2009

Puzzling

An augmented-reality installation that lets visitors rearrange moving-image fragments by manipulating wooden blocks.

Interactive installation; tangible interaction and computer vision

Three wooden blocks with fiducial markers, beside the same blocks displaying moving-image fragments in augmented reality. — Puzzling, 2009: tangible blocks and the augmented cinematic image. Figure 2 from the SIACG paper.

Puzzling is an interactive artwork developed with Ernesto Rodríguez. Scenes from films are divided into fragments and mapped onto wooden blocks tagged with visual tracking markers. A camera tracks the blocks, while a projection shows the moving images superimposed on them.

Moving the blocks changes the spatial arrangement of the film; rotating them can alter playback speed, allowing different fragments to move out of synchronisation. In one configuration, restoring the geometry disrupts temporal coherence, creating a tension between reassembling the image and reassembling its time.

The work was documented in the SIACG 2009 paper Puzzling.

Resources

Puzzling — SIACG 2009 paper

Writing

Puzzling (2009)

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