Another of my recent experiments with the kinect. As i keep wanting to play with particles running on the GPU i thought i would make it much more fun to play with and connect it with the Kinect. I came up with this. A million particles makes the user and disintegrates as time goes by. Actually, it looks like a man made of sand. Have a look:
This is how it all started:
During my christmas holidays i had time to spare and some ideas to develop, so with all the party-feeling and booze i started working on the one i wanted the most. This is a cloth simulation running on the CPU which you can interact with using the kinect. With the 3d information from the kinect i’m able to change the cloth in some cool ways. The most interesting is plain and simple, offset each connection point by the depth at that point. With that done i had to go with the visual side (fun fun!), so i started playing with per-pixel lighting and some cool patterns.
Then added self-shadowing to the mixture and some color control just for the fun and looks of it.
In the end i thought it would be nice to take my carpet out to clean. Happy holidays!
I have been doing more and more work away from java/processing so i had to bring some tools with me to help and improve development time. One of my favourite shader languages is CgFX, a brother of HLSL. I spend alot of time using this for my shader programming, so i wrapped it up in a simple to use block of code that should be easy to use with your favourite framework.
Finally, i posted about the Aliasing Beauty, a relative to Black&White project created for Written Images book. Read more..
So here it is, the application and source code for GML Viscosity.
I finally took the time to clean up this project and make a public release. In the packages you will find binaries and source code for the application, so if you’re thinking of using it and come up with something nice, let me know. After the first release i have fixed some problems with memory access and crashes. I have also added a simple UI for easy pick of tags from the “data/tags” folder on your hard-drive.
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?
Windows Version | MacOSX Version
Have fun.