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Soak, Dye in Light [Processing, Kinect]

“Soak, Dye in light.” by everyware (2011) is an empty canvas but when you touch it, its elastic surface stretches and gets suffused with projected vivid colors mimicking fabric absorbing dye. Poking and rubbing with hands or resting their body on this spandex canvas allows visitors to soak this canvas in virtual dye and create own patterns.

Dying fabric is a time-honored tradition of humankind. Local materials such as herbs, flowers, rocks, juice of animals or shells have been used through the dying process. Especially in Korea, people have deep affection toward the unique colors and textures of fabric dyed with traditional materials. Now in the age of new media, we tried a whole new way of coloring fabrics with the essential materials of new media, ‘light’ and ‘interactivity’. Also, as a meta-creative interactive installation, ‘Soak’ can be expanded for creating garments with personalized patterns or textile productions using today’s digital fabric printing technologies.

Created using Processing and Kinect.

Simulated watercolor by GPU accelerated cellular automata.

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Posted on: 27/09/2011

Posted in: Processing

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  • icq4ever

    nice work :) beautiful.

  • Jens Wunderling

    the kinect sensor is a true blessing, i remember the khronos projector by alvaro cassinelli (http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/) from 2005, with the same sort of 3d/cloth input device. back then: adjusted IR lighting and clever algorithms. today: ebay or amazon :D
    nonetheless: beautiful exeution!

  • http://www.certec.lth.se/personal/henrik_svarrer_larsen/ Henrik Svarrer Larsen

    cool stuff.Along the same lines: http://vimeo.com/31444054 , but for a specific context ie http://sid.desiign.org/ 

  • 992432259

    really beautiful and poetic~!