An istallation that allows you to play God by bringing to life any creature you draw.

The installation I made for my Master project consists of a hacked photocopier, some paper, black markers and colored pencils.

Using the markers and pencils, you can draw any creature you can come up with. The photocopier is then used to bring your creature to life.
Just put the drawing under the lid, press 'copy', and 5 seconds later, your creature is swimming around between the creatures that other visitors drew.

Inside of the photocopier, there's a camera, a beamer and pc which runs custom made software that analyses and animates your drawing.
The software was written in Java and uses processing by Ben Fry and Casey Reas and JMyron by Josh Nimoy.

The installation has been on show here:
Jul '07 :
- HISK, Antwerp (graduation show)
- Demo + talk at Alcatel-Lucent, Antwerp
Aug '07:
- Cultuurmarkt, HETPALEIS, Antwerp
Sept '07:
- Festivaaalllaallal, Scheld'apen, Antwerp
Oct '07:
- 'De Sprookjestuin', HETPAIS, Antwerp
Nov '07:
- Integrated2007, DeSingel, Antwerp
- BRONKS festival, Brussels
Dec '07:
- The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience, NICC, Antwerp
Jun - Aug '08
- Net.Culture.Space, Vienna
Sept '08
-Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

Quinten, drawing
Dré, Anke & Stophl at the expo
Afreux at the expo
The Huge Hand
screen tests (debug)

more images on Flickr
video is now on Vimeo

Photocopier, pc, camera, beamer, custom software, paper, markers.