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My first 3D prints arrived from Shapeways. I printed a prototype for my project “Shadow Cabinet” and some InstantReality gears. A great new technology is waiting.

Mozilla Bespin is great. With the embedded version and jQuery you can create a live coding editor with two lines of code.

Thus i wrote an experimental X3DOM live coding page over the weekend. Write X3D code on the left and see the results on the right. I hope to integrate it on the X3DOM examples pages soon.

Try the editor

Florian Jenett invited me to give a talk about AR, cultural heritage, user experience and open standards at Basis Frankfurt yesterday. Here are the slides. Images are following.
BasisFrankfurt_100601.pdf

Meet me tonight at ARE2010 in Santa Clara. I’ll give a talk about AR and open standards at the “AR in a box – An X3D solution” event of the Web3D Consortium via Skype.

Google announced encrypted search yesterday. In order to use it in the browser’s search bar i quickly created an opensearch plugin via searchplugins.net. Just added the ’s’ to http://.

Download and install
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View source

I worked with Processing and Arduino for years and appreciated the cmd-r shortcut for running the project. This is what i was missing for years while editing X3D files in TextWrangler and running in InstantPlayer. Finally it only took me 10 minutes googling and scripting. The result is brilliant: cmd-r and my X3D file opens in InstantPlayer. I hit Esc and it returns to TextWrangler.

This is how it works:

1. Download and copy the script “Open in Instant Player.scpt” (remove .txt) into TextWrangler’s Scripts folder (~yourhome/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts) -> It now appears in the Script Menu.
2. Open in TextWrangler “Window/Palettes/Scripts”
3. Select the “Open in InstantPlayer” script
4. Click “Set Key…” and define a shortcut (mine is cmd-r)

PS: Enable “Allow tab key to intend text blocks” in “Preferences/Editing: Keyboard”, too!