Mirror Darkly - an Interactive kinetic type project
The above video is mediation of a project called Mirror Darkly, that was created for Light Night, in Leeds - which was shown at Leeds College of Art. This project brought together investigations with the Microsoft Kinect and Processing, in creating a Poem that could be walked through. Using the kinect processing library created by Daniel Shiffman, http://shiffman.net/p5/kinect/ , the point cloud depth data was assigned words from the final stanza of a poem called 'The Other Side of the Mirror' by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. "Shade of a shadow in the glass, O set the crystal surface free! Pass – as the fairer visions pass – Nor ever more return, to be The ghost of a distracted hour, That heard me whisper, "I am she!" A slight randomisation of size and offset at each point of detection, allowed the image to have a bit of lively dance, as well as randomly shifting between level of detail of the scan, which would occasionally allow a sense of the form to be seen. ...