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Tangible Engine is the first object recognition software package for projected capacitive touch displays. It works exclusively on Ideum touch tables. Tangible Engine is now available on Ideum's 86" Colossus Multitouch Table. You can learn more at: www.tangibleengine.com and at: ideum.com
Diethard Schwarzmair, financial director of Ars Electronica, Klaus Luger, mayor of Linz, Martin Honzik, festival director at Ars Electronica, and Daniel Leithinger of MIT's Tangible Media Group.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
A custom interactive exhibit using a tangible user interface helps visitors learn about World War II and aviation history. At the Planes of Fame Air Museum's annual fundraising event in Chino, California. Learn more at: ideum.com/portfolio/planes-of-fame
Ideum collaborated with Starbucks to create an interactive experience featuring their high-quality reserve coffees. Patrons use custom laser-etched wooden coasters to explore the traceability, sustainability, and the people behind their brews. The application is shown on an Ideum multitouch table.
Learn more at: ideum.com/work/interactive-coffee
The new smart tangible architecture leads to new possibilities, including linked microphones and speakers, proximity and light sensors, and even small LED screens. This dramatic increase in flexibility allows for the creation of highly-customized tangibles that can play any number of innovative roles in tangible-based applications. In addition, Smart Tangibles will include an inductive module for wireless charging. ideum.com/news/smart-tangible-prototype
Watch our YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0d89PAuVnk
Original 3D models for this application are a courtesy of SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, myminifactory.com/users/SMK
KABUL, 28 September 2016 - Real tangible progress towards greater access to information in Afghanistan is realizable and will contribute to the development of a more open and fair society the UN envoy told delegates at a high-profile conference in Kabul, at which Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah also spoke.
Around 150 people, including senior members of government institutions along with representatives of civil society, the media and the international community gathered for the one-day meeting which also marked the first ‘International Day for Universal Access to Information’.
Mr. Abdullah said that in the history of the country, access to information is not something new and people had given their lives for it. Making information available was a government responsibility, he said.
Delivering the keynote address, Tadamichi Yamamoto -- the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA -- applauded President Ghani’s recent launch of a nation-wide campaign to improve public awareness of every citizen’s right to access information under Afghan law. Making Ministry spokespersons available seven days a week to answer media queries was a further positive step.
“Citizens’ rights to access to information lies at the heart of open and healthy societies,” said Mr. Yamamoto.
“Afghanistan today has a sound Access to Information law in place, and it has a government that has committed to improve transparency, ensure conditions for a vibrant media sector, as well as prioritize the fight against corruption.”
Mr. Yamamoto said ensuring access to information was vital for Afghanistan to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 16, ‘to achieve peace, justice and strong institutions’.
“Citizens, journalists and other stakeholders will play a key role in realizing these goals, but can only do so if their right to information is enforced,” said the Special Representative.
Mr. Yamamoto said that UNAMA stands ready to assist the Government in efforts “to achieve the law’s full promise of providing every citizen with access to information about public services”.
A collective effort was needed to increase public awareness and strengthen implementation of Afghanistan’s Access to Information Law, he said. The Afghan law came into force in 2015.
UNAMA is mandated to support the Afghan Government and the people of Afghanistan as a political mission that provides good offices; promotes coherent development support by the international community; supports the process of peace and reconciliation; monitors and promotes human rights and the protection of civilians in armed conflict; promotes good governance; and encourages regional cooperation.
Photo by UNAMA / Fardin Waezi.
Part of a Set / Slideshow documenting an installation by Claire Simpson.
There is also a YouTube video.
Claire Simpson's Performance & Visual Art (Dance) Degree Show 2012 - Tangible Light - at the University of Brighton. The piece is an installation using the materials of light, colour and theatrical smoke / mist to create the physical and tangible illusion of light. Video projectors were used to project relatively simple geometric moving shapes. This created the illusion of solid cones and planes of light.
This image / video is available under the indicated creative commons licence - subject to the approval of the artist(s) featured - and also subject to any additional conditions that the artist(s) may wish to apply.
