This application runs on top of a kinect device and its skeleton tracking capabilities. Using this technology, the user is able to draw virtual light streaks in 3d space on using their hands. The user is also able to trigger several animations by adapting different poses e.g. the star pose. Another cool feature allows the user to light up his and other players bodies on screen by using his hands.

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Below are a few examples of images generated with the application. Parameters and colors were randomly selected by the application. A single point-light was used and the normal map is generated every frame. All images were generated in realtime.

This exhibition included work from posters to augmented reality and gestural navigation software created for the presentation of images and excerpts chosen by the historical experts on Gil Vicente.

My work here was on the gestural browser application. A database of collected footage and imagery on hundreds of performances, were available for the users to explore and browse with mere movement of their hands. With a simple and intuitive movement he/she would travel through the past. A remarkable interactive experience.

The exhibition was shown at the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II in Lisbon, Portugal on May 2010.

(From @NearInteraction)

As it is known to all, balance is everything, in the universe. Without balance all systems tend to fail and break down.
With this idea in mind this installation gives the user the power to bring chaos or harmony to a representative digital sound sculpture based on simple physics. Using a multitouch surface one can disturb it’s stability and learn what the universe is about.. Balance.

(from Onformative)
Dr. med. Dagmar Kubitza, Dr. med. Frank Misselwitz, Dr. rer. nat. Elisabeth Perzborn, working at Bayer HealthCare, won the prize for identifying the agent Rivaroxaban which reduces the risk of thrombosis. More about their invention and a better explanation can be found at the “German Future Prize” website.

“The exhibition itself tells the story of the 10 most recent awarded projects using different media terminals and provides information on the goals of the Federal President’s Award and underscores its special role as an award presented by the president of the Federal Republic of Germany and supported by the sciences and industry. Because the exhibition shows only the 10 most recent award-winning projects, a media station is on hand with information on the earlier winners.”

> German Future Prize
> Press Release
> The Deutsches Museum

Windows Version | MacOSX Version

What is it?
- GML Viscosity is an experiment. It is application used to draw GML tags on a viscous liquid rendered purely on the GPU side.

What does it do?
- It liquifies your tags, in a way you can hardly read them but still looks cool (thats graffiti).
- It is possible to load gml files from the disk or directly from the “lots of zeros”book database.

How can I interact?
- Not implemented on this version. This version selects and draw gml files randomly from the web or from a tags folder. For a smart person it should be easy to add mouse support. The code is also prepared to support multitouch so, it should be easy to implement TUIO and create your multitouch version.
- Use ‘r’ key to randomly fetch a new tag from the website and if available it will draw it on the screen.
- Use the GUI window to pick any tag from the folder “tags” inside data folder.

Where can i get it?
- Right here: Windows Version | MacOSX Version

There is no executable for the time being, as i don’t know if i can spread the music, until i get permission from the author, still nobody can stop me  (for the moment) from giving you a video and some screenshots. So here it is, Float.

This is an awesome project and i really enjoyed working with the team. As said before this should not be a closed project, it was projected to live and change so it can fit other ambients, so except to see more about the Grazing Jellies.

Some videos on the development blog.

Full article on the festival @ Wired.

“Function2Form is a work on form and shape generation from the subdivision of space and image analysis. It has no rules other than the creation/deformation of limited space. It’s a study on photography. It’s a random case of geometry generation and a study of differences for different parameters and areas. Based on randomness i would say these are unique and lost generated pieces of a kind.“

Created with a custom framework for scene generation and 3dsmax for the rendering.

For the complete series, look at The Viewer #5