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Painting with a digital brush
An attempt to free ASCII Art from the confines of the screen and enable it to exist in physical space - with light and paint.
There have been some really cool projects and experiments using WebGL, which allows the browser to render hardware-accelerated 3D graphics using your computer's graphics card, requiring no plug-ins. That means we'll be seeing a lot of cool projects using this technology.
One great project is by Fellow Sundance New Frontier Artist Chris Milk (co-creator of the Wilderness Downtown, an absolutely nostalgic and beautiful use of web technology). Milk collaborated with Aaron Koblin and Google's Data Arts Team again to create ROME: 3 Dreams of Black, an interactive film and web-dreamscape in 3D that you can navigate and travel through with 3D imagery exploding around you. The experiment also allows you to contribute your own 3D lanscape to the dreamscape. ROME is a WebGL experiment based on Danger Mouse's song 3 Dreams In Black from their latest concept album Rome.
When I was in London for the Mozilla Festival last fall, the National Film Board of Canada's (NFB) released the first-ever completely web-native WebGL film One Millionth Tower, which I had the pleasure of seeing. One Millionth Tower allows the audience to explore a 3D world of stories, photos and media, where the interaction with the film is a choose your own adventure within the 3D world they created.
I discovered a new WebGL experiment that I absolutely fell in love with:Peter Nitsch's ASCII Street View, which is built on Google's Street View and renders the images in real-time using ASCII characters. I think it's brilliant. I played with it a lot and here are some snapshots of some of my homes. Above you'll see my childhood home in Cupertino, California and where I lived in Brooklyn, New York. The last ASCII Street View rendered after I typed in "Pyramids of Giza, Egypt", but I'm not really sure that is in Egypt. It is still a gorgeous desert Street View though.
Type in your address and enjoy! The Creator's Project describes the experience as though you're "entering the Matrix", which I think is pretty apt.
You can also find more WebGL experiments on Google's Chrome Experiments.
Real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama's done in WebGL.
