{"id":8691,"date":"2019-05-13T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:21:53","slug":"ar-googles-weird-cuts-lets-you-make-collages-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/ar-googles-weird-cuts-lets-you-make-collages-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"AR: Google&#8217;s &#8220;Weird Cuts&#8221; lets you make collages in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird indeed, but nifty:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpj4J8RrYwQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/08\/weird-cuts-is-googles-new-ar-experiment-that-lets-you-cut-out-pieces-of-reality-to-make-collages\/\">notes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=cc.openframeworks.arcoreexample\">The app<\/a> consists of two modes \u2014 a cutout mode and a collage mode.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that you should walk around and collect a bunch of different materials from the world in front of your camera\u2019s viewfinder while in the cutout mode. These images are cut into shapes that you then assemble when you switch to collage mode. To do so, you\u2019ll arrange your cutouts in the 3D space by moving and tapping on the phone\u2019s screen.<\/p>\n<p>You can also adjust the shapes while holding down your finger and moving up, down, left and right \u2014 for example, if you want to rotate and scale your \u201cweird cuts\u201d collage shapes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8657\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/NewImage-12.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated (AFAIK), this little app lets you sketch in 2D, then put the results into AR space. (Adobe Capture should do this!)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool! Adobe Capture should do this, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericsnowden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ericsnowden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1125044256626827264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kpj4J8RrYwQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird indeed, but nifty: TechCrunch notes, The app consists of two modes \u2014 a cutout mode and a collage mode. The idea is that you should walk around and collect a bunch of different materials from the world in front of your camera\u2019s viewfinder while in the cutout mode. These images are cut into shapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}