In the frame of a marketing campaign for a travel agency, UbachsWisbrun/JWT, a large communication group in the Netherlands, has asked Bartpproject to develop an interactive mirror.
The installation allows each person passing by the shop window to have a taste of holyday atmosphere, thanks to an interactive experience.
A big LCD screen covered by a way mirror is placed in the shop window: when nobody is in front of it, the screen looks like a normal mirror.
As soon as a person stops in front of the screen, the real background behind him/her is subtracted, and replaced by exotic backgrounds, changing randomly.
The technology behind this installation is complex: the background is constantly changing, so in this context standard background subtraction techniques are not helpful.
We developed a stereo camera system that, by means of a triangulation algorithm, allows the detection of a foreground object.
Design and project management Bartproject
Programming Idealys
10 June 2008
Interactive mirror subtracting the real background and replacing it with a virtual one
22 May 2008
3D rendering of the ancient city of Lattara
Latara (also Lattara) is an ancient port town about five miles southeast of Montpellier, in the south of France. The territory of the former city corresponds to today's Lattes.
The settlement was populated from the 6th Century BC to 2nd Century AD, and shows an Etruscan, Greek and Roman phase.
Since 1960 archaeologists are running campaigns of excavations; recently, the French “Ministère de la culture” edited a website reporting the findings of the last campaigns.
The images and video illustrate the possible plan of the city, as well as a reconstruction of streets, houses and private spaces.
The video was produced by Bartproject for La forme interactive; modelling and animation by Stéphane Valette.
03 April 2008
Gizmodo publishes images from Jean Nouvel video
Gizmodo, one of the most popular blogs dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics has published an article concerning Jean Nouvel, recently awarded with the Pritzker Prize.
Among the images illustrating the most stunning Nouvel's projects, several screenshots from a Bartproject's video. Have a look at the original video, illustrating the project for the educational, cultural and entertainment centre in Kuwait City.
23 February 2008
Lecture at IUAV, architecture university in Venice, Italy
In the frame of a course held by architect Marco della Torre at the IUAV, faculty of design and Arts, Ignazio Mottola gave a lecture focussing on "the role of interactivity in architecure and ambient intelligence".
07 February 2008
Bartproject participated to Courts Cirquits
Ignazio Mottola participated to a series of brain storming meetings organised by the strategic planning agency Courts Cirquits. The outcomes of this reflection were available on December 20th 2007 in the “Soirée Pac Man”, an event organised by Apéros du Jeudi. The document resuming the presentation is to find above, and also on the Levidepoches website. Many thanks to Jeremy Dumont and to POURQUOITUCOURS.
