Conferences, installations and playing with AS3 (more on that soon) have been keeping me pretty darn busy lately, so there haven’t been many quality updates to Gallery Incomplet lately. Hopefully I get some time to post more experiments soon, but in the meantime I’ve posted a video of one of my new favourites: Webcam Fluid Dynamics.

This experiment lets you interact via the webcam with particles that behave similar to fluids. They flow downhill, get caught in bowl shapes, and are generally a lot of fun. Check it out here. I’m definitely going to play with this idea some more soon. I’m interested in tying in some kinematics to allow me to chain particles together.

Ideas abound. Time, unfortunately, does not.

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Wow! I was hoping Gallery Incomplet [Moved to incomplet.gskinner.com] would finalize for the Experimental category in the FitC awards, but finalizing in Self-Promotional as well is a total surprise. Check out all the awesome finalists, and vote for a people’s choice winner here.

I’m really looking forward to the conference. FitC is always a blast! I had a lot of fun delivering my talk (entitled “Playing With Yourself, for Fun and Profit”) at FlashForward, and hopefully it just gets better with practice. If you’re going, be sure to say hi!