Week 1

Introduction to Projection Mapping Technology and Ideas

Gertrude St Projection Festival 20-29 July
“Projection artist’s ephemeral charm brightens a Melbourne winter” – The Age, July 12
Interactive Laser Sculpture by Jayson Haebich ( Melbourne artist) – At Creative Applications Network.

Ian Burns: In the Telling ( Exhibition exploring / deconstructing projection : ACMI, Opens Jul  24)

Perspective? 3D Painted rooms.

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Video Examples?

Projection Enhanced Theatre? The Ice Book – a performance blending animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience.

Projection Mapping Stop Motion Animations? La Cena by VJ Suave / see also Homeless by VJ Suave (interview with VJ Suave) and Suburbia by Zeal – a clip was made using a combination of stop motion animation and projection mapping – the link includes a video describing his process of automating DSLR and projector synchronisation. ( Long exposure photography is also very relevant for documentation of video and light related projects. )

Interactivity? Projecting into Jars by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo. The V Motion Project ( NZ / using kinect to capture movement / translate it to music + projections. Behind the scenes. )

How To Approach 2D + 3D Projection Mapping?

What is 2D mapping, or mapping by planes, or by corner pins?

What is 3D mapping?

What is Orthographic Projection?

3D Projection Mapping On Cubes

More cubes, with layered video. Resolume in a backyard.

Creating maps for Resolume using Photoshop.

IR Mapio tutorial with Resolume. Audioreactive video in Resolume, mapped with IR Mapio.

 Using a camera and photoshop to make masks, then mapping these in Resolume.

Tutorial about using photographs to align and map video onto objects

Software

Installed in the LAB:

Resolume Avenue – (See review here ) Resolume Manual. Resolume discussion forum. Resolume FAQ

Resolume – how to create a sound-reactive EQ

IR Mapio – ‘a set of editor and plug-in of FreeFrameGL standard to arrange 2D mapping projections of arbitrary complexity’ – to be used within VJ apps such as VDMX, Resolume or Modul8.

VPT :  A free (Mac + PC ) multipurpose realtime projection software tool created by HC Gilje.

Not Installed:

Madmapper ( Mac only) MadMapper is built around the idea of sharing video content between applications, using a Mac OS X based framework called Syphon. ( List of tutorials for connecting various software to Madmapper. )

Millumin – Mac software for ‘creating and performing audiovisual shows’. Includes 4 corner mapping for layers,  mesh warping for screens and multi-display edge blending.

Meshwarp Server – (mac/PC + free) ‘A versatile Mapping Tool to create complex Video Projection Installations.’ ( Site includes detailed tutorials – using your 3D meshes etc )

VVVV – “Hybrid graphical/textual programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.” ( Tutorial about scanning 3D objects, for precisely projection mapping 3D objects… Tutorial about projecting onto 3D Geometry )

LPMT ( 39 Euros for PC mapping software )

VJ Forums

Wikipedia’s VJ software list.

ORI-REVO:  – A Design Tool for 3D Origami of Revolution.
ORIPA – An Origami Pattern Editor.
Treemaker –  a program for the design of origami bases
Pepakura Designer – make templates for paperwork models from 3D data files.

Hardware :

Cables, projectors, external graphics cards, mixers, switchers.

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