martin breuer

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kautzz — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:29:22 +0000

This is my work so far. The construction of the box (80x80x80cm) itself is done. I’ll add some eye-candy (color, lights, etc.) later on. The plexiglas is 10mm thick and completely transparent. Right now I’m waiting for the “lee density frost” diffuser surface, wich will be mounted beneath the plexiglas as a projection surface (and to spread the IR evenly).
I soldered the IR leds to a circuit board and hooked them to a pc power supply (12V). The tracking device is a Sony DCR TRV digital 8 camcorder with nightshot. It’s connected through firewire and will get a wide-angle (0.4x) and just to make sure an IR filter. Its DV resolution and the high FPS will give me some good results in the tracking.
The beamer uses a wide-angle lens, too… but probably still needs to be aligned with a mirror to get the proper image size on top.

WHAT I AM DOING NOW: Testing different frameworks (reacTIVision, CCV, touchlib) to get the best results in blobdetection. Building stands for the IR spots, camera, beamer etc… setup hardware.

a quick tour around my lab from Martin Breuer on Vimeo.

bachelor thesis work in progress

kautzz — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:53:31 +0000

basic thoughts and MOCKUP, running with win7 and ccv

semesterentwurf VI

kautzz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:49:11 +0000

Here is my latest project.
We were supposed to develop a block in the city of Jena.
After careful analysis of the city’s structure we came up with this approach.

The full documentation can be found here:
(The website was used to present our concept)

new website online

kautzz — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:11:41 +0000

No, I did NOT design this page but I programmed it.
It’s all clean html, css and a little javascript.

Check it out!

Jena9D

kautzz — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:46:11 +0000

Dirk Schwittlich and I came up with this idea for an analytical mockup of Jena (Germany).
It’s a physical mockup made out of Styrodur showing the historical change of the city’s structure, layer by layer.
Additionally we light up certain areas of the mockup following a timeline, giving the audience a grasp on how the city changed over the last century.
Along with that, pictures and videos are displayed next to the mockup, each corresponding to historic events that provoked these changes.

We were able to overcome certain shortages of the architectural mockup by adding a new dimension, the time. Creating a unique dynamic visual experience without making the mockup unreadable when the animation is not present.

This was the second attempt with more to follow. Thoughts for the future are:
Adding a user interface, so the audience decides what information they want to display.
Being able to display elevations, etc. on top of the mockup houses.
Using more than one beamer to display information on the vertical faces of the mockup.

new pictures online

kautzz — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:59:25 +0000

Check out my new gallery.
chicago

mini projects

kautzz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:47:44 +0000

Diese woche sind bei uns im mr 2 neue kleinere projekte entstanden.

Das erste ist eine Unterbodenbeleuchtung für einen Tisch. Vier kaltlicht-kathoden und ein netzteil wurden per kabelbinder an den Tisch gespackst. löten, bohren, kabelbinder, kurzschließen und fertig wars.

Im zweiten projekt haben wir ein netzteil so umgebaut, dass wir spannungen zwischen 3V und 24V durch unterschiedliche anordnung von kabeln erreichen können. somit haben wir ein arbeitsgerät mehr im mr.

löcher bohren, löten, abschneiden und abisolieren, verbraucher (momentan in form einer alten festplatte) dran damit das NT anspringt, kurzschließen, fertig

New website online

martin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:29:58 +0000

Actually it’s spring-break, but I didn’t hesitate to accept two new job offers for websites. Well, I’m working 9 to 5 everyday but it pays of. Today I put up this tiny minimalistic cute website. Take a look.

WTF OMG BBQ

martin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:06:49 +0000

This is just a quick little “spice-up” of the pages you are looking at. Changed around some colors and link-styles. Also planning to host my pictures on my own. I added a lightbox. It’s by far not done but I kinda like already.
I will from now on focus less on business and more on creativity.

hamburg

martin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:13:26 +0000

A friend of mine asked me for help. He wanted to put up the skyline of hamburg on a wall in his new flat and told me I could go crazy with it. This is what I came up with.