Interactive Installation
Portal to Tomorrow
2024
A “please touch the art” projection that turns a responsive fabric surface into an expressive, physical portal.
About the project
Portal to Tomorrow is a “please touch the art” interactive projection on four-way stretch fabric, framed within a rigid portal. Gyrating psychedelic patterns are projected onto a tactile surface that responds to touch. Because the screen stretches, participants can physically bend and distort the projection through an added z-dimension—opening up possibilities for storytelling, influence, and expression through the input of the human body.
- Utilizes RealSense depth sensing camera to detect user input across the stretch fabric surface.
- Player inputs are decoded as various gesture types, which get translated into modifications of seven different “uniforms” or variables within the custom shader system. These shaders are displayed one on top of another in varying opacities to create visual hallucination renderings.
- C# (Visual Studio), Javascript (Gamemaker)