Interactive installation at the Carnegie Museum of Art for the Hillman Photography Initiative. Allows you to spin through a 360 dynamic time lapse.
Image courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. Photo by Bryan Conley.
The Light Clock is actually comprised of two main components:
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The curious clock itself (outside the museum), which conveys the passing of time through a continuously swooping solitary hand. This hand makes a rotation every 5 minutes and each time it gets to the top, the clock captures a 360º image of the museum plaza. It will do this 24/7 for 15 months, resulting in hundreds of thousands of images. Every one of these images is instantly sent inside the museum to…
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An interactive visualization (in the museum lobby) that remixes the captured imagery into a participatory experience for museum visitors. We’ve installed several large displays and an interaction zone, where visitors physically spin their bodies to control their point-of-view (spinning left) as time continually spins itself.
Full process write up. process video.
- ubuntu 16.04
- Mac os 10.11
- openFrameworks version 9.2. Here are the openFrameworks install instructions.
- ofxGui
- ofxOpenCv
- ofxEasing
- ofxCameraSaveLoad
- ofxOpticalFlowFarneback
- ofxV4L2Settings
- ofxCsv
- ofxGoogleAnalytics
- ofxSimpleHttp
- usb camera to sense the rotation for the optical flow.