Tangible Engine is the first object recognition software package for projected capacitive touch displays. It works exclusively on Ideum touch tables. Tangible Engine is now available on Ideum's 86" Colossus Multitouch Table. You can learn more at: www.tangibleengine.com and at: ideum.com
We customized the finish on this Ideum 49" Platform for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. We've created tables in a wide variety of durable and elegant colors and finishes. This exhibit also employs Tangible Engine, our proprietary object-recognition software.
A bank of Creator Pro 3D printers print out some small conductive parts that will be used in tangible objects for interactive exhibits. These are used with Tangible Engine: www.tangibleengine.org
Part of a Set / Slideshow documenting an installation by Claire Simpson.
There is also a YouTube video.
Claire Simpson's Performance & Visual Art (Dance) Degree Show 2012 - Tangible Light - at the University of Brighton. The piece is an installation using the materials of light, colour and theatrical smoke / mist to create the physical and tangible illusion of light. Video projectors were used to project relatively simple geometric moving shapes. This created the illusion of solid cones and planes of light.
This image / video is available under the indicated creative commons licence - subject to the approval of the artist(s) featured - and also subject to any additional conditions that the artist(s) may wish to apply.
THE HISTORY OF PENA ADOBE
Lagoon Valley was settled by two friends, from New Mexico, along with their families. The only tangible reminder of their efforts is the adobe built by Juan Felipe Pena. The two Juans,
Juan Manuel Vaca and Juan Felipe Pena gathered their families and struck out for California in 1841. They left New Mexico, seeking the land of milk and honey. Juan Felipe brought his wife, Isabella Gonsalves and their six children. Juan Manuel had lost his wife in 1839.
The widower was accompanied by their eight children. The intrepid families followed the Old Spanish Trail that terminated at Pueblo de Los Angeles. Their arrival coincided with the visit to the area by Mariano Vallejo. Admiring of Pena’s and Vaca’s pluck, Vallejo told them of the fertile Lagoon Valley. He convinced them to trek a little further, where he would agree to grant them a vast amount of land if they fulfilled his requirement to build homes, plant trees and pasture livestock.
When the two Juans had satisfied Vallejo’s requirements, they were granted ten square leagues of the Rancho de Los Putos. Ten square leagues amounted to 44,384 acres. This huge territory encompassed all of Lagoon Valley and stretched into what is now, Yolo County. During the 1840s, both families engaged in cattle ranching. Hides and tallow were the principal source of trade and income. It has been speculated that they hauled the hides and tallow by ox-cart to landings along the sloughs of Suisun Bay. The families also engaged the few remaining Native Americans to serve as ranch hands, cowboys and servants. The Vaca’s and Pena’s cultivated orchards and gardens near their homes.
Those were tumultuous times in California history. In just five short years, after their arrival, the Bear Flag revolt occurred, in which Vallejo, his brother and their families were taken to Sutter’s Fort from Sonoma, as captives care of General Charles Fremont and Kit Carson. Many of the “Bear Flaggers” objected to the treatment by Fremont of the captives and made sure that the Vallejo families were accorded some protection on their way to John Sutter’s fort. One of the stops along the way was at Pena’s adobe, where they were treated with respect, “quantities of food and liquid refreshment.”
In 1847, Americans Albert Lyon, John Patton Sr. and Jr., along with J.P.Willis and Clay Long arrived in the Vaca Valley. In April 1849, Vaca agreed to sell a half league of land between Alamo and Ulatis creeks for eight thousand dollars to Albert Lyon and the Pattons. On August 21, 1850, Vaca deeded nine square miles to another new arrival, William McDaniel for three thousand dollars to establish the town of Vacaville.
The Vaca adobe “melted” away in the elements long ago. Pena and his family are believed to have hauled, by oxen or mule teams, from Napa, the redwood that was hand hewn for the joists that support the thatched roof and make up the
window and door lintels. The two feet thick adobe blocks were formed on site from our “famous” local clay soil, straw and water. Sometime around the 1880s, the adobe was modernized and enlarged by encasing the entire building in wood sheathing and frame extension.
The restored home and grounds are now a county park located just off of I-80 west of Vacaville, California.
At that time, the North Sea was the highway of Europe: everything went faster over water. The interiors were so difficult to reach that for someone from the Dutch coast it was easier to get to Denmark than to Enschede in the eastern Netherlands.
