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Carnival Interactive Aquarium

The interactive aquarium is installed in store front windows in 6 cities across the US. Using computer vision the seascape will react to the motion of a user, seaweed will sway and fish will scatter. Users can then dial in with any mobile device and create a fish using their voice. As they connect in realtime the sounds they make are analyzed and create a dynamically generated fish. You can then enter that fish into the aquarium and use your key pad to eat various pieces of fish food that will transform and morph your fish into creatures. The application will remember the state of your fish so that when you call back later you can evolve your fish even further. Technical

The installation was setup in two situations an HD rear projection and a LCD wall. The vision technology was able to track motion and trigger animations. The phone technology was built using megaphone a realtime multiuser mobile phone server.

Carnival Interactive Aquarium from vanderlin on Vimeo.

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  • carles 00:37, Great unofficial site! Hope can share here some projects also. Thanks OF ^^

  • Simon 01:17, Sorry ! I just have to use the gui.. wonderful source ! thanks a lot

  • Simon 01:01, Hi ! I have tried to compile the boid example .. but when the app starts, nothing appends because it's try to load _settings.xml. Do you have an example of the settings xml file ? Thanks a lot !

  • escher 05:36, dear vanderlin, I couldn't find ofxBox2d from google code,where could I to get it? thanks!!

  • nomo 14:21, TO WILL: this line should look like this: gui.addSlider("boid.max_vel", slider_vals["boid.max_vel"],0.1f, 40.0f, 0.1f);

  • igoumeninja 19:50, ok, i done it.

  • igoumeninja 19:27, how can i declare saved_image_num and img_saver at the make video tutorial?

  • Will 04:53, Could you please help me to fix this problem? http://www.openframeworks.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2218 It may have something to do with my entry level skills but... I have tried to compile the example and the compiler threw an error in the TestApp.cpp file. "error: no matching function for call to 'ofxSimpleGuiToo::addSlider(const char [13], float*, float, float, float)''

  • download ofxBox2d 18:31, hey guys i am having probs downloading the OF wrapper for box2D from the google code page, is there another way to download it?

  • roxlu 17:08, posted youcube!