At the MIT Media Lab 2014 held in Mumbai, I picked the track Performance Capture. This was the project I proposed and executed with a team of a computer engineer, an engineering student and a doctor.
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Draw my Dance is about capturing the dance performance and turning it into a digital painting - all in real-time.
We offered a varied set of brushes and color palettes - set to presets according to mood - and an additional custom option.
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All that needs to be done is positioning a camera, setting up the sensors, and hitting run.
Since we used our own sensors and hardware, and an all original script to run it, within the span of five days; one could use their own digital camera/webcam/phone camera to generate these outputs.
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It's only a sample version with a few bugs, but it captured the essence of the project.
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