The Philosopher Cube

"The Philosopher Cube" is a large public projection piece created for a festival here in Ottawa called Electric Fields ( http://electricfields.ca ). It is basically is a large projection downtown of an "alien" cube that asks passers-by questions about the human race such as "What is love?" or "what is justice?" etc. People can then reply by tweeting to http://twitter.com/efcube. These answers are then projected in real-time onto the wall and after a few minutes of receiving questions the cube will present an "answer" of random words from the answers given - think "refrigerator poetry." It uses primitive projection mapping and OpenGL/C++ using Cinder Frameworks ( http://libcinder.org ).

More media available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/plumcantaloupe/sets/72157625331164730/

Thanks to Algonquin College and Artengine, and Rideau Centre for their collaboration and funding; and to Cinder Frameworks' developers for their help.

And a special thanks to James Acres of Algonquin, Ryan Stec of Artengine, and Tim Olden of Blendid for their great advice.

Showing November 4th through November 7th 2010 6pm - 12am Eastern.

http://artengine.ca/electricfields/2010/inst-philosopher-cube-en.php

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Cinder
• Electric Fields
• Ottawa Ontario Canada
• C++
• Twitter
• projection mapping
• projection