Kai-Che Hung, Tong Wu
A project that revivifies and sets free shadow puppets from your childhood memories
http://www.hungkaiche.com/2017/12/06/final-project/
Description
“Flappy Shadow” was inspired by Tong and Kai's memories about playing shadow puppet game before sleep as little kids. It also explores the philosophical relationship of human with their shadow. The project uses Kinect to track users' hand position, and turn the bird shadow made by an user into a flying animated “shadow bird”. It now has successfully let users control the direction and the scale of the animated bird by waving and leaning closer to or farther from the Kinect. The next step will be finishing and optimizing gestures detection to give users more freedom to create and set free the shadow bird.
Classes
Introduction to Computational Media