Below is a video of the project working, or use the live link to experience it using your own webcam. Reflecting back on the art-making process, I wanted an art piece that was interactive and inherently connected with the user. The final product is a responsive, dynamic art piece where the user uses a flashlight…
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Realtime Light Painting – Failures and Success
This week I continued wrangling with the feedback to make it more light-painty. This took longer than I thought, as working with WebGL can be pretty annoying. I did succeed in a few key areas: I found a webcam and turned off auto-exposure, so now I can determine the exposure better. Now bright lights stick…
Kaamil – Proof of Concepts
Hey all, I doubled down on feedback light painting, and my initial experiments have been super fun to play with. Check out that video below. My main issue now is to really nail down the best way to use it in line with my concept. Adding video includes the viewer and completely shifts the medium….
Kaamil Lokhandwala – Prayer to a Light
Lately, the metaphor of plants growing toward a light has really resonated with me, and how spirituality can mirror this. People will grow and transform as they turn towards the light. For my light art project I want viewers to have a spiritual-like experience by activating the art piece through thoughtful positions of their hands…
Light Artist – Janne Parviainen
Janne is a Finnish artist who works with light paintings, oil paintings and drawings. He first discovered light paintings by accident when nudging his camera during a long exposure. Later he would create photos by moving the camera, and eventually ended up at light painting. He’s well known for his light figures and skeletons that…
Introduction – Kaamil Lokhandwala
Hey all! I’m Kaamil, a senior here at WPI. I ‘ve been to school in Tewksbury, MA, Karachi, Pakistan, and Andover, MA before coming to WPI. I consider myself an artist at heart, but I studied computer science along with my IMGD (BA) degree. I like to think of technology as a new medium for…