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:

  • Basement CPH in May '23
  • Beta in August '23
  • RĂ¥huset in Febuary '24
  • Nordic Noise Festival in May '24
  • Stengade in May '24


  • Clips above from show at Basement Cph

    Watch the full show from RĂ¥huset here:


    Check out Yume Productions for more info.



    CONTACT

    Feel free to contact me with any enquiries