Atomizing Thom's virtual copy

This blog entry was posted by peter on July 17, 2008.

It is tagged with Fraunhofer, heyewall, IGD, instantreality, music, particles, Radiohead, and X3D.

So far there are 3 comments. Feel free to add one.

The previous entry chronologically is Converting Radiohead's HOUSE OF CARDS laser data to X3D.

As a follow-up to the previous post about remixing the point data of Radiohead’s “House of Cards”, here’s an application which enables you to shoot, melt and reemerge Thom’s head in realtime and stereo. We call it “atomizing Thom”.

Here’s a picture of the various states:

And here’s a video of the application in action displayed on IGD’s heyewall2.0:

You can find more videos and images on Michael Zöllner’s blog or the YouTube “House of Cards” group (check for igeedee).

How we did it

  1. Converted the csv data to X3D (the Python script for converting the csv data to X3D can now be found on GoogleCode). 
  2. Put the points into a particle set.
  3. Apply crazy effects to particle set.

I will release the source code of the X3D file next week, so stay tuned.

Update

Here’s a video grabbed with xvidcap while interactively playing with the particle set. You can now shoot, melt, vortex and reemerge Thom’s virtual head.

Comments

analogrepresent said on July 21, 2008

this is pretty ridiculous. but is this the same display techniques i saw exemplified in the i-phone video of yorke's head? that appeard to be some sort of projection.

Tommy said on July 21, 2008

This is pretty neat.

peschler said on July 21, 2008

@analogrepresent:
The atomizer video above and the i-phone video both use the instantplayer X3D browser/framework from http://www.instantreality.org/.

The atomizer uses just one frame of the dataset and you can manipulate it interactively.

The i-phone video uses instantplayer and instantvision to augment the whole animated dataset over a realtime video capture. This is explained here: http://i.document.m05.de/?p=505
If you own some see-through AR glasses, you can see the head augmented over a physical i-phone.

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