Saturday, March 31, 2007

A Still Life - a temporal document affected by activity


Frank, this is the project that reminds me of what you were talking about yesterday - the interaction and movements of people adjust the quality of the table, in this case creating a layered document of the activity occuring "sur la table" a kind of "still life" as Osman Khan puts it.


"A camera is placed above the table, capturing events occurring on/over the table, which are sent to a computer, where customized software processes the image, so that non-white objects visually appear to stream their color down. This processed image is then projected back onto the table. Thus, a historic timeline of events over the table is visualized as a continuous flow of images down the table."


This might be of interest also to Whitlock and maybe to Matt and Ben. Check it out at http://www.osmankhan.com/surlatable/index.html There is a video too.

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