Jonesing for a Treadmill

August 24, 2016

Visual artists never fail to inspire, but we went all the way to Antwerp to talk to Midge Sinnaeve. Fine… technically we Skyped Midge. Though we’d love to go there! Especially after talking to him. We talk VR, books, 3D scanning, cycling in tunnels, scifi and SyFy. Part one of our conversation is here.

• Midge share’s his projects and work on his site, TheMantissa.net. He likes to call this open source artwork.
• Our guest told us his open source artwork was inspired by an open source demo reel he saw once.
• Midge says many architecture visualization artists are using Unreal Engine to create building renders.
• Everyone agrees that augmented reality is far superior to virtual reality. Chris recently wrote about that.
• They briefly talk Ingress & Pokémon Go by Niantic Labs.
• Speaking of VR, Midge has used the Oculus and the HTC Vive.
• Why can’t VR gear look as comfortable as Johnny Mnemonic.
• Chris recommends Ready Player One to Midge.
• In turn, Midge suggests the The Expanse book series, which the television show is based on.
• Midge has been doing some photogrammetry and of course sharing the results on his site.
• Midge mentions Jeffrey Ian Wilson, Paul Debevec as he tells us about photogrammetry.
• You can sculpt 3D objects in Zbrush and then get some textures for your 3D model at not the sponsor, episcura.com.
• Chris offers to send Midge his yet-to-be-used, ardrino for his photogrammetry rig.
• There’s a very big DIY community in photogrammetry. He mentions the 3D Scanning Users Group at Facebook.
• We learn about Antwerp and the St. Anna Tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists.
• What’s Midge watching?
  • The Expanse of course
  • Sicario
  • The Walk
  • Tron: Legacy
  • Oblivion
  • The Wire
• Chris and Midge talk about the animated Tron series, Tron: Uprising.
• Midge loves Tron: Legacy because it is eye candy. Chris’ eye candy choice is Speed Racer.
• We pour out our drinks in honor of Battlestar Galactica.
• Midge wants to know what happens in season 3 SGU Stargate Universe, but we’ll never know.
• An artificial intelligence that designs websites? The Grid.

Find Midge’s projects at TheMantissa.net or Instagram. Hire him at Daze.tv or chat with him on Twitter. Thanks for listening. Please find us on Facebook or Twitter and talk to us, we’re starved for attention. Thanks for listening.

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