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Creatures Screensaver
Mon, 01/09/2012 - 23:07 — marek
Here's the screensaver version of one of the installations I did at the Glenfiddich One Day You Will Summit. It's a camera toy that has different types of fish swimming around, which you can interact with through your webcam.
To install, unzip it, and double click the resulting file. It should work for most modern mac laptops and iMacs with Mac OS 10.6 or higher installed. Please let me know if it doesn't work!
To get it to work as a screensaver, I had to compile openframeworks in 64bit, which you can find here.
Coke 24hr Music
Mon, 11/21/2011 - 09:18 — marekEarlier this year, I worked with Hellicar and Lewis to create an interactive experience for Maroon 5, the band, in the studio that allowed them to interact with fans Tweets in real time as they spent 24 hours writing a song. The whole event was streamed over the internet and had millions of viewers from all over the world. The project was a collaboration between H+L, Nexus Productions, Wieden+Kennedy, Frukt, and Lexus PR.
It was a projection mapping onto a low-poly iceberg shape that we had CNC cut. We used 2 projectors pointing into the structure, so I had to make some code to do polyonal projector blending.
I also developed some code to use a kinect pointing directly downwards from the ceiling in front of the iceberg that created a sort of 2d touchscreen infront of the iceberg with which the band could interact.
My role was to deal with the projection mapping part of the code and also to write the kinect code for the interaction, as well as bringing the whole system together in the end and be onsite, it was a long night! (although I sneakily went home for a short kip when it went quiet)
Other guys working on the project:
- Joel Gethin Lewis and Pete Hellicar
- Chris Sugrue
- James George
- Josh Nimoy
- Joshua Noble
- Todd Vanderlin
Here's the official coca-cola page of the project.
Swarovski Refract
Thu, 11/03/2011 - 11:23 — marek
This is a music iphone/ipad app I made with Multiadaptor and
Bobby Krlic for Swarovski. It's a program for creating audio-visual compositions.
You make triangles by touching the screen in 3 places. The shape, size and position determines the pitch, volume and tonal quality of the sound, the horizontal distance between each triangle in either direction is related to the interval between the notes. Changing the shape of the triangle blends the sound between different samples.
You can double-tap anywhere to reveal an extras menu that allows you to choose a drum beat, add delay, or atmospheric effects.
Under the hood, it's all openframeworks, and there's a custom audio engine. I started making the engine using libpd but it wasn't fast enough to handle all the sounds playing at once, so I made one losely based on thump.
Another challenge was to fake the anti-aliasing on the iPhone using textures. Luckily I found this method by Philip Rideout, and used it everywhere.
Get the app (for free)
ofxOscilloscope
Wed, 10/26/2011 - 09:31 — marek
Here's a program I made that turns your mac into an oscilloscope, using the audio in or microphone as an input. I take no responsibility for blowing up your computer so please be warned, it's for line level audio signals only!
Get it here!
Speakatron v.2
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 10:49 — marek
This is a long overdue, small update to speakatron, the mini project I did last year that tracks your face and makes a sound when you open your mouth. This new version uses Jason Saragih's awesome FaceTracker, and Dan Wilcox's ofxPd.
Apart from the tracking being much more robust due to Jason's code, I just tweaked the graphics and sugar-coated the sound a bit.
It was shown as part of a bunch of stuff I exhibited at the Glenfiddich "One Day You Will" Pioneers Summit at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland last week.
Get the program here (Mac OS X 10.6+ only).
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