"Shadow Monsters" is a high-tech version, with some fun enhancements, of creating shadow puppets by projecting your hand shapes and movements on to a wall. From the Design and Elastic Mind write-up:
Shadow Monsters is based on a custom-design vision-recognition software. With the support of a computer, camera, projector, and light box, the software elaborates on viewers' shadow gestures with sound and animation. Open and close your hands like a mouth, and a wolf with razor-sharp teeth will surface and growl; tongues, eyes, and fins appear; birds squawk and dinosaurs speak.
Two video examples of "Shadow Monsters:"
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Doug Fox on January 4, 2009 11:01 AM
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