Fibre Optic Lights, Experiment, Venus Flower Basket, 2 Part Ceramic Bowl, Light, Shadow, Basket Weave, Ephemeral, Glowing, Sensual, Pretty, Tangible Interfaces Project, R+D, Prototype, Eleanor-Jayne Browne, The D/sign Lounge
See the entire video via Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/18651159
Last September we formed an art collective called Forces of Nice and launched an art show in collaboration with adidas Originals Hong Kong. The art show party was a real success and garnered us a ton of free press through 4 major local magazines, newspapers and countless blogs and tweets about the show. The show started with an entire entourage of local Hong Kong celebrities making guest appearances at our show causing a frenzy of paparazzi photographers and groupies to form outside the adidas Originals flagship store in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
The venue reached maximum capacity (300+) within the first hour. Guests were entertained by fresh beats dropped by Tom Pettapiece (AKA Straightleg) while Chairman Ting did a live digital graffiti performance (by Tangible Interaction). Later in the evening the guests were invited to do their own digital graffiti painting while sipping Vitaminwater juices and Wyndham Estate wines. The entire project took over 6 months of planning, coordination and production.
We would like to give our special thanks to our generous sponsors:
Henry Chu, Founder of Pill and Pillow
CREDITS:
Artist: Chairman Ting
Video edit: Chairman Ting
Videography & Photography: OslerZoo Photography
Account Supervisor & Producer: Denise Kiwah Cheung
Window display animation: Alex Beim, Tangible Interaction
Interior wall animation projection: Ken Malley
Live music performance: Tom Pettapiece (AKA Straightleg)
Client: Susanna Muk, PR and Trend Marketing Manager adidas Hong Kong Limited
Part of a Set / Slideshow documenting an installation by Claire Simpson.
There is also a YouTube video.
Claire Simpson's Performance & Visual Art (Dance) Degree Show 2012 - Tangible Light - at the University of Brighton. The piece is an installation using the materials of light, colour and theatrical smoke / mist to create the physical and tangible illusion of light. Video projectors were used to project relatively simple geometric moving shapes. This created the illusion of solid cones and planes of light.
This image / video is available under the indicated creative commons licence - subject to the approval of the artist(s) featured - and also subject to any additional conditions that the artist(s) may wish to apply.
Tangible Engine is the first object recognition software package for projected capacitive touch displays. It works exclusively on Ideum touch tables. Tangible Engine is now available on Ideum's 86" Colossus Multitouch Table. You can learn more at: www.tangibleengine.com and at: ideum.com
THE HISTORY OF PENA ADOBE
Lagoon Valley was settled by two friends, from New Mexico, along with their families. The only tangible reminder of their efforts is the adobe built by Juan Felipe Pena. The two Juans,
Juan Manuel Vaca and Juan Felipe Pena gathered their families and struck out for California in 1841. They left New Mexico, seeking the land of milk and honey. Juan Felipe brought his wife, Isabella Gonsalves and their six children. Juan Manuel had lost his wife in 1839.
The widower was accompanied by their eight children. The intrepid families followed the Old Spanish Trail that terminated at Pueblo de Los Angeles. Their arrival coincided with the visit to the area by Mariano Vallejo. Admiring of Pena’s and Vaca’s pluck, Vallejo told them of the fertile Lagoon Valley. He convinced them to trek a little further, where he would agree to grant them a vast amount of land if they fulfilled his requirement to build homes, plant trees and pasture livestock.
When the two Juans had satisfied Vallejo’s requirements, they were granted ten square leagues of the Rancho de Los Putos. Ten square leagues amounted to 44,384 acres. This huge territory encompassed all of Lagoon Valley and stretched into what is now, Yolo County. During the 1840s, both families engaged in cattle ranching. Hides and tallow were the principal source of trade and income. It has been speculated that they hauled the hides and tallow by ox-cart to landings along the sloughs of Suisun Bay. The families also engaged the few remaining Native Americans to serve as ranch hands, cowboys and servants. The Vaca’s and Pena’s cultivated orchards and gardens near their homes.
