Photo-Mosaic Mirrors
Seattle's McLeod Residence currently has photomosaic mirrors in the bathrooms. The McLeod Mirrors track your image and in (relative) real-time generate your image with hundreds of other images. The images used in the display come from powder room visitors.
The affect is very cool. There is a bit of a lag, but I could definitely see my face in the mirror (my friend Thomas happened to be one of my eyes). The mirrors were created by the Barbarian Group (the same agency that created the awesome Magnetosphere (Radar post)). The software is written in Processing, the Java-based visualization library. To really see the full affect you should watch the video (scroll right).
The Barbarian Group is doing a limited run of 100 mirrors. They'll run you $6000 a pop. If that's a bit too pricey, the plan is to have a McLeod Mirror 2.0 at ETech 2008.
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A new gadget for the cool bars in town. They could put one near the bar or the coat check. You will be able to have a glimpse at who is in and who is not.
Saw it last night at the Net2 event. Reading about definitely made me want to see it, but it does not do it justice. I'm not sure what it's capabilities are or will be, but if I had this mirror in my home and it kept on ongoing photographic mosaic history of all my visitors in this form it would be tremendous - especially if you could play back periods. Loved it.
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monopole [07.09.07 03:38 PM]
Incredible now, five years from now as kitsch as the hamster dance.