Shadow Monster

介紹：http://www.designmuseum.org/designinbritain/philip-worthington

其他影片：http://occultdesign.blogspot.com/2007/02/philip-worthingtons-shadow-monsters.html

Shadow Monster 是由RCA 的Philip Worthington 在RCA show 2005 展示的互動作品,他利用人的手影變化,藉由偵測出影子的外圍,分析之後加上附有變化性的造形藝術以及音效,十分有趣,就像是怪獸總動員一樣。

陰影怪獸從一個簡短的關於技術魔術。我一直在尋找在光學錯覺和維多利亞手陰影特別感興趣我作為一個起點。其中的奧妙與性質可設立已經非常神奇，我想知道是否還有餘地進行試驗這些技術。回首自己的童年，我記得的感覺鑄造巨大形狀根據我父親的幻燈機，創造怪物和愚蠢的動物。我喜歡簡單，直觀的工作的事情;好玩的感覺，觸摸我們的一個非常基本的水平。

Through a complex interplay of computer graphic and photographic programming, fantastic monsters materialise from the shadows cast by the hands of participants, reacting to and elaborating on their gestures with sound and animation. Wolf-like creatures, birds and dinosaurs are among the characters that speak and squeak as imaginary mouths open and close.
‘Play’ and ‘playfulness’ are words Worthington frequently uses when describing both his work and his approach to interactive design. As the London-based designer says, “it is a platform for experimentation and a space for the imagination to run wild.” His other projects include a digital version of the traditional toy race car track, an online community graffiti network and a colony of digitalised leaf-cutter ants that mimic the behaviours of actual ants as they forage around an interactive tabletop in search of real objects on the surface.
Worthington’s designs inject spirit and humanity into our increasingly technologically driven society. However, interaction designers today are not only concerned with the expressive and communicative possibilities of new technologies but also with their social and cultural consequences. The vision recognition software Worthington has written for Shadow Monsters could have applications beyond growling wolves and squawking birds to incorporate graphical commands for the physically disabled. While exploring all available avenues for his truly immersive and interactive designs Worthington continues to make existing and emerging technologies more meaningful and relevant to our lives now.

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