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. A sound reactive version of the sketch was also developed. As an aesthetic, this is a starting point to take further, particularly with making the kinectic camera made more mobile, rather than moving in front of it.