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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.

Liquid Image

This is a simple spring simulation. I've created a grid of springs, and to each joint points I attached the corresponding points of an image. We tested it on a multitouch table, so you could play with multiple fingers.

You can try this applet by pressing and moving the mouse over the image below. (to try this you need Java to be installed)

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Download the processing source code here: LiquidImage Node Spring

Flow

Flow is a physics based image synthesizer. It's based on the simulation of particle flow in different force fields. Each particle leaves trails on the canvas. By changing some parameters of the system it can create vast variety of color compositions.

You can download the "mini" version of the software from here (windows only).
p.s.: to run the software you will need a videocard that supports OpenGL 1.1.

Beat-Box

The "language" of the instrument is based on three very simple building blocks: triggers, boxes, strings. These can form complex structures due to physical parameters on the surface (friction, gravity, forces, collision, etc). Sudden, unpredictable events arise, which gains improvisation, free play and gestural expression for the user.

As for other systems (textual, visual languages), physical position (x,y) of the building blocks usually don't affect the composition itself. Topology of objects are mostly based on usage issues and ergonomic goals. Here instead, on the fly placement of the objects define the whole structure and becomes the "resonating body" of the instrument, creating a playground between multiple users, a virtual kinetic surface and the sounds coming out of it.

Download a simplified version for:
Mac OSX
Windows

By pressing the mouse you can chose from these items.

When a ball hits an object it generates sound. The pitch of the sound depends on the length of the object. As the ball travells it looses its strength so as its volume.

You can clear the objects by dragging them outside of the window. Pressing the mouse button here and selecting clear will clear all the objects.

Future plans:
- multiple sound samples
- allow to record samples from the mic (making real live acts)
- creating your own node by group an existing composition, so you can organise you scene easily.

Rigid-bodies

This is a test for using Box2D for simulating realistic body motion. It is planned to use in the next version of Animata (animata.kibu.hu).