Kinect Pixel Mirror

This installation use Kinect to turn real human into pixel. A clever implementation as it avoided showing off kinect weakness but highlighted the strength. 1670870-inline-iris-interaction-04 1670870-slide-iris-interaction-02 More reading can be found here:
  • http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670870/this-giant-interactive-mirror-turns-viewers-into-pixels
  • http://www.hybe.org/site/
  • http://designyoutrust.com/2012/09/wow-new-kind-media-canvas-with-matrix-of-transmissive-of-monochrome-lcd-display-in-video-also/
Perhaps a animated gif can present the idea better. Iris-by-Hybe-3 However, Hybe is not the only one doing thing like this. There are many other attempts: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/interactive-mirrors-built-from-arrays-of-moving-objects-by-daniel-rozin/ Here is my version of it, done using processing with screen base display. Havent have time to draw the grid yet, and i use icon from font-awesome for the representation. 20140913_200628 and here is a short video: