Interactive animation (2007)

Launch Volumatrix

Made at the Insteractive Institute Art & Technology Program.

This is a sketch I made for visualizing what it might look like to “explode” an image into three-dimensional space. A source image is sampled at low resolution and the pixels are positioned in 3d space either along a cone or with a random Z coordinate. The resulting shape can be rotated and seen from any angle.

This was a sketch done in an early phase of a design process for a physical installation. It was made using Processing.

Here’s the source code and the animation on a web page. If you download the source code and want to run it in Processing you’ll need to put some image files in the same folder and update the file names in the source code.