MAKE subscriber Bill has a great kite building blog along with a lot of resources and photos Link. Kite Aerial Flickr photo set. Kite building forums. Pictured here, a geodesic dome that looks like a golf ball when photographed from up above. Related: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky by Charles C. […]
If you want to apply a meta layer to the virtual world, you can now – SLurl is a way to make your own data/images/web pages appear over specific locations in the virtual world, Second Life. It’s a little like Google maps, and it allows you to teleport directly to that location. We have a […]
This is an interesting project, a 3D terrain engine from scratch – if you ever plan to attempt anything like building your own 3D game, it’s a good read of the puzzle solving and compromises involved. Shamus writes – “My goal is to write a terrain engine from the ground up, using entirely new code. […]
MAKE will be at this in world – “The next Second Life Future Salon is this Thursday the 23rd at 3:30 PM PST with Michael Frumin from Eyebeam OpenLab, “a home for artists, engineers and hackers pioneering open source creativity” in New York City. We’ll stream live audio of Mike discussing his OGLE project (OpenGLExtractor) […]
I’ll post more when I land, getting on a plane now – the mixed reality party was great – special thanks to Electric Sheep, Rhythm & Blues & MTV2. Link.
Reminder: MAKE will be at the The Happening: Mixed-Reality Party in DC on Saturday and also in Second Life so you can attend virtually and for free on Mac, Win and Linux… – pictured, what I have to fit in my alloted carry on baggage. Details about the event here – Link.
Take 3D drawings and data (WoW, Second Life, etc..) and plop them inside Google Earth – “Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth. Once installed, it allows you to export 3D models from within your scene as a single Google Earth Placemark (KML) file. […]
