The general focus of the articles contained in the site are on interactive installations, aesthetics through computation, reactive experiments, creative computer vision, et cetera. http://www.setpixel.com/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:07:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.setpixel.com/gfx/logo.gif http://www.setpixel.com http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=waterfall

A new children's hospital contracted some visual displays to be built. The lobby of the hospital is very open and white, lit by phasing colors on the arced ceilings and walls. To the left is a very thin waterfall running over a display. The thought was th...]]> Charles Forman Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:12:30 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=regaze

Re-Gaze is an installation art work that explores this relationship between vision and technology. In developing the work, I wanted to create an engaging interactive and unique visual experience that was revealing about the process of seeing. In the insta...]]> Chris Sugrue Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:15:45 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=shadowstory

Shadow Story allows children to physically play with sketches that they created. Shadow Story is a projection-based interactive installation. Children cast shadows on the wall using their bodies to interact with the elements in the visual projection. Ther...]]> Charles Forman Sat, 07 May 2005 09:41:00 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=smarttransitions

How could it be possible to make the computer understand which points to select?" In a very advanced level, thanks to computer-vision, it is for sure possible, using a sort of shape recognition, finding common shapes between the two images....]]> Christian Giordano Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:05:08 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=ghostlymirror

Untitled Mirror is a Processing based program that reads incoming video from a camera and triggers particles from points of the video frame that have changed by a certain level. The result is an image that is fairly representative, yet disappears within m...]]> Cristobal Mendoza Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:26:38 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=robotmirror

If we show a video on screen, we are displaying the passage of time. If we mount a camera above the screen, we can measure local brightness (light) in the form of a black and white image. As the camera is pointed outwards, the viewers provide the brightne...]]> Glen Murphy Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:37:14 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=twothingsdotone

The user starts moving the brush on a projection of an outline-only draw. an object follows the tracked image of the brush, and paints on an image object's mask, revealing the image's content and overlaying it to the outline image. this creates an e...]]> Ubi De Feo Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:58:21 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=retrofabulous

A digital image is made up of two dimensional array of different colors. These indivual colors that make up an image are called pixels. Normally, these colors are displayed tightly next to each other. When displayed in the right order, they made up what a...]]> Charles Forman Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:30:19 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=greyworld

We find out what Andrew Shoben from Greyworld thinks about creating art for public spaces, his motivations, the ideas behind the London Stock Exchange installation and their latest work in progress, Bins and Benches....]]> Chris O'Shea Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:43:45 +0100 http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=toolsvsdesign

I think engineered tools have always been seen as extensions of human senses. The human race's ability to extend beyond its physical and mental restrictions is something that has been and will always be celebrated in both commercial and non-commercial cul...]]> Josh Nimoy Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:10:28 +0100