“ArtFall is a collaboration between Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, in association with Mindshare Labs. ArtFall is an interactive installation that allows visitors to construct a dynamic physical simulation by drawing on a whiteboard. “
ArtFall from eric gradman on Vimeo.
I bumped into this installation during the Brewery Art Walk in April 2009 and after a brief instruction by Eric I was hooked within the first second – what a fun! The squares would also get redirected by your own shadow, how fascinating to see a virtual world behaving and responding to its environment as if it was real. An adaptive system – when you would draw a line in an angle the squares would move down the line as objects in reality would do when facing a similar obstacle. This installation recognizes changes in the environment and adjusts its behavior to it immediately. The rapidity of this self-adjustment is…dare I say it… intelligent? Maybe.
Please visit Mindshare Labs if you liked the Video, there are many more.
Mindshare LA
3rd Thursday of every month. 8:00 PM @ (location varies, check site for updates)
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Well, it is a novel extension of the “line rider” game that was popular last year. Instead of drawing computer graphics to create a level for shapes to react to, it looks like they have a camera set up to grab the image, turn it into a computer graphic, then project the shapes onto the screen in the correct positions. It’s certainly an interesting way to take the concept into the tangible.
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