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Meteor Shower |
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Sha Xin Wei - Concept & meta-physics
Jean-Sébastien Rousseau - video and particle programming
Timothy Sutton - Sound design and programming
Emmanuel Thivierge - state evolution and video feature extraction
Louis-Andre Fortin - visual design and programming
Freida Abtan - sound and systems design advisor
Meteor Shower is an experiment in gesture-controlled video and sound
synthesis.
Participants are represented as solar bodies with gravitational
potential in a particle-based starfield. Built initially as a simple
responsive environment, its next incarnation will incorporate
state-aware behaviour, and further explore ideas of nature/artifice by
building narrative structures involving "lunar characters."
As a deployable installation, Meteor Shower holds potential as an
environment for architectural installations, play spaces, and
performance events – it is being designed with such flexibility in mind.
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Ubicomp 2003 |
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Projecting live video modified by physically-models video texture synthesis, nuanced by the activity of passersby. The membrane was steel mesh, allowing people to see each other through the projected image.
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What Color is Communication? |
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Sha Xin Wei, Live Misting of Craig Dongoski Drawing
B-Complex, Atlanta, May 1, 2004
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Physics-based Interactive Fluids |
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Maria Cordell, Delphine Nain
Parametrizing video textures through gesture allows us to pour video and shape it the way a calligrapher works with ink. We use physics-based fluid modeling implemented in Jitter to produce realistic, real-time smoke and water video effects.
Combined with motion tracking and a host of other image processing techniques, our simulations enable natural and engaging gestural play with video as structured light.
Prior work by Yoichiro Serita and Erik Conrad
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