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Eye Candy: Jean-Christophe Naour's Brilliant "Kinect Graffiti"

By Ray Hu - June 8, 2011

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Jean-Christophe Naour, a French Interaction Designer currently based in Seoul, South Korea, recently uploaded video documentation of his Kinect Graffiti™ project. The result is visually striking if nothing else:

Kinect Graffiti™ is a digital graffiti tool using "Microsoft Kinect" camera. [The] Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc... Kinect Graffiti™ is a tool built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries.

The stills (via jcnaour's Flickr) look a lot like light painting / graffiti trend that's picked up with the rise of digital photography, though I'm still not quite sure how to interpret the output—i.e. whether the colors carry data or if they are purely aesthetic.

Still, I'm curious to see where this project is headed; it's something like the inverse of the Eyewriter project, which made rounds a while back...

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typ0

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This application is really sick ! I can feel many inspiration, but it's so different from graffitianalysis and other things, it is really really fresh. Great job !
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Justin

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It's funny you mention the eyewriter, because the same crew that managed the eyewriter also did an extensive study on graffiti tagging in motion. http://graffitianalysis.com/
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