UNTITLED DIGITAL ART (AUGMENTED HAND SERIES)

By Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald

Repository: github.com/CreativeInquiry/digital_art_2014

Contact: @golan or golan@flong.com

Photo © by Gerlinde de Geus, courtesy Cinekid Festival.

Commissioned by the Cinekid Festival, Amsterdam, October 2014, with support from the Mondriaan Fund for visual art. Developed at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University with additional support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier. Concept and software development: Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, Kyle McDonald. Software assistance: Dan Wilcox, Bryce Summers, Erica Lazrus. Conceived 2005; developed 2013-2014.

Special thanks to Paulien Dresscher, Theo Watson and Eyeo Festival for encouragement, and to Dan Wilcox, Bryce Summers, and Erica Lazrus for their help making this project possible. Thanks to Elliot Woods and Simon Sarginson for assistance with Leap/camera calibration, and to Adam Carlucci for his helpful tutorial on using the Accelerate Framework in openFrameworks. Additional thanks to Rick Barraza and Ben Lower of Microsoft; Christian Schaller and Hannes Hofmann of Metrilus GmbH; Dr. Roland Goecke of University of Canberra; and Doug Carmean and Chris Rojas of Intel.

Developed in openFrameworks (OF), a free, open-source toolkit for arts engineering. This project also uses a number of open-source addons for openFrameworks contributed by others: ofxPuppet by Zach Lieberman, based on Ryan Schmidt's implementation of As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation by Igarashi, Moscovich & Hughes; ofxLeapMotion by Theo Watson, with assistance from Dan Wilcox; ofxCv, ofxLibdc, and ofxTiming by Kyle McDonald; ofxCvMin and ofxRay by Elliot Woods; and the ofxButterfly mesh subdivision addon by Bryce Summers.

Shoutouts from @golan @chrissugrue & @kcimc: @admsyn @bla_fasel @bwycz @cinekid @CMUSchoolofArt @creativeinquiry @danomatika @elliotwoods @eyeofestival @laurmccarthy @openframeworks @PESfilm @rickbarraza @SimonsMine @theowatson @zachlieberman