Magic @ Glasgow School of Art

Friday, 18 January 2008

Storyboards

Ordinary event: Dating

An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.

Group Members

Theo Blackburn

Aashield Stav

Lauren Coleman

Ordinary event: Talking

To express one's thoughts or emotions by means of spoken language.

Group Members

Jen Steward

Keira Anderson

Megan Lambie

Ordinary event: Weather

The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.

Group Members

Sam Dunne

Greig Robinson

Wiston Wong

Ordinary event: Writing

To trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.

Group Members

Zoe Milne

Christina Kinnear

Kirsty Sinclair

Ordinary event: Paying

To give money to in return for goods or services rendered: pay the cashier.

Group Members

Iain Archibald

Fraser Gibb

Rumi K.

Ordinary event: Music

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

Group Members

Rachel Kerr

Elizabeth Peacock

Rory Horne

Ordinary event: Thinking

To have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.

Group Members

James Porteous

Rachel Patrick

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

an ambient eco-aware visualization cup as the external surface of the cup is printed with a second layer of heat sensitive ink that is revealed when hot water is poured into it. when hot water is poured in, the image of sea over land appears as a direct representation of the slowly heating waters on our planet.

Real invisibility cloak

I found this video a few years ago on a japanese website. It shows an experimental cloaking device. Can you guess how it works?

Optical Camouflage (Invisible Cloak)

One of the labs in the University of Tokyo uploaded some interesting videos several years ago.
This technology involves neither chroma-keying nor photoshopping but is "quasi-invisibility" using a specific fabric and projector.

Living Glass

With slits cut into a polymer window and elastic shape memory alloy (SMA) wires, Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin have developed a kinetic glass that reacts to environmental conditions. When sensors detect high amounts of carbon dioxide, an electric current is sent to the SMA wires that cause them to contract and open the slits etched in the window. Once equilibrium with the outside air is reached, the electric current subsides and the window resumes its original shape.