Unfold’s Digital Laser Pottery Wheel
Unfold & Tim Knapen – L’Artisan Electronique from Kunst in Limburg on Vimeo.
Awesome. The amazing Unfold has come up with a contraption that lets folks sculpt virtual pottery! Very cool!
For L’Artisan Electronique, Unfold created -aside from the ceramic printer- a virtual pottery wheel in collaboration with Tim Knapen. This pottery wheel gives visitors a chance to ‘turn’ their own forms. Every time a visitor presses “Save” on the arcade buttons, the creation is saved to disk and displayed on the wall. At regular intervals, a selection of these designs is printed in clay using a modified REPRAP machine and exhibited in the space.
The virtual pottery interface uses openFrameworks with openCV to track visitors’ hand positions in the air. There are two parts to the scan, one being the green laser projecting lines onto the hand and camera recording the deformations to the line created by the hand. The curvature recorded is used as a cylinder deformer.
Beautiful! Via Creative Applications Also check out Unfold’s blog!
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