For this assignment I thought it would be interesting to see what I could do to a house. I can see some potential for using this process as a substitute for Christmas lights. There have been some incredible choreographed light shows at people's houses that I've seen, and I though it would be interesting to take that idea and shift it to the modern age. All of the shows I've seen use only traditional Christmas lights, which produces a really cool effect, but could be way more complex. Integrating projection mapping with traditional Christmas lights, the complexity, the color variance, and the content could be widely expanded.
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I figured what better house to make a test on than my own. This image also presented a bit of a challenge with the masking.
These are just a couple of concept ideas trying out different things. I imitated the crawling ants you see in a lot of Christmas lights, but as a more smooth motion. For the rest of the house, I just used some of the built in graphics.
Process:
I found the UI in madmapper to be surprisingly easy to use. Adding and scaling assets was super easy. The masking does leave a bit to be desired (no bezier), but using alpha images would solve that problem. I was also interested to see that there wasn't an option to add more than one mask per asset. The vector lines were really easy to animate and customize. I can see how creating custom assets and SVGs would produce a really high quality image. Running the program did make my computer work a bit, but it handled the framerate really well.
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