Tangima was my Digital Media Design graduation project, supervised by the professor João Bonelli.
We asked ourselves: What if each pixel were able to move? Images, sounds and videos coming off the screen, invading the physical space we live in.. Instead of flat screens, we would have volumetric screens, displaying all the content in volume.
That's what we want to do with "Tangima": tangibilize images, in real time.
A volumetric display like Tangima have many use possibilities. For example:
1) It could be used by blind people to read digital texts in Braile, or even touch and feel digital images, for the first time.
2) It could be used by anyone during a video call. You would be able to see, feel and touch the other person.
3) It could be used as an interactive wall in clubs or events: a wall that changes its shape and its colors while the music is playing.
1) It could be used by blind people to read digital texts in Braile, or even touch and feel digital images, for the first time.
2) It could be used by anyone during a video call. You would be able to see, feel and touch the other person.
3) It could be used as an interactive wall in clubs or events: a wall that changes its shape and its colors while the music is playing.
So far, we have prototyped a low resolution Tangima, based on a matrix of moveable pins. Each pin represent a pixel of our display. We used Processing, Arduino and a Kinect Camera to make it.
These are some of the experiments we have used to test this prototype, so far:
1) Wave animations... It displays the movement of waves in different directions.
2) Kinect câmera... It displays someone or something scanned by a Kinect camera.
3) Music... It physically displays a song.
