{"id":159,"date":"2011-07-25T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-01-02T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T08:41:15","slug":"reduced-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/all-that-is-pre-commercial\/reduced-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/TokyoCityScape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-164\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/TokyoCityScape.jpg\" title=\"TokyoCityScape\" width=\"259\" \/><\/a>In the physical world, visually noisy environments are common. Some cultures enjoy or at least live in a stimulating visual landscape, be it on their screens or in\/on the real world. I recall there being more visual noise in Asian urban landscapes than I am accustomed to. I prefer the work of designers that hide or disguise the clutter in every day life. Take, for example, power and telephone lines. For a variety of reasons these are above ground in some parts of the world and below in others.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer a visually &quot;simple&quot; world. Blocks of uniform or lightly textured surfaces: the sky, the water of lake Geneva, even skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p>Why would the same algorithms and systems used to attach additional information to the real world not also be useful to reduce information? Power and telephone lines could &quot;disappear&quot; from view, as would graffiti and trash.<\/p>\n<p>There was a poster at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ismar10.org\">ISMAR2010<\/a> that demonstrated the &quot;reduction&quot; of reality using a mobile device to cover\/camouflage a QR code in a photograph. By sampling from the background in the immediate proximity and tiling the same pixel colors and textures over the marker, there was a sense of continuity, the marker disappeared. Unfortunately, the specific project and references made to it are difficult to find but I hope to see more of this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ismar11.org\">next ISMAR event<\/a> in Basel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the physical world, visually noisy environments are common. Some cultures enjoy or at least live in a stimulating visual landscape, be it on their screens or in\/on the real world. I recall there being more visual noise in Asian urban landscapes than I am accustomed to. I prefer the work of designers that hide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3],"tags":[57,58,56],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-all-that-is-pre-commercial","tag-ismar2010","tag-ismar2011","tag-reduced-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spimewrangler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}