IPP 0064 - Uzu
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Uzu - http://uzumotion.com/
What is it?
I guess technically speaking, Uzu is a kinetic multitouch particle visualizer. Really it’s a sort-of math-physics-art-toy for anyone who’s ever wanted to grab the stars and throw them across the sky. You’ll use all ten of your fingers to bend the very fabric of space and time to your will! Ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic, but you will find yourself in control of 10 different states of yummy interactive particle motion.
Particles will shoot across the screen and fly to your command, twirling in a vortex of color and motion. Freeze and move Uzu in 3d space while contorting spirographic curves with your fingers. Each state blends into the next allowing you to create a near infinite variety of animations. At 10 fingers you can even control the color and size of the particles. Basically, it’s tons of fun, and it won’t ask you to use a menu.
Uzu is very happy when multiple people touch it. Uzu loves parties, children, music, cats, and pubs – although not necessarily in that order. Uzu has many plans for the future, but Uzu would like to hang out with you now if that’s cool.
Creator: Jason K. Smith is an interactive designer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work is a mixture of commercial projects and more personal work based on exploring abstract interactive art. Uzu is Jason’s first project on a touch screen device, and he has no plans of going back anytime soon. He is currently in the process of leaving the 9-5 world in an attempt to focus full-time on pushing the boundaries of creative expression and technology. If all goes well, we’ll see much more work from him in the future.
Controls:
0 Touch: Brownian motion and boundary wrap
1 Touch: emanate and radiate
2 Touch: pinch attraction and boundary bounce
3 Touch: tri-point vortex
4 Touch: quad-point inverted vortex
5 Touch: 3d freeze and translate
6 Touch: 3d oscillating mass
7 Touch: 3d tri-arm spiral
8 Touch: 3d warp and inverted translate
9 Touch: 9 springy space ribbons
10 Touch: change color and particle size
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