Risveglio · self-made interactive carpet
The Risveglio installation was made within the framework of a research project started in september 2005 at NextMedia Lab. Risveglio was designed with the scope of developing interactive video solutions.
The visual part shows an interactive flower that follows the movement of butterflies flying all around it. Every butterfly represents somebody actually moving in the room.
The flower was built and animated frame-by-frame (more than 500 pics) to create the interactive stop motion material.
Rough-sketch to specify the input system, based on people moving in the room. The position of the viewer in relation to the screen determines the position of the butterflies.
The input system was designed as a "sensor layer" that can easily be hidden under a fitted carpet. It's made of 64 pressure-sensitive zones, allowing to precisely locate people walking on it.
The carpet is connected to the computer thanks to a specially designed electronic/MIDI interface. The interactive video is calculated in real time, according to the movement of people across the carpet.
A functional prototype was built and tried out in the Nextmedia Lab showroom in march 2006. Check out a video of the work process or a short screenshot video.
→ special thanks to nextmedia lab, milan 2006.
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