Monday, December 15th, 2008 by Patrick
HoHoTO Twitter wall
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HoHoTO is a much anticipated holiday party here in Toronto. It was put together entirely by volunteers in just two weeks from idea to event.
I’m very pleased to get a chance to display TXTris in a new version. As before the app pulls live content (in this case Twitter messages related to the event) and shows the falling down the projection wall. This version uses a fancy physics engine, desgned for computer games, so the messages bounce, slide and fall in a pleasingly real way.
Check out the real thing at the event, as long as you have a ticket as it sold out a while ago. Or I’ll be posting video here afterwards.
update: no video yet, but there are some photos up on Flickr.







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December 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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April 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 am
Very cool!
I like the creative rendering of the tweetstream(s).
I discovered this after reading about a “twitter wall” at Ignite Minneapolis (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ignitempls) in a friend’s Facebook status.
FWIW, another interesting rendering of a tweetstream was developed by Richie Hazlewood and his colleagues at Indiana University: http://www.greenhughes.com/content/an-ambient-view-planetou-twitterspaces
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