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3D Mapping A Body Digitally, In Real Time

Fascinating visual experiments with the Kinect from Robert Hodgin, aka Flight 404.

The Kinect is becoming a multi-purpose gesture recognition tool, and in these early playful days of unofficial research and development, innovative coders and hackers are changing the way we see our physical selves using the Kinect’s motion technology. Artist Robert Hodgin, also known as Flight404, has been experimenting with Kinect using Processing and Cinder (The Barbarian Group's C++ framework) and come up with some fascinating results that map the human body in real time. An example of this is Projection—a stunning demo of how a body moving in space can be viewed digitally by a virtual arrangement of points.

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And this is just the beginning, it’ll be interesting to note how these advances will be incorporated by artists into their future work. But for now, check out some of Hodgin’s Kinect experiments below and go spend some time on his Vimeo page for more of his engrossing, code-based art projects.

Projection

Invisibility

Temporal Echo

[via Creative Applications]