Fantasticsmag Celebrates nine years with a fresh new theme



Our freshest, biggest redesign yet. Happy Birthday to us.

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The New Fantastics

One reader writes:

The new design is the difference between iPhone and Android…

Check it at fantasticsmag.com

Full iPad support on Launch Day



Fantasticsmag features full iPad support including HD video pages. So if you’re frustrated with all your favorite style and fashion pub sites flipping to flipping mobile versions , images and video chewed up, spit out by phone-quality compression, point your mobile safari to http://fantasticsmag.com on your new iPad!

CMT Freedom hits Boston

I am pleased to announce that the CMT Freedom Taxi Interface has hit another city! This pic was snapped by Daniel Cohen, the project’s Flex developer in Boston recently.

I designed the Freedom interface in the Fall of 2008 while working closely with CMT Frontend Developer Scott Selikoff and Deborah Au-Yeung, one of the best Interactive Project Managers out there.

Another shot of the finished design

Visualizing MRI Images

Been working on a method for quickly visualizing and manipulating MRIs on-and-off (mostly off) for a couple months… Here’s a sneak-peak:

source code download here (5.8MB zip) (requires openFrameworks)

Partial Virtual Boy Teardown

My Virtual Boy screens are acting up… Cannot let go of 1995… must… attempt repair.

Fluid Interaction Research


SMARTTable: http://vimeo.com/4433205
MS Surface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0



Cannes Lions Touchwall: http://vimeo.com/5192300


Contact by United Visual Artists: http://www.uva.co.uk/wp/videopop.php?vid=1204156643&url=http://www.uva.co.uk/wp


Gulliver’s World: http://www.ehow.com/video_4982794_linz-ars-aec-museum-exhibit.html


Shadow Monsters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TOQo_7te4
Manual Input Sessions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3paLKLZbRY4


Text Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toWFvXHghDk


Delicate Boundaries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO3ohFG_YoI
Funky Forest: http://www.theowatson.com/site_assets/41/files/funkyforest_web.mov

Project Natal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_txF7iETX0

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Can Cellular Automata help explain neural networks?

Premise: How to describe complex thoughts with the simple electical signals from neurons?

Cellular Automata: Simple Rules, Complex Behavior.

current pattern 111 110 101 100 011 010 001 000
new state for center cell 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0

This is analogous to neurons with 3 inputs, and 1 output.

more:

3D (2D+time):
Game of Life


This is analogous to neurons with 7 inputs, and 5 outputs.


9 inputs and 2 outputs

Steadman Redux

New Video of Steadman projections in the Chelsea Art Museum from last year:


Original from 2007-09-16: [link]

Empire State Visualizer

Looking at NY State’s geography by zipcode…

inspired by zipdecode [Ben Fry]