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mental rotation

With this application you can train your mental rotation skills.

Mental rotation is somewhat localized to the right cerebral hemisphere. It is thought to take place largely in the same areas as perception. It is associated with the rate of spatial processing and intelligence

Each object in the game has an identical twin brother. Your goal is to find all pairs before the time runs out. If you make a mistake the interaction stops for a few seconds.

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amnesia

This is a experiment to create the illusion of a nervous-system which is expanding and making new neural connections. This is aimed to use in a performance, where the actor will get his memories back while recovering from amnesia.

Flow 2.0

This work represents the current stage of a long-term research aimed to create a tool / language able to generate dynamic compositions of forms and colors. The source for image synthesis is based on the results of physical simulations and mathematical procedures derived from patterns of nature.

The current system is aiming to create a new medium between steady and motion picture. The surface is formed of movements close to the limit of human perception.

From a distance, these compositions appear like still images, but as we get closer they start to reveal details as well as underlying coherences. The compositions are the result of endless simulations. Each frame is the univocal consequence of the previous one.

This medium cannot be considered as a conventional image. The material of the creation is made from pure logical connections. The presence of the slowly moving focus point enhances the idea of temporariness creating the impression that the whole can never be experienced. The lack of information forces the viewer to change his/her perspective and to get more involved in the phenomenon.

The elements of the compositions are archetypes of physical structures. There are no concrete shapes. Blobs and lines are compiled inside the viewer, they materialize in our cognitive space. They force the viewer to constantly create associations. The graphical objects composing the image are the result of complex geometric calculations. The organic and living effect of the surface is created only inside our brain; it is the result of our mental projection. The image generated is just as much close and familiar as far and unknown.

Composition experiments:

Sphere Tones

This is a visual instrument. In contrast to traditional composition methods this approach places intuition, randomness, playfulness in the focus of attention.

The body of the instrument is the interface itself. The graphic is minimalistic and 100% functional. Here every line has a meaning. What you can see you can hear and it is true for the other way around as well. The interface is the fusion of sound and image. The system organically changes as the user plays, it balances between order and chaos.

The base element is the Sound-Sphere. Imagine a planet, where the ball you drop, will always be bouncing, creating a perpetual-motion machine. The height of the drop controls the time between bounces, hence the rhythm.

Zooming is the other key part of the composition. By changing the perspective, the user is able to change different aspects of the sound. At the normal level, the rhythm can be created, in a deeper state it is possible to shape the triggered sounds.

What you can see you can hear. This statement is always true. By moving in the endless sound-space only the visible spheres are audible. The centre sphere is the loudest, by moving out of the screen the volume decreases, until it becomes completely silent.

This is how you create a simple composition.

You can try it yourself !

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Tweetpositive

It's been a difficult year. Probably the next one won't be any easier either. Bad news is pouring from the media. Everybody could use a bit of positivity in this situation. There's never been some much need of positivity around people and some good news instead of the bad ones.

About the project:

We would like to gather people's positive thoughts into one place with an interactive installation and give it to the passersby as an inspiration. Therefore we'd like to ask everybody to share their positive thoughts on Twitter between 27th of December and 6th of January.
We will wrap the positive thoughts into light-bugs. These bugs will appear on an interactive surface on the ground floor of our building

Credits:

- DDB Advertising
- Room168
- binaura.net

OniGames

Oni-Games is a software collection where you can use your hands or even your whole body (without any special wearable) to control the interactive content. I've made these demos for the site: arena.openni.org, these are free to download.

Fuzzi-Painter

This software is a virtual canvas. All the three different "brushes" has their own intelligence, they all have diverse personalities. By using simple hand gestures you can create colourful blobs on the clean canvas.

Body-VJ

The base idea of this software is to create an automatic party-VJ machine, where the visual is the dancing crowd itself. All participants can have their own unique virtual suite, as long as their dance in the view of the camera.

Zen-Hero

This is a hybrid (skill, logic, stamina) game. The goal is to collect the more points within the given time period. You can achieve points by collecting ball is a basket and feed them to the dragon. The more points a ball counts the more you collected in the basket. It is highly recommended to avoid black balls, since they are killing anything they touch.

Extra thanks for the graphics to Janos Gardos.

silhouette mirror

I've created this piece for a children's fesival, as an interactive paraphrase of a play called Negativ Variete. The installation encourage the audiance to play in a creative way, use their body as a tool of creation, move, run, jump, and make loud noises.

Here is a short video:

Created with Openframeworks / OpenNi

kinect game for christmas

I made this small game for christmas to the child members of my family, but it turned out that the older generation also loves it.
I've used a kinect camera and an open source (OpenNi) framework to idetify and separate players. Each player has a uique sound when they hit a show-flake, so the more poeple play, the more complex the music becomes.

This is what the software "sees" through the kinects eye:

you can download the windows version from here:
download snow bells for windows
but first you must install the kinect drivers for windows:
download kinect driver click downloads and run SensorKinect-Win32-.....exe from the "Bin" folder.

pac-man-wall

This game is a 2D phisics based pac-man clone, which can be projected onto any surface. At the beginning you have to map the obstacles manually, so you must chose your surface accordingly. The game is played by one player using a wii-mote.

(photo by: anna schwelung)

Here is a short video grabbed from the screen

This is the editor part:

(also you can set the starting position of you pac-man, an the other graphical elements like scores, game-over etc...)

And some screenshots of the gameplay:

I'm still waiting for the recording from the street where it took place.

space painter

The goal of this project was to create a software wich can help people to enhance physical and mental capabilities like orientation, coordination, stamina and memory.

SpacePainter is an application for the space-scan interface. The users are able to paint a large, three dimensional virtual sculpture-like painting. By holding the plexi-glass horizontally, rotate it left or right, the user can access three different program modes: paint, erase, zoom.

Here is a screenshot from the tracking part of the software. The app tracks the position and calculates the rotation of the two paralal lines placed on the plexi-glass.

Android Painter

This is my first sketch on android operating system. I've used processing for android (http://android.processing.org) which is a very simple to use android "SDK". You just hit run, and it runs on your attached device :)

You can draw in two modes (draw or throw), every time you touch the screen a new colos scheme is generated. The screen is slowly fading in a paper like pattern.

Binned Particle System

Optimized particle system with collision detection.
My Processing version is a port of Kyle McDonald C++ code (made for openfrmeworks)
The particle are trying to keep distace from each other, while a force is attracting them to the middle of the sceen.

As the result of these rules applied on 3000 particles, very nice, natural looking patterns can appear.

Click and draw with the mouse!

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Source code: binned_particle_system_test Particle ParticleSystem

Built with Processing

physics based animation framework

The goal of this project was to create a software framework, which can generate phisics based audio-reactive animations.Here are some stills from the generated sequences.

Forgive me about the music (it was made for a tv show :-))

audio/visual games

This project was a three room installation for a press-award event. All the installations were interactive music games for the audiance to play with.

1.: Mozart room - a camera is tracking the horizontal movements of the people. The audio and the visual are generated in real time reacting to the motion of the visitors.

2.: Midi piano - in this room, there is an acoustic midi piano which can receive MIDI signals form a computer. A custom made software is transforming the visual information into MIDI music motes, so the visitors are able to play the piano using body gestures.

3.: Noise room - in this real-time video montage people are placed into a crouded indian street. The space is devided to several recangular zones, and when a person enters into one, it playes a sound sample from a database.

All the installations are based on custom build softwares made with openframeowrkd and PureData.