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Posted April 18th 2010 under Augmented Reality, Installations
Grazing Jellies is an augmented reality project by Hudson Powell, commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices festival (previously in Liverpool, this time in the Lake District, North West England).
A screen set in the forest provides a real time portal into a virtual world of hidden jelly/slug like creatures. The creatures react to movement, from the trees or people, going off to sniff out whats happening. When passers by make a noise in front of the screen, the creatures come up close to investigate.
The software was created in openFrameworks by programmers Neil Mendoza and Victor Martins. Although site specific to this forest, the scene builder allows them to construct the environment on site, from creating polygon obstacles to positioning the virtual camera to match the webcam (shown below).
The music & sound was created by Jean-Gabriel Becker. There is a backing soundtrack, and then each slug has a track in its head that gets louder as it gets closer to the screen.
Some videos on the development blog.
(also on Wired)
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