Those were tumultuous times in California history. In just five short years, after their arrival, the Bear Flag revolt occurred, in which Vallejo, his brother and their families were taken to Sutter’s Fort from Sonoma, as captives care of General Charles Fremont and Kit Carson. Many of the “Bear Flaggers” objected to the treatment by Fremont of the captives and made sure that the Vallejo families were accorded some protection on their way to John Sutter’s fort. One of the stops along the way was at Pena’s adobe, where they were treated with respect, “quantities of food and liquid refreshment.”
In 1847, Americans Albert Lyon, John Patton Sr. and Jr., along with J.P.Willis and Clay Long arrived in the Vaca Valley. In April 1849, Vaca agreed to sell a half league of land between Alamo and Ulatis creeks for eight thousand dollars to Albert Lyon and the Pattons. On August 21, 1850, Vaca deeded nine square miles to another new arrival, William McDaniel for three thousand dollars to establish the town of Vacaville.
The Vaca adobe “melted” away in the elements long ago. Pena and his family are believed to have hauled, by oxen or mule teams, from Napa, the redwood that was hand hewn for the joists that support the thatched roof and make up the
window and door lintels. The two feet thick adobe blocks were formed on site from our “famous” local clay soil, straw and water. Sometime around the 1880s, the adobe was modernized and enlarged by encasing the entire building in wood sheathing and frame extension.
The restored home and grounds are now a county park located just off of I-80 west of Vacaville, California.
THE HISTORY OF PENA ADOBE
Lagoon Valley was settled by two friends, from New Mexico, along with their families. The only tangible reminder of their efforts is the adobe built by Juan Felipe Pena. The two Juans,
Juan Manuel Vaca and Juan Felipe Pena gathered their families and struck out for California in 1841. They left New Mexico, seeking the land of milk and honey. Juan Felipe brought his wife, Isabella Gonsalves and their six children. Juan Manuel had lost his wife in 1839.
The widower was accompanied by their eight children. The intrepid families followed the Old Spanish Trail that terminated at Pueblo de Los Angeles. Their arrival coincided with the visit to the area by Mariano Vallejo. Admiring of Pena’s and Vaca’s pluck, Vallejo told them of the fertile Lagoon Valley. He convinced them to trek a little further, where he would agree to grant them a vast amount of land if they fulfilled his requirement to build homes, plant trees and pasture livestock.
When the two Juans had satisfied Vallejo’s requirements, they were granted ten square leagues of the Rancho de Los Putos. Ten square leagues amounted to 44,384 acres. This huge territory encompassed all of Lagoon Valley and stretched into what is now, Yolo County. During the 1840s, both families engaged in cattle ranching. Hides and tallow were the principal source of trade and income. It has been speculated that they hauled the hides and tallow by ox-cart to landings along the sloughs of Suisun Bay. The families also engaged the few remaining Native Americans to serve as ranch hands, cowboys and servants. The Vaca’s and Pena’s cultivated orchards and gardens near their homes.
Those were tumultuous times in California history. In just five short years, after their arrival, the Bear Flag revolt occurred, in which Vallejo, his brother and their families were taken to Sutter’s Fort from Sonoma, as captives care of General Charles Fremont and Kit Carson. Many of the “Bear Flaggers” objected to the treatment by Fremont of the captives and made sure that the Vallejo families were accorded some protection on their way to John Sutter’s fort. One of the stops along the way was at Pena’s adobe, where they were treated with respect, “quantities of food and liquid refreshment.”
In 1847, Americans Albert Lyon, John Patton Sr. and Jr., along with J.P.Willis and Clay Long arrived in the Vaca Valley. In April 1849, Vaca agreed to sell a half league of land between Alamo and Ulatis creeks for eight thousand dollars to Albert Lyon and the Pattons. On August 21, 1850, Vaca deeded nine square miles to another new arrival, William McDaniel for three thousand dollars to establish the town of Vacaville.
The Vaca adobe “melted” away in the elements long ago. Pena and his family are believed to have hauled, by oxen or mule teams, from Napa, the redwood that was hand hewn for the joists that support the thatched roof and make up the
window and door lintels. The two feet thick adobe blocks were formed on site from our “famous” local clay soil, straw and water. Sometime around the 1880s, the adobe was modernized and enlarged by encasing the entire building in wood sheathing and frame extension.
The restored home and grounds are now a county park located just off of I-80 west of Vacaville, California.
