An iPhone adaptation of this installation can be found here.

Recently "Gold" was selected to be shown at the Tent London exhibition as part of the London Design Festival. Below are a few photos from this exhibit, video from the same exhibit coming soon.

The video below is a demo of the visualization.

“Gold” is an interactive installation which explores our obsession with super-stardom, and the extravagance that accompanies it. Through a ‘magic mirror’, revel in a world of excess where you are the super-star. Shower in glittery gold, experience almost omnipotent powers as you materialize, morph and dematerialize into pure sparkling gold dust. Immortalize yourself as a shimmering golden statue, before you collapse and fade away.

You can download a PDF with information on the installation here.

Technical Information

The installation uses custom software written with C++ / openFrameworks and the open-source OpenCV computer vision library. The software analyzes the video feed from infra-red cameras in real-time and generates 1080p HD output using OpenGL and also creates an interactive soundtrack based on the motion. A lot of the technology developed for the installation has been released as open-source (see http://memo.tv/tags/open_source).
The installation is designed to be scalable and can be output over multiple screens or projectors to create an interactive area of any size.

Source code for the particle system in this demo (minus the fancy effects) can be found at http://memo.tv/vertex_arrays_vbos_and_point_sprites_with_openframeworks This demonstrates how to use VBOs, Vertex Arrays and Point Sprites.

Made with openFrameworks.