Mortal Myths for Machine Minds

Technology Used
ReacTIVision is a tool-kit for
creating multi-touch surfaces, and
fiducial marker tracking. Fiducial
markers are images designed to
be easily read by computers, and
be attached to objects to create
tangible user interfaces. I am
using ReacTIVision to track the
objects, and interpreting the data
it provides me to create responsive
graphics and sound.
The framework was originally
developed by Martin Kaltenbrunner
and Ross Bencina as the
underlying sensor component of
the Reactable, a tangible modular
synthesizer. By making it open
source they have allowed creators
like myself to use it in other ways.
Creative Coding
Above: This is a fiducial marker.
The rest of the project was built in
the creative coding environment
Processing. This can be thought
of as a “software sketchbook”, and
it is an ideal language for learning
how to code within the context of
the visual arts. In Processing, when
we talk about a “sketch”, we are
talking about a
Right: This is what a processing
sketch looks like whilst in
development.
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