Twines of Displosion
2005 / MERZ AKADEMIE / INSTALLATION / COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN / PROCESSING
People in front of the projection admiring our growing flowers
Popping bubble wrap and creating flowers is fun
Beautiful flowers - screenshot out of the application
The evil swarm - screenshot out of the application
The installation - the camera for tracking is in the lower part of the picture
Laptop sandwhich power!
Camera in the front, bubble wrap with microphone in the back
Applet
You can try the programm as applets in your browser (requires JAVA):
TWINES OF DISPLOSION
Project details
Under the topic Midlife Crisis of Computer Graphics given by Prof. Olia Lialina, students had to research on the development of computer graphics.
Together with my co-student Simone Ganß, I used this opportunity to look upon the possibility to generate graphics by myself with the use of code.
Not being content with the aspect of generating graphics alone, we searched for a method which allowed easy and fun user interaction with our work.
Bubble wrap was our material of choice to get recipients involved, because nearly everyone loves it. With the help of a microphone recipients were able to create flowers along a randomly generated twine by popping bubble wrap.
For an further interactive element we decided to track the projection, so every time somebody walks across in front of it, disturbing the creation of beautiful flowers, the system recognizes it and a swarm appears, devouring everything until heavy bubble wrap popping dispels it.