Reactive Particles

A fun interactive installation for the SVA studio

Reactive Particles Demo

Overview

Reactive particles is an interactive projection which we made to add some creativity to our IxD studio at SVA.

Details
Class Code Literacy
Collaborators Ashley Jang, Wei-Ting Kuo, Scott Cowell


Problem

When you visit a creative place, it always has a particular vibe to it. We found that missing at our IxD studio in SVA.

Our studio entrance at SVA

Our studio entrance at SVA


Design

Reactive Particles is a projection of particles on a screen which react to movement. It was made using Processing and the PixelFlow library. It uses a webcam to record the activity in front of the installation and then performs video subtraction which makes the particles to react to change.