Teddy Bear Vision was inspired by an early neuroscience experiment (Marr & Nishihara, Phil Trans R Soc Lond B, 275: 483, 1976) in which the visual system’s processing of orientation selectivity was mapped out @ contrast borders’ location. Here is an image from the original experiment: In my project, I ran with the quirky teddy bear [...]

The early visual system is designed to detect contrast borders. For my project, I would like to use simple contrast borders detection to derive the location where new geometric forms will originate. It will be as if there are small organisms growing at the edges, deforming the original image with its fungal-like structure. The sensors will [...]

For the second part of Assignment 4, I expanded the capabilities of my multi-sensor finger-VJ sleeve. In part 1, fingers sensors changed the background color behind 1 growing circle animation. In part 2, touching fingers start and stop multiple animations, which are related thematically, and can overlap each-other. The result is more dynamic and connected. See [...]

In implementing a multiple switch system this week, I departed from the finger light painting tablet idea, and decided instead, to simply it by having the painting instrument be just the fingers. Inspired by hand-bells & sign language, touching the fingers together triggers different backgrounds on the simple animation. See below. I intended for the wires [...]

The inspiration for the simple sensor arose from the idea of finger painting with light. Wearing a glove, one slides their hand over a metal plate, effecting the configuration of colors on an LED light board. The realized version is the most basic model. It could be seen as a variation on a Lite Brite. I [...]

Basic DIY bio-feedback system to monitor heart rate (pulse) on an oscillator display A more sophisticated iteration of this basic design for a proposed “bioluminance project” by Mark Pierce In addition to monitoring pulse, adds eeg neurofeedback brain wave data to the input + Adds modulators to translate input data into a variety of visual effects [...]