This is the final project for my pComp I class. The initial idea was to create a light illusion inside a gate, however in the proposal the gate was only around 2 feet high or lower. After the review in class, I decide to make this an art installation in my locker and make it interactive.
The final concept was two use several boards, and place light strip on all edges. By manipulating the lightness of each edges, the light should create an illusion that the space is shifting with the movement of the audience. During the making process the broads were being limited in 2, but still delivered decent effect. The biggest problem when doing this project was communication.
Sending values from Arduino to openFrameworks was easy, but the protocol didn't support the other way that well(or I haven't found the best way). It took me a long time to make the Arduino board to no only separate the serial value but also find the head of the string. The face detection was done in with ofxfacetracker. To have the best result, the tracking point was set to the center of nose.
openFrameworks x Arduino
by Luobin Wang, Haotian Li