Square is a small experimental flash game made by Etienne Perin. A little variation of the “Snake-game” category. In Square you do not fight against the length of your own tail like in Snake-games, but against black blocks on the field and time constraints. A well executed and fun to play game. Just check it out.
Poly is an experimental drawing app for the iPad, made by the Innoiz Inc. interaction design team. With Poly you can “overdraw” existing images from your library or the camera using a Triangulation-method. Each generated triangle derives its colors from the pictures, that lies below the triangle-pattern. With that app you can quickly generate pictures and patters, that remind on cubism-paintings and abstract portrait-skechtes. People who are into experimental sketch-apps, should definitely take a deeper look at Poly.
Our friends from the Interdisco-netlabel in Switzerland released an interesting listening EP. The “Mittelmass Variationen” are remixes from the Mittelmass EP, originally made by Volta Vital. The remix artists are from the Interdisco-Label. Volta Vital carefully selected tunes for each respective remixer and the outcome is this nice piece of music, with lazy grooves and original Schwyzerdütsch lyrics. Download!
Artist Benjamin Grosser made this beautiful ai-based painting machine that uses audio-input via microphone, to compute its own drawing paths. The process, how the shapes are connected to audio isn’t clear for the visitor (but explained on the project website). It’s about some artificial intelligence algorithms, that computes the sound. If no sound is present, the machine “listens to itself”. What I like is the sound-feedback of the painting process, that goes to the exhibition-room again.
I really appreciate this work from Grosser, since I was lately also experimenting with computer aided painting at the Dingfabrik (pic) as well.
A wonderful chipmusic album, that combines lofi pushing beats and chip-arpeggios with ambient-like flight over cityscapes and blissful moments in general. It’s available for download in a “name your price” mode. Starfields and Cityscapes. (via Malobit)
Note: Codea was formerly known as Codify.
There are more and more creative code tools for the iPad emerging, that use Lua as language. That is not only, because Lua is highly versatile and easy to learn, but because Apples allows to let Lua-interpretes run on their devices. Via Create Digital Motion I discovered Codea today: A full development IDE, that runs on the iPad. You can build scripts creative code experiments or even games with that tool. A really well designed tool for people who like to tinker with code. Here is the reference of the API. And here is the AppStore-Link.
PS: I lately had another posting about scripting-tools for iPad.
A neat and well executed videoclip from “2080”, song called “My Megadrive”. It is on the “Backup EP” from Gourmets Recordingz and should be at least available on iTunes.
