational origami tool.

finder.origami.tools

original app on langorigami.com

#origami #code

SVG Library

creative-coding SVG

A part of Rabbit Ear that grew to become its own Javascript library; introduces functional-style attribute assigning, event handling, import/export, easy path drawing

examples and docs

source code

#code

Weather Clock

24 hours of weather including which hour it will rain. Housemates agree, this is the most unexpectedly useful device.

source code

#hardware #code

Domekit

Geodesic Dome 3D design tool

Geodesic dome construction calculator. This calculates strut lengths. Geodesic library in C

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Domekit source code

Geodesic source code

#math #code

Shifting Sand Land

Juegos Rancheros Residency

mixed-reality installation with realtime human-insect scale tranform

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devlog

#installation

Arcade of Anything

Residency, Austin TX, 2016

2D and 3D infinite scale engine

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#code

Venice Biennale

CAZA Architecture, Brooklyn

Installation for CAZA's book launch at the Venice Biennale Architecture festival.

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#installation

Crowdsourced Turing Machine

SFPC 2015 Final Showcase

a hand-programmable computer with sticky notes and Turing-completeness

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video

#hardware

Faces in Things

hashtag facesinthings

Scraped #facesinthings images, run through face-detection, aligned and overlayed.

blog post

#code

Panorama Orientation

iOS orientation library

This library caught on as a popular first-person perspective orientation-based view, written in 2014 in Objective-C.

source code

#code

Glove

Music instrument glove

This glove prototype has onboard orientation and flex-sensors, communicated over Bluetooth where a companion app registered the device as a joystick and facilitated interace to software like Ableton. Photos by Filip Wolak.

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#installation #hardware

モリサワ

John Maeda's art in VR

John Maeda created these posters for the Morisawa company. This VR app reimagines the image as an environment and places the user inside.

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#code

Pure Data

various musical programs

These sketches are mostly concerned with event scheduling and exploring alternate time-keeping methods.

source code

#code #music

Hoverpad

phone into joystick

This pair of apps convert your phone into a tilt-sensor joystick, communicating wirelessly via. Bluetooth 4.0, establishing your phone as a General HID gaming controller device.

website

#code

World elevation

USGS file format

processing tool for .dem file format, which covers the entire Earth with a 30 arc second resolution.

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source code

#code

Bach Violin Concerto BWV 1041

mvmt 1, continuo arr. for guitar

An accompaniment for one soloist; reinterprets the concerto into a duet.

sheet music

#music

Celiac Disease

Communal Living

This zine was made for housemates of people with Celiac Disease. From 2011.

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#illustration

GIF

the file format

explanation of the GIF file format

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blog

#illustration

Idiophones

Marimbas and glockenspiels

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#music #hardware

Bike light generator

open-hardware handmade LED light generator

made from recycled (mostly computer) electronics

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#hardware

Transcriptions

Typesetting and Transcribing

Various genres of music transcribed for various instruments, including staff and tablature.

music

#music

Music Experiments

compositions and experiments 2008-2013

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#music