A try to visualize the flow of the famous painting "Starry Night" of Vincent Van Gogh.
The user can interact with the animation. Also, the sound responds to the flow.
Made with openframeworks.

[ UPDATE - feb 20, 2012 ]
Thank you so much for your positive feedback! :)
Due to large number of requests, I am currently working on porting this application to iPad and android.

[ UPDATE - mar 28, 2012 ]
The iPad version is ready! You can watch it here: vimeo.com/39353818
Available on the app store: itunes.apple.com/us/app/starry-night-interactive-animation/id511943282

Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

produced by:
onformative.com
chopchop.cc

Documentation:
vimeo.com/38505448

Music: Machinefabriek "Kreukeltape"
machinefabriek.nu/

Text: Sandra Moskova

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud),
so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process.
The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the
digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts
to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the
performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the
random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering
a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality
of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer,
as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts” the space
already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self
and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the
otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it
a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does
not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body
movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static,
inconsistent forms the body is “painting”, a new reality space emerges whose
simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.

Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the
more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete
the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds” we
project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more
tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems
so real that it comes to life again.

nominated for the for the MuVi Award:
kurzfilmtage.de/en/competitions/muvi-award/selection.html

see video in full quallity:
daniel-franke.com/unnamed_soundsculpture.mov

HQ Stills
flickr.com/photos/37752604@N05/sets/72157629203600952/

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I am a photographer from Portland, Oregon. I want to share the beautiful NW region through my eyes with time-lapse photography.

I choose to shoot locations that appeal to the way I would like to interpret the story of time. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are endless opportunities to document the magnificence of the world around us. I have discovered that when time is the storyteller, a special kind of truth emerges.

Various locations include ...
Mt. Shuksan, Crater Lake, Mt. Bachelor, Mount St. Helens, Oregon's Badlands, Painted Hills, Cape Kiwanda, Mt. Hood, Lost lake, and Cannon Beach

I started this project in July 2011 and shot the final scene in August 2012. I took approximately 260,000 images. I used 6.3 TB of hard drive space.

Equipment:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 5D Mark III (x2)
Canon 24mm f/1.4 L II
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L
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Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly (dynamicperception.com)
Dynamic Perception Stage One Dolly (dynamicperception.com)

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Artist: Ryan Farish
Song: Be Near
Album: Wonderfall
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CREDITS
Director: Andrew S Allen
Cinematographer: Jason Sondhi
Production Assistant: Julian Walker
Music: "Come Back" by Lotus Plaza
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For information about the follow up to this video visit:
nanoanimal.com/journal/2011/9/7/light-painting-experiments.html

Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in the background. I would like to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback I have received lately. To answer a few questions, I wrote the music and recorded it first. The frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. I used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects.

Featured in Shutterbug magazine web profiles March 2009!

Part of Pictoplasma Berlin Festival 2010. Characters in Motion 3. berlin.festival.pictoplasma.com/

Credits:
Ryan Cashman:
Creator, Director, Animator, Editor

Sean Fau-Burnitz:
Director of Photography, Camera Operator