Ideum released a significant update to their innovative Tangible Engine software development kit. Bundled as an upgrade option for Ideum multitouch tables, Tangible Engine is the first object recognition package designed for projected capacitive touch displays. www.tangibleengine.com
Ideum collaborated with Starbucks to create an interactive experience featuring their high-quality reserve coffees. Patrons use custom laser-etched wooden coasters to explore the traceability, sustainability, and the people behind their brews. The application is shown on an Ideum multitouch table.
Learn more at: ideum.com/work/interactive-coffee
The energy was tangible at this year's PMA Fresh Connections: Retail! Over 170 attendees gathered April 11-12 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott to make new connections and gain new business solutions. From the cocktail reception and immersive UnConference to the optional Produce Rescue Glean and Produce Retail Tour, attendees were surrounded by peers and potential partners at every turn, and the buzz could be felt over the entire two days.
Photo showing members of the Tangible Media Group at the Radical Atoms Exhibition.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
The tangible outcome of the cooperation is a family getting a safe home, a family getting a good base for living a decent life.
Ideum collaborated with Starbucks to create an interactive experience featuring their high-quality reserve coffees. Patrons use custom laser-etched wooden coasters to explore the traceability, sustainability, and the people behind their brews. The application is shown on an Ideum multitouch table.
Learn more at: ideum.com/work/interactive-coffee
KABUL, 28 September 2016 - Real tangible progress towards greater access to information in Afghanistan is realizable and will contribute to the development of a more open and fair society the UN envoy told delegates at a high-profile conference in Kabul, at which Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah also spoke.
Around 150 people, including senior members of government institutions along with representatives of civil society, the media and the international community gathered for the one-day meeting which also marked the first ‘International Day for Universal Access to Information’.
Mr. Abdullah said that in the history of the country, access to information is not something new and people had given their lives for it. Making information available was a government responsibility, he said.
Delivering the keynote address, Tadamichi Yamamoto -- the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA -- applauded President Ghani’s recent launch of a nation-wide campaign to improve public awareness of every citizen’s right to access information under Afghan law. Making Ministry spokespersons available seven days a week to answer media queries was a further positive step.
“Citizens’ rights to access to information lies at the heart of open and healthy societies,” said Mr. Yamamoto.
“Afghanistan today has a sound Access to Information law in place, and it has a government that has committed to improve transparency, ensure conditions for a vibrant media sector, as well as prioritize the fight against corruption.”
Mr. Yamamoto said ensuring access to information was vital for Afghanistan to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 16, ‘to achieve peace, justice and strong institutions’.
“Citizens, journalists and other stakeholders will play a key role in realizing these goals, but can only do so if their right to information is enforced,” said the Special Representative.
Mr. Yamamoto said that UNAMA stands ready to assist the Government in efforts “to achieve the law’s full promise of providing every citizen with access to information about public services”.
A collective effort was needed to increase public awareness and strengthen implementation of Afghanistan’s Access to Information Law, he said. The Afghan law came into force in 2015.
UNAMA is mandated to support the Afghan Government and the people of Afghanistan as a political mission that provides good offices; promotes coherent development support by the international community; supports the process of peace and reconciliation; monitors and promotes human rights and the protection of civilians in armed conflict; promotes good governance; and encourages regional cooperation.
Photo by UNAMA / Fardin Waezi.
This was an awesome mail day! Got my Tangible book (that I'm in :P) and MLC!
I'm drunk off goodness!
My work is in page 53 and 135 of Tangible, published by Gestalten
www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceaea7651d42fcca011db07...
Tangible
High Touch Visuals
Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, M. Huebner
Language: English
Release: January 2009
Price: € 44,00 / $ 65,00 / £ 40,00
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Features: 208 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-232-4
The borders between graphic design, illustration, art, interior design, architecture and craftsmanship are becoming increasingly blurred. More than ever before, graphic design is being used as the underlying medium together with multiple practices to manifest creative visions. Following in the footsteps of Hidden Track (2005) and Tactile (2007), Tangible presents further developments from the work of young designers and artists who are experimenting with this multidisciplinary approach and creating outstanding original “tangible” designs.
