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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Some thing about my presetation topic

The topic of my presentation is Hypertext and Hypermedia and I have to say that it is not easy to find examples of this topic. Thanks to Mr. Rich I have got some websites about the projects of
Hypertext and Hypermedia. If you like you can go there and take a look:
davidsmall.com
http://hypertextkitchen.com
http://artport.whitney.org/
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/valence
http://www.aspaceoftime.net/virtual.htm
While research about this topic, I also found a program which designed by designers and artists. This is Processing. This software helps designers, artists, and other people who do not have much knowledge about programming language to create interactive media. The good example of the application of Processing is the project named "Glass" of Barbarian Group. This project has been used for the exhibition named Wired Magazine's NextFest celebrated by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

In this project they use Processing to create a simulation of grasses which whiffling along
with the wind. The interesting thing is that when there is a visitor going by the screen, the grass will move! The Barbarian Group applies this on a big screen made from fabric and it is very realitic and impressed.

In order to bring the image on the screen and make it move when a visitor passing, they
use a camera to record the movements of visitors and then send them to the computer. Processing
sofware then calculate to make the grass move. After that, the computer will send images of grass to 4 DLP projectors behind the screen. These projectors will show the images of grass onto the screen.
The online version of this project is at this link:

http://portfolio.barbariangroup.com/nextfest/index.html
I think that if we can apply this project, it is really amazing.

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