Aura Installation

Published on Oct. 08, 2008
by Kyle

“Aura” is an installation visualizing human presence as moving energy. Projected onto the wall are thousands of ‘particles’ that are attracted to your presence, they turn from a cool blue to a warm red and increase in movement depending on the activity in their area. The installation’s sound component was a loop of an indefinable rumble from a sub-woofer, the volume of the rumble was determined by the overall amount of activity occurring in the installation at the moment.
The installation, created back in May, detects a person’s presence using an infrared camera and a simple subtractive-background method of motion detection. The installation used custom software written using Processing libraries.
Unfortunately I have been unable to track down my original video documentation of the project so-far, until I get that footage all I have are a few photos, below are a couple.

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