Design of Unusual Media

Digital Puppetry, a project I collaborated on with artist Tine Papendick and all-around digital genius Rory Solomon on, is now on display at Eyebeam Atelier, in Chelsea through August 9 as part of the Interactivos exhibition.

The project uses Computer Vision with OpenCV to allow viewers to attach digital accessories to their images in real-time.

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Phlock is an interactive installation that allows viewers to sequence sounds and create music using the emergent behavior of digital creatures.

Phlock is on display at the Chelsea Art Museum until June 8, 2008

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Built an applet for testing out the character art for the Augmented Dart Game project. This allows the cells to morph and move around specified joints and armatures, while retaining their hand-drawn aesthetic.

I was coding in a tail made out of circles from 2 to 0.1 radius (was trying to make them look like sperm since I think the new game name will be Fertile Ground), when all of a sudden, the boids came out looking like ghosts. Having two body segments that have connective tissue looks extremely expressive, and pulls the feeling away from single-celled organisms. Trying to figure out a game narrative that takes a critical look at conception. Something to do with intelligent design?

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The current Dart Game software in openframeworks.

list of features and outstanding things after the jump.

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Managed to get Theo Watson's Vector Field example up and running...

This is important as it will allow the digital creatures in my thesis game to stay within level boundaries that I define. The dart throws will modify the vector field, coaxing them to move out of bounds, which kills their asses.

Vector fields are how I can get the little digital creatures in my game to avoid walls and darts more intelligently. While the gravitational algorithms I'm using are great, they are somewhat limited in terms of how I can get creatures to avoid complex objects.

Enter vector fields:

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