These designers from different disciplines are choosing to no longer work exclusively in two dimensions, instead dealing intensively with space, materials and physical products. Each chapter in the book features different trends and styles demonstrating various approaches and solutions to this new area of graphic design. Graphics morph into spatial sculptures, the intangible is made visual through handmade craftsmanship, physical experiences, visual environments and staged spatial installations such as art installations, interiors and architecture as well as urban interventions.
The striking visual work in Tangible indicates the rise of graphic-inspired interior designs as artists, graphic designers, typographers and illustrators transform their ideas into shops, restaurants, hotels and fair stand designs.
Not only can this Smart Tangible interact with software while on the table, but it can also control an onscreen 3D model in real time when lifted off the table. For example, when lifted off the table, a Smart Tangible can act as a controller that rotates an onscreen 3D model in real time. This is made possible by linking the pattern recognition technology of Tangible Engine 2.0 with the Arduino, which communicates wirelessly with Ideum touch displays. This allows the Tangible Engine Service to match the object to its physical location and create a two-way stream of information. ideum.com/news/smart-tangible-prototype
Watch our YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0d89PAuVnk
Original 3D models for this application are a courtesy of SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, myminifactory.com/users/SMK
Ideum released a significant update to their innovative Tangible Engine software development kit. Bundled as an upgrade option for Ideum multitouch tables, Tangible Engine is the first object recognition package designed for projected capacitive touch displays. www.tangibleengine.com
In 2008 the Tangible Media Group began to explore Radical Atoms through a storyboard exercise that asked us to imagine: What interactions are possible with a new matter capable of changing form dynamically?
Perfect Red represents one such possible substance: a clay-like material preprogrammed to have many of the features of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. Perfect Red is a fictional material that can be sculpted like clay—with hands and hand tools—and responds according to rules inspired by CAD operations, including snapping to primary geometries, Boolean operations, and parametric design.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
An Ideum Exhibit Technician operates our 3D printers to create a custom tangible. Tangibles allow for interactive experiences that blend tangible and digital exploration. Used with Ideum's Tangible Engine (an object recognition software package) tangibles enhance interactivity and deepen meaning.
For more information, see: tangibleengine.com
Part of a Set / Slideshow documenting an installation by Claire Simpson.
There is also a YouTube video.
Claire Simpson's Performance & Visual Art (Dance) Degree Show 2012 - Tangible Light - at the University of Brighton. The piece is an installation using the materials of light, colour and theatrical smoke / mist to create the physical and tangible illusion of light. Video projectors were used to project relatively simple geometric moving shapes. This created the illusion of solid cones and planes of light.
This image / video is available under the indicated creative commons licence - subject to the approval of the artist(s) featured - and also subject to any additional conditions that the artist(s) may wish to apply.
Kiun kaku (tangible cultural asset)
@Atami, Shizuoka/Japan
Large 1600 view recommended
畳はやっぱアンダーでしょ。
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Thank you for visiting.
Don't use this image without my explicit permission.
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Finally, something tangible to represent that slaves once walked here in Kentucky. This "slave tree" in the visitor center remembers the 93 slaves of Kentucky's famous Clay family--Green Clay and his children. Slaves are organized not by their flesh and blood family, whomever that might be, but rather by the branches of their known owners.
Listed are slaves Pomp, Teagle, Mary Jr., Mackland and others.
The 15 slaves here at White Hall that emancipation advocate Cassius Marcellus Clay inherited from his father, Green Clay, were eventually freed..
SandScape is a tangible interface for designing and understanding landscapes through a variety of computational simulations using sand. Users view these simulations as they are projected on the surface of a sand model that represents the terrain. The users can choose from a variety of different simulations that highlight either the height, slope, contours, shadows, drainage or aspect of the landscape model.
Credit: Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab
As this Smart Tangible slides on the Ideum multitouch table, it communicates wirelessly with the table, and assume a different color based on its position. ideum.com/news/smart-tangible-prototype
Watch our YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0d89PAuVnk
Original 3D models for this application are a courtesy of SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, myminifactory.com/users/SMK
THE HISTORY OF PENA ADOBE
Lagoon Valley was settled by two friends, from New Mexico, along with their families. The only tangible reminder of their efforts is the adobe built by Juan Felipe Pena. The two Juans,
Juan Manuel Vaca and Juan Felipe Pena gathered their families and struck out for California in 1841. They left New Mexico, seeking the land of milk and honey. Juan Felipe brought his wife, Isabella Gonsalves and their six children. Juan Manuel had lost his wife in 1839.
