3D lovers will always have a special place in their hearts for the red and blue. Photo (CC) Zach Manchester. It’s time to enter a new dimension …the third dimension. With 3D engines easily able to handle multiple cameras, inexpensive systems for head tracking, and the growing ubiquity of not only red/blue stereoscopic glasses but […]

No, you’re not misreading that headline – it’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s a dog with a mini projector (and in some cases, a camera, apparently) strapped to his back. I’m not exactly sure this is something I would choose to do with a dog, but video artist Fernando Llanos says the animal is […]

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo. Perhaps it means nothing for the practical art of architecture, but clever projection on buildings is making our Neo-Baroque (or perhaps Neo-Roccoco) age even more in touch with illusion and manipulations of scale. This brilliant pre-rendered work adds to the work we’ve been following here […]

As inspired by mememamo‘s Visual Space Music, I bought some Ikea Saxan curtains last year for DIY rear-projection experiments. Initially these were used for a series of pixel-cloud shaped screens at the Game On opening night. The Saxan curtains (US$4) were great for this kind of shaped, temporary screen. The white PEVA material is bright […]

Experimenting in the projection lab; photo: hc gilje. videoprojectiontools, the powerful and intuitive Max/MSP/Jitter-developed Mac and Windows tools for projection mapping, just got a nice update. The new version has OpenSoundControl (OSC) support – and yes, despite the “Sound” in the acronym, it’s really more like Open … Control. Max is not required to use […]

Wooster Collective said it: Every Once In A While, Brands Get It Right (This Is One Of Those Times) An inventive, tight use of projection mapping. There’s so much going on, it’s like watching a happy version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Puma Lift. from CCW – Lab on Vimeo. Ok, so it’s […]

vellum | slices of a virtual sculpture | seoul | 2009 from 2minds on Vimeo. Our Modernist and Post-Modernist towers of capital are familiar sights. I live here in the shadow of the Chase Manhattan Building and across the street from an IM Pei block. But the magical thing about projection is the way in […]

Aside from cool aesthetic effects, projection mapping (mapping projection precisely onto real-world objects) and augmented reality (what you get when you add digital projections to your reality) can be useful. So, while we’ve already seen plenty of projections on walls and floors, this is a projection on a climbing wall. It might seem silly, but […]

Projection tools in the wild: relief projection lab at Bit Teatergarasjen; photo (CC) hc gilje. Projection mapping has been a running theme here, as visualists are dying to get their projections onto objects other than flat walls. If you’re ready to experiment and develop new material but have been intimidated by figuring out how to […]

Let’s back up for a second. You hear terms like “spatially augmented reality” or “projection mapping,” and it may seem as though you’ve wound up in the latest movie adaptation of a Philip Dick sci fi short story. When we talk about these terms, we really mean one thing: getting projection off of flat, rectangular […]