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Archive for June, 2008

Garden Lights - Water Light Test - “Disabled Is Abled”

Slightly posed fairy lights in the garden of the rather lovely and very eccentric Bom-Banes restaurant on George Street, Brighton:

Testing out the water light we’re going to be using for the Boy & Dolphin statue:

At a private view in the HQ gallery in Lewes, I noticed this fantastic message on the street below - “Disabled [...]

Statues Alive: Boy & Dolphin Diorama

While generally my focus is on projections, there are certain challenges with the Statues Alive project that have spilled over into adding physical modifications to the sculpture space.
The primary challenge is that most of the statues we are projecting on are made of dark material that certainly doesn’t make for an ideal surface.
Early on we [...]

Statues Alive: Time-lapse video demo


Another Test Image

Clocking off for the day.  Have added the GUI controls, the ability to reset the background accumulator, and it saves out images every ten seconds.  Just need to entice a few more optimisation’s out of the code and then add the full screen mode for presentation.  Will perhaps use OpenGL…

First image from Statues Alive software

This rather “artsy” image is the first realisation from the software I’m developing for the Statues Alive event in a couple of weeks.  It’s using live video input and a whole bunch of motion difference techniques.  The idea is that the longer you stand still in front of the camera, the more your image [...]

Pixel Vector Test

Testing out pixel vectors (using Sobel edge detection)