Category Archives: Chang Liu

Note Constellation

Rubin Huang, Chang Liu

Note Constellation is an interactive installation that provide an immersive environment to audiences, and it allows audiences use their fingers to draw note in the screen as draw a series of constellation in the sky .

http://www.rubinhuang.com/blog/?p=172

Description

Note Constellation is an interactive sound installation that allows people draw nebula in the ceiling screen and make a music note simultaneously.
Note Constellation is an interactive installation that provide an immersive environment to audiences, and it allows audiences use their fingers to draw note in the screen as draw a series of constellation in the sky . People could engage in this interaction process in terms of sound and visual part. People stand under a ceiling screen, and they look up at the starlit sky. When they intuitively point to the sky, they will automatically draw an element of constellation, and make a of note. When they finish draw a complete constellation, they simultaneously get a customized melody that composed by themselves.
We are inspired by the movie 《A Beautiful Mind》, protagonist John make a romantic scene for his lover Alicia Nash. In the movie, he hold her hand and point to sky, and they start to draw a series of beautiful constellation stars. It’s also a metaphor to represent the distance between human and galaxy. In the reality, we can not reach the distant galaxy, we even can not clearly see the constellation. We try to realize the romantic scene from the movie 《A Beautiful Mind》in our interactive work, and provide an experience for audiences to let them have a dynamic conversion between Tonze and themselves.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Physical Computing

Wild Growth

Chang Liu

"Wild Growth" is a generative portrait drawing artwork that allows people stand in front of web-camera and see their artistic portraits form as growth of natural plants.

http://www.liuchangitp.com/icm_pixel-project/

Description

This is a playful interactive project which is an interactive processing that generating a drawing by analyzing live video. My inspiration is jackson pollock. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. In term of technological part, I use Processing as my tool. I combined two parts which are camera analyzing system and visual part(particles system). All the colors is be picked by live camera “eye”. That means what it sees, and what it draws. It reminds me to take my computer go to natural environment, or face to a picture or a video, or put in front of a viewer as if draw a quick portrait paint. Therefore, I take it to somewhere and get those random screen still pictures.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media