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Inspired by the industrious foraging of leaf cutter ants in the forest, the colony is an interactive tabletop that is home to three thousand digitally projected ants.
Running around searching for objects left on the table, the ants mimic real ant behaviour, leaving pheromone trails to create superhighways of movement between items of interest.
These ants, however, have a particular taste for colour, finding objects with vivid tones and bleeding the colour out as they search for the nest in the centre of the table. The resulting patterns are ever-changing trails, mimicing the hues of items on the table.
The project is part of a British American Tobacco sponsored arts initiative called ?Tribe Art?, and is the first in a series of works to be designed over the course of the year for use in bars/lounges and events internationally. As part of the design a special surface has been develloped to emit high levels of infrared light in a very small space, which when coupled with infrared cameras provides an incredibly accurate means of shape/motion recognition.
When the ouput was programmed to be more painterly
When the ouput was programmed to be more painterly
Tribe Art, 2006
Inspired by the industrious foraging of leaf cutter ants in the forest, the colony is an interactive tabletop that is home to three thousand digitally projected ants.
Running around searching for objects left on the table, the ants mimic real ant behaviour, leaving pheromone trails to create superhighways of movement between items of interest.
These ants, however, have a particular taste for colour, finding objects with vivid tones and bleeding the colour out as they search for the nest in the centre of the table. The resulting patterns are ever-changing trails, mimicing the hues of items on the table.
The project is part of a British American Tobacco sponsored arts initiative called ?Tribe Art?, and is the first in a series of works to be designed over the course of the year for use in bars/lounges and events internationally. As part of the design a special surface has been develloped to emit high levels of infrared light in a very small space, which when coupled with infrared cameras provides an incredibly accurate means of shape/motion recognition.
