Les Grandes Tables de l’Ile Seguin

So the restaurant is finally open.
Yes, we also do “proper” architecture at 1024. Not just the virtual thing. The real, tangible, physical space.
Food is 100% organic, veg, cooked by star chief Arnaud Daguin.
The official opening is this coming friday, from 5PM, featuring a happy mix by our friend Etienne De Crecy.
And it is soooo refreshing to have the liberty to surf from virtual to physical, from art installations to architecture, from software to hardware.We love this job !
Next serie of photos will be… night shots. But we still got a few problems with the LED lighting, that should be resolved pretty soon.

All Photos here by Cyril Sancereau

A restaurant in Ile Seguin

Food… for thoughts.
We’re building a restaurant in the Ile Seguin in Paris.
Opening soon.

Mapping a building | After Effects + MadMapper tutorial

Hi,
in this tutorial, we’ll use After Effects to produce a QuickTime movie that we will remap on a building.
We’ll also need Photoshop to adjust our initial pictures.
The effect we’re after is a Glowing-Scan of the building.
The technique is rather simple, but it illustrates the process to achieve a photo-based architectural mapping.
This tutorial assumes that you know the basics of Adobe Photoshop + After Effects and MadMapper.
You can download a demo version of MadMapper at MadMapper’website

We’ll go from the initial photo on the left to the final mapping on the right:

1UP Mushroom

Back to Architecture.
There’s a 1UP mushroom that we’re growing in StDenis, France.
Kid-friendly, super Mario all star.
But this one you can walk through.

Full report when the building phase is finished.

Perspective Lyrique, the video

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.

Abies Electronicus #1

After 3 days in Guebwiller, France, we finally managed to get all our stuff working: beamers, LEDs, Flash lights and sound.
We’re making a contemporary XMas Tree, aka Abies Electronicus, and a video mapping on a church. Here a two pictures of the tree, lit by an array of LED devices, live controlled from QC. More to come soon, as the opening night is next sunday.

3D Bridge / Nuit Blanche Report

The first video report of 3D Bridge, a massive video mapping installation in Paris, is out !
Features our live mapping tools, all projected from a single computer on 6 christies R20k beamers.

HairyTecture

I’ve been working this week at a new particle engine for QC, featuring EmitterStructure input, Image input and Line based emission. The plugin will certainly be in use at 3 major shows we’ll be having this autumn.
It currently also allows to grow hair-like trailing particles.
As Salvador Dali said: ” Architecture has to be soft and hairy”.
Here’s a test output:

Mapping Festival 2009

Here’s is a littler picture showing our past performance at the Mapping Festival 2009 in Geneva, Swiss.
This is actually the end of the perf. , when the building literally explodes.
Sorry no video at the moment.
The whole show was live warped on the facade of the Usine, using
our latest mapping software, developped in-house.
The video spans on 3 beamer, each 12k.

Realtime Explosion Plugin

Hiya, I couldn’t resist posting a snapshot of our new
realtime explosion plugin,
which will allow us to destroy buildings.
100% shadow compatible, developed for us by Kineme.
Stay tuned for more info in the near future.