Inspiration
We love art. We want to explore new way of creating art work. Normally, arts are created with motions of hand on the tool of brush; in our case, they are created with motions of hand on tool of technology.
How it works
By collecting thousands of finger positions through leap motion we are able to make a graph out of that. Then through hand velocity and gestures we can manipulate its position and forms. Finally we should able to 3D print it.
Challenges I ran into
1, Leap Motion library is not well supported by processing. 2, Oculus Rift can't work well with Processing, the language we use to create the project. 3, It's very hard to think of a proper way to influence the graphics since many ways are too complicated and need some high-end mathematical algorithm.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
1, We successfully generated a great-looking graph just by waving our hand above leap motion. 2, We created a physical-vivid moving mechanism. We model every point as a point with mass(every point has different mass), and use hand velocity to determine the force acting on those points, so the reaction of the graphics to the hand wave is very much like real world. 3, We can rotate and scale the graph using hand gesture.
What I learned
1, Processing language - very cool and easy to use, very good to create generative art, beside some weird behaviors is very annoying. This is my first time using it. 2, Leap motion - Very cool, beside poor support to processing. This is also my first time using it. 3, The algorithm to mimic movement in real world. It's FUN!
What's next for generateYOU
Some more sophisticated algorithm to change the form of graphics. 3D print the work.
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