Machine Thinking

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

 

Highly suggested you watch the movie in HD and full screen! This CG movie while not particularly novel in terms of abilities of recent developments in software modeling/rendering, is wonderfully put together and arranged. Alex Roman has a good eye for design and architecture and has successfully blended a number of notable timeless elements with new.

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat
• Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
• Musical Stairs

A remarkable sort-of double stop motion animation that mixes two completely different environments in a highly creative way

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Third & The Seventh
• Kinetic Sculptor and animator John Douglas Powers
• “This Is Where We Live” papercraft animation
• Glenn Marshall’s Metamorphosis and Music is Math videos
• Phonographantasmascope

Field of Reeds from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

Lullaby from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

Work-Family-Self from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

I am the Crescent Moon from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

John Douglas has produced a number of wonderful kinetic sculptures and animations available on vimeo

Possibly Related Posts:

• 1975 San Francisco’s Artists’ Soap Box Derby
• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
UK book publisher Fifth Estate made this wonderful video to celebrate their 25th anniversary. They write:

The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and shot in our other films.

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat
• Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)

Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Glenn Marshall writes programs that (sometimes) take music as an input and produces spectacular results. From the page for the top video:

Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again – the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album.

He writes about the second video, Music is Math:

I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course.

see all his vimeo videos here and more information on butterfly.ie

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat
• Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)

An interesting variation of the zoetrope principle where the camera shutter is used instead of slits or strobes to freeze the motion. The downside (or potentially part of the attraction) is that the viewer needs to watch through a machine to experience the desired effect.

Jim le Ferve of Nexus Productions writes:

In March 2007 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London we hosted an evening of animation related events which I took as an opportunity to make some more examples of my Phonographantasmascope, an extension of the Zoetrope principle.

It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use.

Possibly Related Posts:

• 1975 San Francisco’s Artists’ Soap Box Derby
• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat

Segment #1: Apollo 11 ignition and liftoff (high speed)
Segment #2: Apollo 11 tracking (high speed)
Segment #3: Apollo 8 ignition and liftoff (normal speed)

(thanks, Kylev!)

Possibly Related Posts:

• 1975 San Francisco’s Artists’ Soap Box Derby
• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat

Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

This 1947 Encyclopedia Britannica film shows in detail the processes of making a book from the linotype machine through a fully bound book. It’s fascinating how many complex steps are completely automated and how other processes are fairly manual (usually done by “girls”).

There are few machines that can compete with the printing press for their impact on the way we think and represent the physical replication of memes.

(via ilovetypography)

Possibly Related Posts:

• 1975 San Francisco’s Artists’ Soap Box Derby
• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world.

source and more information here

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat
• Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)

Virtual Ball Pit from Kevin Atkinson on Vimeo.

Kevin Atkinson created a neat virtual ball pit application that works in real time:

I’ve been playing with real-time physics libraries for a while, both 3d and 2d, and I’ve been wanting to do something for a while, but I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to come up with anything that grabbed me. But a couple weeks ago I had a brainwave and wrote this in just a couple days.

For those interested in such things, I didn’t use Box2D, which seems the current champ in developer mindshare in this tiny niche. I started out using it, and it’s quite nice, but it just wasn’t fast enough when I used enough circles/pixels to generate an intelligible representation of the video stream (there’re about a 1000 used in the demo above). Luckily, I chanced across the chipmunk physics library which uses some kind of fancy-pants geometric hashing to speed up collision testing, and it works quite nicely in real-time with 1000 pixels/circles.

Link

Possibly Related Posts:

• The Third & The Seventh
• The Sound Sculptures of Zimoun
• Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles & Ray Eames
• Happiness (or else) Hat
• Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)