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An overview of my interactive Cultural Heritage projects over the last years.

Motion Bank Augmented Reality Postcard
An Augmented Reality visualization of Ros Warby dancing Deborah Hay’s “No Time To Fly”. She was captured by 3 cameras in order to extract her silhouette and calculate her 3D position. The postcard and the brochure are tracked via natural feature tracking with Fraunhofer IGD’s Mobile AR framework.

DATEV Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Nürnberg
Posters come to live thorugh Augmented Reality. The iPad app illustrates the history of the Datev Company, data processing and taxation. It was presented 2011 at Nürnberg’s Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften.

dARsein: Augmented Reality Tour through Architectural History at House of Olbrich
The iPhone app visualizes the compelling history of Darmstadt’s unique Jugendstil quarter with Augmented Reality. Jump back in time visually by photos you take with your iPhone: Augmented Reality superimposes information on each picture and visualizes the impressive historical architecture of the Art Nouveau in front of real building.

MovableScreen at Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam
During the “A Future for the Past” exhibition of Allard Pierson Museum (http://www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl) in Amsterdam we are presenting two Augmented Reality applications on the MovableScreen: A virtual reconstruction of Satricum and an annotated landscape on a 1855 photograph of Forum Romanum (Rome Reborn).

Augmented Reality Sightseeing
A table with a satellite image of Berlin shows a 3D model of the Berlin Wall and the urban development from 1940 – 2008 are displayed. Therefore urban grain plans showing areas covered with buildings is augmented on the satellite image. The visualization was presented on UMPCs and the iPhone via video seethrough. Furthermore posters are simulating the system working outdoors. Historic photographs are seamless superimposed and showing the development of landmarks.

iTACITUS Reality Filtering
Reality Filtering enables context sensitive overlays of original historic drawings of missing paintings or lost architecture. For a seamless integration we are rendering the reality in the style of the original drawing (here: blach and white). At Reggia Venaria Reale (http://www.lavenaria.it) we are visualizing missing paintings in Diana Hall, different architecture styles of Palazzo Diana and the lost Temple Diana in the gardens of the palace.

Rome Reborn Augmented Reality at SIGGRAPH 2008
Augmented Reality overlays of 3D roman monuments via markerless tracking.

Finally the 3D prints arrived from Shapeways. There’s still no direct 3D model export in the application due to irregular holes in the Kinect depth map. But it works with minor manual fixes with Meshlab.

Here’s the Flickr album with the results.

Apple thinks that web pages on OSX Lion have to wobble like on the iPad. Even when there’s nothing to scroll. When using the mouse wheel or scroll gesture inside text box or a WebGL window while zooming into a 3D scene the whole content wobbles.

Richard York posted a simple solution via CSS:

“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Opportunity doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier. You can get home sooner, but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease you have to fight in any creative field. Ease of use.”
It Might Get Loud

Yesterday the forest was full of fireflies. Long time exposures.

Mounted an LED with a Ping Pong ball diffusor on a Syma S107 RC helicopter and took a long exposure shot. Unfortunately Blink-M did not work because of the helicopters tiny battery.

This is the test for a full automated Light Painting flight controlled by Android, Arduino and IRrc library Aqualung’s code (it is already flying!).

First uncalibrated Kinect recordings of Michael and Chris in 2010

OpenFrameworks silhouette extraction of Michael’s solo

Just a short part of a presentation (German) about design challenges in Augmented Reality.

AR_Design_Challenges (PDF)

Mounting 5 LEDs on a moving object creates one of the cheapest and largest displays: Persistence of Vision. It’s been done on bicycle wheels, fans and other rotating objects.

In this project i am sewing a Lilypad wearable Arduino board and five LEDs with conductive thread on my dog’s shirt. She (Ianto) is a Miniature Pinscher running very fast for fun. In curves fast enough for Persitence of Vision. And she likes running in large circles in the park! Light writing.

I chose Cory Doctorows “Makers” for her writing with light. It’s one of the most influential books i read in the last years. A book about our generation of Makers set some month / years in the future. And Cory released it under Creative Commons license. Thus anyone can remix it.

This is a remix in light.

The hardware:
Lilypad
5 Sparkfun LilyPad LED Bright White
Sparkfun LilyPad Power Supply
Conductive Thread

Sewing conductive thread i kind of tricky. It took some time until i got used to it and the stitches got straight. I even got some short circuits because crossing plus and minus threads too close. But meanwhile i prefer it over soldering.

Source code: LilyPOVText.pde

Thanks to Birgit for the shirt and Ianto for running around.

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