#oahack teapots
A movie from some of our experimentation at the OpenAustralia Hackfest : MashupAustralia Edition. http://hackfest.openaustralia.org/ We took information from http://openaustralia.org (acquired through the API) and mapped it onto various properties in a dynamic simulation to see what would happen! In this particular rigid-body simulation each object is a member of the house of representatives and the bounciness is derived from the number of debates each has registered in the OpenAustralia database. The colours are pseudo-randomly selected: Labour (Red) National (Green) Liberal (Blue) Deputy Speaker (Purple) Speaker (Yellow) Independent (Cyan) The simulation is carried out on low-res boxes and the teapots were substituted in at render-time - this explains some of the questionable dynamic behaviour :) All the simulation and rendering is done using SideFx's Houdini. All the code we hacked is available here: http://github.com/danbethell/oahackvis/ @rhaleblian @fxmonkeydan

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