A study of light and self perception

Made by Jan Orlowski, josegonz, slakshma, tbajpai and clavicka

Explore the distortion of our identity by ourselves and society through a space populated by fragmented mirrors and distortion software.

Created: December 8th, 2017

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The goal of the project was to experiment with light and image distortion in an interesting way. We wanted to distort images using physical objects and software. We booked a study room in Hunt library and planned out the initial version. The laptop would take a picture of the user and send it to the distortion software.  The distorted image would be projected onto a grid of mirrors, which would reflect the light around the room in an interesting manner:

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The initial plan
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To distort the projector in an interesting way, we created a modifiable wall of mirrors:

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The mirror wall used to reflect the projection.
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In the end, our final setup was a bit different from the initial plan:

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The final setup in the room
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Isha wrote the software that we used to distort the image:

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The software Isha wrote for distorting the image.
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Explore the distortion of our identity by ourselves and society through a space populated by fragmented mirrors and distortion software.