Description:
Dreamwalker is a human-graphics interactive dance performance which aims to explore if computer graphics can replace a human in a duet. My experiences as both an IMA student and a dancer inspired her to observe the similarities between human movement and computer graphics.
This piece applies four different interactions using three different projectors to create the illusion of someone you lost in the past coming back to you in a dream.
The interaction between a human body and a virtual body also intends to make the audience consider: how can you tell if something is real or no?
Visuals:
For the visual part, I used the concept of nature of code to make it. It starts with dots moving around. When the wakes up, the graphics get the awareness and begin to have shapes and finally grow into a human being.
Non-human visuals:
I used autonomous agents and flow field to create non-human shapes. With a Kinect, when the dancer moves to the ground, the graphics will follow her. I also used sin and cos functions to mimic the movement of legs.
Human Shapes:
I used motion capture to capture the movements and use noise to draw the human skeleton shapes. I also played with opacity when the visual dancer turns.
Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aEQu5dnVH2e_3doHIWDBPLQejHqynlH24GERCwZAfPE/edit?usp=sharing
Final Video Documentation: