Morphing Station (2007)
Since March 2007 the German Technology Museum Berlin houses a new permanent exhibition: “The Fascination of the Moment – A Technical History of Photography”. For this exhibition ART+COM developed and realized a morphing station.
The installation playfully mediates the possibilities of digital image editing. Visitors can shoot their own portrait with an integrated camera and use it immediately. Firstly, they have to define certain parts of their face: outline, eyes, nose, and mouth. On the touch screen they move a dot for example supposed to mark the root of the nose to its location on their portrait. User navigation on the screen simply describes what to do and allows a quick comprehension of the system. Once the programme has “learnt” and recognised the visitor’s face, morphing can begin.
Visitors can now decide with which other portrait they want to combine theirs. They can choose from the pictures of other visitors, comic heroes or celebrities like Marlene Dietrich and Götz George. With a fader on the output screen, visitors can decide for themselves how much of their features they want to erase.
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Client
German Museum of Technology Berlin
Services
- Development of basic concept
- Staging concept
- Storyboard
- Interaction design
- Interface design
- Media design
- Application programming
- Technical planning and realization
- Installation
- Project management
Technology
- 1 graphics PC
- Touch screen, vertically movable
- Output screen
- Sensory system (continuous linear slider) to control the morphing process
- Camera system to take pictures on site Real-time morphing
Special features
- The screen is used as a flashlight source.
- Real-time morphing by transformation of several polygonal 2d-meshes and combined image processing