Week 2 Research for TOPIC!

Desktop Firworks

I found one of the most interesting design in the web is the "DESKTOP FIREWORKS", created by saqoosha. a japanese flash developer.
as you see, the demo, how the fireworks work in front of the laptop. it is amazing!!


Desktop Fireworks from Saqoosha on Vimeo.

when i was doing my reaserch work, fortunately i found the designer's blog about this desktop fireworks,
which is http://saqoosha.net/2008/08/31/1221/


He shows people how to set up or install the software, and what techniques he used in his work.

and then i want to dig further with this technique, called ARtoolKit, Augmented Reality (AR). It is pretty new technique. I found the webpage to describe
what exactly how it works.


for further informations, you can check out the web:
http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus.php


"ARToolKit is a software library that can be used to calculate camera position and orientation relative to physical markers in
real time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of Augmented Reality applications. ARToolKitPlus is an extended
version of ARToolKit's vision code that adds features, but breaks compatibility due to a new class-based API"

http://www.hitlabnz.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7


This is the place people wants to develope and work with code within this technique.


http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit


This is the source web for ARTOOLKIT technique. you can look at.. and free to download the software they used!!!

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/download/


this is the download page for different types of laptops, for Windows,Linux and macOS systems. easy to get to know this!