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geekSPARK 2017

geekSPARK is a showcase of creative use of technology, taking place each year during the SPARKcon art festival. What lies below is a summary of the festivities at geekSPARK 2017. # RC Speedway The RC Speedway was an incredibly fun creation by maker extraordinaire Bill Culver…
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Kimotion at geekSPARK 2016

Just a few short days months ago, Kimotion was on display at SPARKcon. SPARKcon is a large art festival in Raleigh, and we occupy a small slice of it called geekSPARK. # Kimotion Levels Up Last year’s tech had a rudimentary and finicky hand tracking system. It was workable, but …
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Kimotion

Kimotion is a framework for building reactive art displays. Creating an interactive art exhibit with Kimotion is easy. Draw your ideas in either 2D or 3D. Kimotion will provide information about the scene, which you can use to influence your display. Learn more at kimotion.xyz, o…
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Make a Kimotion!

A year ago, I had the joy of working on Digital Motion, an interactive art exhibit for Raleigh’s annual art festival, SPARKcon. The month leading up to SPARKcon 2014 was a mad dash of perfecting the graphics and physics equations of my DiMo: Particles display. After a wonderful w…
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DiMo: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Imagine a solitary blue dot. Unless you let your imagination run away with itself, this is going to be a pretty boring dot. Now, imagine a second, larger dot (you can pick the color). Red, nice choice! The scene is now slightly more interesting, since now you’ve got two dots to…
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Particles and π - DiMo Comes to Life

A player walks up Fayetteville St in Raleigh, North Carolina. SPARKcon has begun, and dozens of artists are strewn along the street, hard at work creating elaborate chalk art on the asphalt. A light rain is falling, and some artists are holding umbrellas over their work, some hav…
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