Beside busy studio hours and other projects, I have recently started teaching again in School of Architecture, CEPT, First year design studio.
Surprisingly, I was recently contacted by Prof. Jignesh Khakhar from NID, who is teaching New Media Design at Gandhinagar campus. I was excited and pleased to join him as a visiting faculty in NMD. I will be teaching embedded computing and tangible interface course for next 1 month. There are total of 15 students from various disciplines, some of them are engineers, programmers, designers and artists.
‘Mooch’ is a small experimental installation project done at 72by3 studio. ‘Mooch’ is built using open CV face detection and processing. A camera detects number of faces in front of it and adds mustache or “mooch” as we call it in Hindi, to each of the faces. First ‘Mooch’ prototype was installed for five days at Amdavad Ni Guffa, art gallery in Ahmedabad, India.
‘Mooch” quickly became popular amongst children, elders and old people. A very quick, funny and engaging interaction made every one smile. Different gestures and expressions were captured through out five days of exhibition.
Results are available at http://72by3.in/mooch
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Mooch is a small experiment i did few weeks earlier with simple processing sketch. A camera detects number of faces in front of it and adds mustache or “mooch” as we call it in India, to each of the faces.
here is the first version prototype of 3d holographic display. there are many things to be improved still, but it is working and i have figured out all small bits and peaces. now it is just question of finding some budget and making it professional.
crucial part for success is the glass, precision in production, screen quality, and exact placement of each elements. it was a challenge to figure out the correct optical alignment.
i have used 3d studio max for making animations. for static display, you will have to use 3 videos captured from 3 different sides. but for animated or rotated animations, you could get away with only one video displayed on 3 sides, and no one will be able to notice it.
i have used autocad drawing for alignment of screen and glass pyramid, this is a tricky part. this was a base drawing on which i used processing to load and play videos and align them accordingly.
BOOM, it is working !!!
processing sketch for video alignment
floating cube
taj mahal model