The widower was accompanied by their eight children. The intrepid families followed the Old Spanish Trail that terminated at Pueblo de Los Angeles. Their arrival coincided with the visit to the area by Mariano Vallejo. Admiring of Pena’s and Vaca’s pluck, Vallejo told them of the fertile Lagoon Valley. He convinced them to trek a little further, where he would agree to grant them a vast amount of land if they fulfilled his requirement to build homes, plant trees and pasture livestock.
When the two Juans had satisfied Vallejo’s requirements, they were granted ten square leagues of the Rancho de Los Putos. Ten square leagues amounted to 44,384 acres. This huge territory encompassed all of Lagoon Valley and stretched into what is now, Yolo County. During the 1840s, both families engaged in cattle ranching. Hides and tallow were the principal source of trade and income. It has been speculated that they hauled the hides and tallow by ox-cart to landings along the sloughs of Suisun Bay. The families also engaged the few remaining Native Americans to serve as ranch hands, cowboys and servants. The Vaca’s and Pena’s cultivated orchards and gardens near their homes.
Those were tumultuous times in California history. In just five short years, after their arrival, the Bear Flag revolt occurred, in which Vallejo, his brother and their families were taken to Sutter’s Fort from Sonoma, as captives care of General Charles Fremont and Kit Carson. Many of the “Bear Flaggers” objected to the treatment by Fremont of the captives and made sure that the Vallejo families were accorded some protection on their way to John Sutter’s fort. One of the stops along the way was at Pena’s adobe, where they were treated with respect, “quantities of food and liquid refreshment.”
In 1847, Americans Albert Lyon, John Patton Sr. and Jr., along with J.P.Willis and Clay Long arrived in the Vaca Valley. In April 1849, Vaca agreed to sell a half league of land between Alamo and Ulatis creeks for eight thousand dollars to Albert Lyon and the Pattons. On August 21, 1850, Vaca deeded nine square miles to another new arrival, William McDaniel for three thousand dollars to establish the town of Vacaville.
The Vaca adobe “melted” away in the elements long ago. Pena and his family are believed to have hauled, by oxen or mule teams, from Napa, the redwood that was hand hewn for the joists that support the thatched roof and make up the
window and door lintels. The two feet thick adobe blocks were formed on site from our “famous” local clay soil, straw and water. Sometime around the 1880s, the adobe was modernized and enlarged by encasing the entire building in wood sheathing and frame extension.
The restored home and grounds are now a county park located just off of I-80 west of Vacaville, California.
Ideum’s next-generation Smart Tangibles provide new functionality, expand options for linked peripherals, and greatly increase opportunities for creating engaging interactive experiences. ideum.com/news/smart-tangible-prototype
Watch our YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0d89PAuVnk
Original 3D models for this application are a courtesy of SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, myminifactory.com/users/SMK
The energy was tangible at this year's PMA Fresh Connections: Retail! Over 170 attendees gathered April 11-12 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott to make new connections and gain new business solutions. From the cocktail reception and immersive UnConference to the optional Produce Rescue Glean and Produce Retail Tour, attendees were surrounded by peers and potential partners at every turn, and the buzz could be felt over the entire two days.
Fibre Optic Lights, Experiment, Venus Flower Basket, 2 Part Ceramic Bowl, Light, Shadow, Basket Weave, Ephemeral, Glowing, Sensual, Pretty, Tangible Interfaces Project, R+D, Prototype, Eleanor-Jayne Browne, The D/sign Lounge
Fibre Optic Lights, Experiment, Venus Flower Basket, 2 Part Ceramic Bowl, Light, Shadow, Basket Weave, Ephemeral, Glowing, Sensual, Pretty, Tangible Interfaces Project, R+D, Prototype, Eleanor-Jayne Browne, The D/sign Lounge
The emotion in this sculpture was so tangible and sad. The story is that he had her murdered after suspecting her of infidelity - men! She looks like a sincerely innocent lass to me. www.ashmolean.org/