The Kaleidoscope is an interactive, reactive system for tessellating the world around you. It uses a live web-cam as the video input, tiling the image on-screen to produce kaleidoscopic images. The system also allows for feed-back loops by pointing the camera at the screen. The result is a recursive fractal image that moves and fluctuates as the camera tries to auto-adjust to the ever-changing image.

For the installation, the camera was surgically implanted into the eye of a stuffed bunny rabbit, and the kaleidoscope image was displayed on a 28″ television screen mounted on the floor. The software was written using Processing 1.0.1.