Real Time Lidar Visuals

Role
Researcher, Developer, Interviewer, Data Coder, Animator
Keywords
Kinect, Interaction Design, Experience design, Touchdesigner
Period
Jan-Jun '23
Master Thesis

Spending countless of hours in a basement-room of Aalborg University, we developed live visuals utilizing a Kinect for point-cloud data, investigating the level of "Flow" in the audience.
A big part of the research period was spend contacting artists and conducting expert interviews for insights in the field. The interviews and addistional empirical research gave us a design requirement list with th e hypthesis that the live generated visuals based on the musicians would make a difference.
I was incoorporating the pointcloud data from the Kinect into Touchdesigner and creating an, also for me, interactive controlpanel for the variables of these visualizations. I created 2D handdrawn animated gif's to utilize as layers so much so that the band Lady used my design for their single "Whole Lotta Pretty".
Me and my co-writer Abderrahman Mhadden ended up with a really succesful concert at Basement in Copenhagen for the final evaluation.
Creating these interactive visuals brings emotion and visual depth to a concert. And it is very fun at the same time.
The project is developed mainly in Touchdesigner and includes projector setup and light integration.
Additional Shows:


Clips above from show at Basement Cph
Watch the full show from RĂ¥huset here:
Check out Yume Productions for more info.