'Noise Ink' is a pseudo 2D fluid/ink animation system which responds to body movement via a Kinect camera. A combination of optical flow and perlin noise control the visuals.
Project page with more information: http://behance.net/gallery/Noise-Ink-body-reactive-installation/1244325
Setup video: http://vimeo.com/21691884
A version of 'Noise Ink' was recently used at the Auckland Arts Festival: http://vimeo.com/21620801
- Daniel Shiffman for the openkinect libraries (https://github.com/shiffman/libfreenect/tree/master/wrappers/java/processing) and nature of code tutorials (http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/).
- Generative Gestaltung (http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/) for perlin noise articles.
- Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (http://www.patriciogonzalezvivo.com) & Hidetoshi Shimodaira (shimo@is.titech.ac.jp) for Optical Flow example (http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=10435).
- Memotv (http://www.memo.tv/msafluid_for_processing) for inspiration.
-Trent Brooks