imclab / noise-ink

'Noise Ink' is a pseudo 2D fluid/ink animation system which responds to body movement via a Kinect camera. A combination of optical flow and perlin noise control the visuals.

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'Noise Ink' is a pseudo 2D fluid/ink animation system which responds to body movement via a Kinect camera. A combination of optical flow and perlin noise control the visuals.

Project page with more information: http://behance.net/gallery/Noise-Ink-body-reactive-installation/1244325

Setup video: http://vimeo.com/21691884

A version of 'Noise Ink' was recently used at the Auckland Arts Festival: http://vimeo.com/21620801

Credit

• Daniel Shiffman for the openkinect libraries (https://github.com/shiffman/libfreenect/tree/master/wrappers/java/processing) and nature of code tutorials (http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/).
• Generative Gestaltung (http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/) for perlin noise articles.
• Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (http://www.patriciogonzalezvivo.com) & Hidetoshi Shimodaira ([email protected]) for Optical Flow example (http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=10435).
• Memotv (http://www.memo.tv/msafluid_for_processing) for inspiration.

-Trent Brooks