We’re currently in Singapore mapping the Art Museum.
The setup was quite complicated, 5x Christie HD18k, with 2 stacks on the sides.
Output Resolution was a huge 3840 * 720, fed from a QC app to MadMapper thanks to Syphon.
The QC output:
a large decomposition of all the facades, animated.
Adjustments in MadMapper:
And the projected result:
Finally, MadMapper in action in Neuchatel.
And a photo of my computer screen, showing QC + MadMapper + Live all running in conjunction. This time I didn’t even bother compiling a custom app, and ran the show directly from the QC viewer. Sweet, as it allows for some live patching.
We’ll be showing Perspective Lyrique in Neuchatel / CH this week.
From 22nd to 24th May April.
This time we’re displaying to 3 outputs, sending a massive 3072*1100 texture from our custom app to MadMapper, at 60FPS.
The show is still controlled by Ableton Live.
Here’s the official video report of our interactive video mapping in Lyon.
Running via a custom QCapp + custom plugins, connected to Ableton Live for audio playback and realtime analysis.
Projected using 4x Christies R20k beamers.
After a SSD Laptop crash, finally I took some time to snapshot the Madmapper+ QC + Ableton Live + CueMix view.`More to come in the next post ;°).
Hiya,
we just spent all night tinkering our projection, trying to match the actual architecture as close as possible. Thanks to MadMapper, the task was rather easy, although we found a few really annoying UI bugs. Due to some modelling inaccuracies, I had to split the projection in 3 parts, each perspective corrected. Nevertheless, we ended up being roughly satisfied (but ya know the tune… I can’t get no …).
Then we took a few photos on location. And as usual with video mapping, the parts you design the quickest are the best…
Here’s the building relighted in 3d (Ambient Occlusion + Soft Shadows + Toon shader):
And the headshot, fully voice-activated (AO + SS + 8 morph targets depending on the tone of the voice):
And the MadMapper setup:
Tomorrow, I’ll try another Madmapper technique, using either grid warped (but still perspective corrected) or maybe camera pose estimation (with an openGL matrix output-to-file feature, then back in QC).
And finally the headmap applied on the 3d model, morphing-ready. The audience will be able to sing a few phonemes in realtime, and also a few expressions, like fear, smile or anger. I’m eager to see the end result projected on the building, as there’s a chance it might look like crap. Pertinent video mapping is always difficult to achieve.
Today I’ve been rendering facemaps for our interactive video-mapping in Lyon, next week. And I just happen to like them as-is. The first one is quite minimal, and the second one somehow reminds me of the famous JoyDivision record sleeve.
Click the pictures for a larger view.
In this mode of the show, the audience’voice is controlling the position of the light. There are 32 tones that can be taken into account, describing the lightsource’ circular motion around the building, and making subtle soft shadows.
Some more testing for a voice-activated building deformation. The patch analyses the tone of the voice, and applies the corresponding deformation, in realtime. Frank O. Gehry style.
