2.5D ASCII art concept
8 years ago Tenkai Games Dev Room made a cool ASCII nethack-like prototype, and has only gotten like 60k views. It’s amazing how things like this exist yet nobody has seen them.
When your content starts messing with your 3D Modeling Program
Coffee table diorama
Nerdforge builds a coffee table, that contains a mini library inside.
I do love the idea of buildings and everyday objects with hidden surprises in them or furniture with whimsical designs.
LSD simulator
Loka created an interesting hallucinogenic simulator (I’m glad he did so I don’t have to try it to find out).
He even has a tutorial on the workflow he uses to create the mesmerizing effects. It reminds me of early AI video attempts (like Pouff’s grocery shopping video) that had lots of trouble with consistency.
Terry English Aliens Armor
Terry English made the original armor for the Aliens movie. He still makes them today. The Prop Store recently sold one of those handmade replica Hudson (Bill Paxton) Colonial Marine Armor pieces. Final sale price was £6,300 ($7,950 USD)
Sand drawing table
Tuan Nguyen has replicated the multi-thousand dollar art versions of a sand drawing table using a raspberry pi and a Vittsjö table from Ikea.
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Breakfast
Breakfast is a art design company that makes a lot of interactive and kinetic art pieces. Many utilize split-flap, flip-discs, and other moving elements to make their creations. They recently started their Billion Dollar Arcade series that re-creates old video games with gold-foil lined flip-discs to create the playfield.
Check out some of their works on their studio YouTube channel.
3D printed infinity mirror box
Martin Etzl generated this intricate model and placed it inside of a cube with one-way mirrors.
Physical Pong
Daniel Perdomo started a project to re-create the classic Atari’s arcade PONG game – but in physical form. It uses mechanical paddles and a magnetic floating bit.
I recently got to play with one of the ones created via their successful kickstarter and it was awesome fun. I would love to own one, but it’s unclear if they’re still making them. They were also a cool few thousand dollars when they were selling them.
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Flight instruments as art
SkyArt has a collection of unique and interesting avionics controls, dials, and readouts that you can buy and use as a cool desktop curios. They even have furniture and large art pieces that you can buy.
