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Night Lights

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:22:29 +0000

Description

This is a project done in collaboration with YesYesNo. The goal was to turn the historic Ferry Building in downtown Auckland New Zealand into a giant interactive playground.

We used 3 different types of interaction – body interaction on the two stages, hand interaction above a light table, and phone interaction with the tracking of waving phones. There were 6 scenes, cycled every hour for the public. The whole experience lasted 6 nights.

Monsters

The monster scene was a full body interaction – as people danced in front of light boxes their contours would magically transform into a playful monster. As groups of people came together they created giant monsters. see more monsters here

Ferns

This scene is another full body interaction – as people made growing gestures a fern would spawn from their contour. Throughout the scene colorful butterflies would flock toward peoples bellies.

Paint

This scene allowed people to finger paint on the entire building.

Constellations

This scene generated large constellations from the motion of people’s cellphones. The more movement people made caused stars to spill from the building.

Photos

Credits

Interaction Design and Software: YesYesNo Joel Gethin Lewis, Zach Lieberman, Pete Hellicar, Kyle McDonald, Todd Vanderlin w/ Daito Manabe sound design

Projection / Staging: Electric Canvas, Inside Out Productions. Production: The Church, Simon Velvin. Production & Art Direction: Hellicar and Lewis

Thanks to NZ Telecom and the Auckland City Council for supporting this, Peter Milne and all the Team, Simon Velvin and all at the Church, Mike Mizrahi, Marie Adams and all at Inside Out Productions, and Takayuki Ito.

Projection Wall at Arnold

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:28:15 +0000

We got a new conference room at Arnold with an amazing projection wall. I could not wait to get in there and play. The wall is a very funny aspect ratio so I had to do some funny openGL business to compensate. There are two HD projectors 16:9 with a blended seam in the middle. I needed to figure out the gap and the actual pixel size of the wall to get it to work. Check out some little test I did, can’t wait to make something later.

City On Fire

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:37:53 +0000

City on Fire is a site specific installation created by the Danish artist Thyra Hilden and the Argentinian artist Pio Diaz.

Next Festtive

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:33:40 +0000

I saw some of the future this weekend. Photos

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:39:08 +0000

This is amazing, the future of screen interaction. Link

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Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:32:51 +0000

“A HREF=WINDOW” the thesis for Evan Roth grad student at Parsons School of Design.

“Friday night I did some more digital projection tests. These videos don’t do justice to how fun it was to see this stuff projected 6 stories high, but if you squint your eyes and use your imagination you can start to get an idea of what it looked like.”

Mouse Clip
Hell Clip
Jesus Clip