Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com.

A great tech demo from Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas on the future of microsofts map technology.

Just thought i’d share something ive been enjoying the past 2 weeks;

the sight of a witches hat atop a stop sign  on Perth’s high end retail strip King Street. It has sat there seemingly unnoticed amongst the the chic shoppers for 2 weeks.

Made me stop and think, who’s job is it to remove traffic cones from street signs?

Came across this simple little application that tracks your mouse movements whilst you go about your day to day. From the site “IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done!” The end result is rather cool.

Check out a couple of images from our office today!

Worth pointing out that the large black dots are for periods of inactivity……

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*cough* *cough*

In the world of projected animation and augmented reality, some people are still doing it the old school way with some success.  This 3 dimensional model / painting is call “Paradoxymoron” by Patrick Hughes.  See link:
Paradoxymoron on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – StumbleUpon.

Some earlier work…….

3D Scanning, A Webcam’s Latest Trick | Gizmodo Australia.

Fancy use for a webcam fromUniversity of Cambridge PHD student Qi Pan. 3D scanning using a webcam,  also known as “Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition” for short.

The Holmes Residence is finally Naked!!  With work being completed at a frantic pace, the scaffolding has finally come down to reveal the street elevations of this residence.

Came across this house today in an email (thanks Pete). Worth a look indeed.

See more here at the Habitat Organico website.

A video of the house can be found here…

Nice project in Madburg, Germany. A small corner park turned into an outdoor library. The architects have re-used timber and cladding materials from an old warehouse along with repurposed beer crates!

via:Dezeen » Blog Archive » Open-air Library by KARO.

Felice Varini the master of the perspectival illusion has had some fun in a small village in the Swiss Alps, creating this great circular field.

via: An optical illusion the size of a town – Core77.