Gallery: Watch: This 3-D Software Is Adobe Illustrator on Acid
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This is Adrien Mondot during a performance of Cinamatique. It looks like he's being swallowed by a gridded black hole, but it's actually an effect achieved by eMotion, the software that he developed. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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eMotion is basically a physics-based animation system that uses human motion to interact with projected graphics in real time. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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Using devices like Kinect, eMotion generates, calculates and animates images in real time. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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In *Hakanai*, a dancer interacts with the graphics projected from two video projectors. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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The dancer's tracked position is used to apply invisible forces to the graphical objects like wind, displacement and attraction.*Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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The artists refer to it as digital puppetry. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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They want eMotion to enable interaction outside of screens, instead turning them into environments and living organisms. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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eMotion can be used in interactive installations as well. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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"This tool is still experimental, but we wish to improve its stability and ergonomics, to develop instructions for use, in order to provide it to the largest number of users interested, to create a community who thinks with it," the artists say. *Image: Courtesy of the artists*
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Though the more people who use the app, the more creative Mondot and Bardainne need to be with their applications. "It's a good creative challenge," Bardainne says.*Image: Courtesy of the artists*
