Eternal dancefloors, dance visualization with Kinect
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7 months ago
Hi all,
I'd like to share a recent project we made with a colleague. It's basically a visualization of mocap data of dance moves, captured with Kinect. It goes like that: a dancer enters Kinect's field of vision and is instantly recognized (no "Psi" pose) thanks to excellent Kinect library SimpleOpenNI 0.27. Computer records a short data clip (10s) while visualizing the whole thing along with previously recorded dancers. After recording, the "dancer" is placed on the dancefloor, and computer waits for another person to recognize and record. While idle, it shows animated virtual dancefloor with so far recorded dancers.
I have to thank the Processing team and authors of GLGraphics, Proscene and SimpleOpenNI, among others.
Video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeHU2DQHXRc
Other videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOVNyPxCcPs (recorded with phone, low quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXmSJpmtwI (prototype animaion)
More on blog - mostly in Slovenian language, but there is excerpt from project documentation in English:
http://virostatiq.blogspot.com/2013/03/projekt-vecna-plesisca.html
The project was among pre-selected projects in previous year's Robots and Avatars: http://www.robotsandavatars.net/events/call-for-proposals/pre-selected-projects/ under a different name: "1st Stage Preparations for a Taxidermic Afterlife Party".
The "philosophy" (it's a joke):
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First installment of "Stuffed Afterlife Party", a project to live eternally on a dancefloor by first capturing one's dance moves, them uploading them to a robotic skeleton and implanting the skeleton into one's stuffed body after death.
This was a test installment to record as many visitors as we could. A visitors enters the 3D sensor's field of vision, records ten seconds' worth of dance moves, then the recording is animated on a virtual dancefloor with recordings of previous visitors, dancing together into eternity.
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First shown on MED // Maribor Electronic Days, February 15, 2013.
Organized by Kibla, Maribor.
Best,
Marko
I'd like to share a recent project we made with a colleague. It's basically a visualization of mocap data of dance moves, captured with Kinect. It goes like that: a dancer enters Kinect's field of vision and is instantly recognized (no "Psi" pose) thanks to excellent Kinect library SimpleOpenNI 0.27. Computer records a short data clip (10s) while visualizing the whole thing along with previously recorded dancers. After recording, the "dancer" is placed on the dancefloor, and computer waits for another person to recognize and record. While idle, it shows animated virtual dancefloor with so far recorded dancers.
I have to thank the Processing team and authors of GLGraphics, Proscene and SimpleOpenNI, among others.
Video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeHU2DQHXRc
Other videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOVNyPxCcPs (recorded with phone, low quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXmSJpmtwI (prototype animaion)
More on blog - mostly in Slovenian language, but there is excerpt from project documentation in English:
http://virostatiq.blogspot.com/2013/03/projekt-vecna-plesisca.html
The project was among pre-selected projects in previous year's Robots and Avatars: http://www.robotsandavatars.net/events/call-for-proposals/pre-selected-projects/ under a different name: "1st Stage Preparations for a Taxidermic Afterlife Party".
The "philosophy" (it's a joke):
---------------------
First installment of "Stuffed Afterlife Party", a project to live eternally on a dancefloor by first capturing one's dance moves, them uploading them to a robotic skeleton and implanting the skeleton into one's stuffed body after death.
This was a test installment to record as many visitors as we could. A visitors enters the 3D sensor's field of vision, records ten seconds' worth of dance moves, then the recording is animated on a virtual dancefloor with recordings of previous visitors, dancing together into eternity.
---------------------
First shown on MED // Maribor Electronic Days, February 15, 2013.
Organized by Kibla, Maribor.
Best,
Marko