Check out the video from 3deluxe (the architects of the facade):

It got a red dot award 2011 in the category „communication design“

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Highly interactive, technology loaded and awarded presentation tool for the Mercedes Benz CLS at the Paris Motorshow.

It consists of a car on a rotating platform, a large LED screen, a live Augmented Reality camera inside the car, Radartouch interaction areas, iPads for visitors and a moderator. All together create one seamless multimedia spectacle.

Via iPads the visitors can vote at the beginning of the show what they are most interested in and the show unfolds accordingly.

The Radartouch areas are like invisible touch screen which allow the moderator to control the show, interact with on screen objects and even draw in mid air.

When the hood of the car is opened a camera mounted inside shows the real motor on the LED screen. Now via Augmented Reality it is possible to remove top layers and give an inside view of the engine. Further, the moderator grabs importent parts and brings them onto the LED where animations explain the inner details.

Good friends from Bombay: www.andthen.co.in

With Shipa Gupta

Headphones, LCD text display, distance sensor, microcontroller.

While listening to a voice (the wall?) the visitor is constantly asked and forced to take different proximities and movements towards the wall in front of him.

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The most important thing for a portfolio of a fashion designer are the images. This simple website uses all the space it can get and allows fast and simple photo browsing. At the same time it can be used “offline” for presentations in full screen. Made for fashion designer Franziska Eichhorn.

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www.franziska-eichhorn.de

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This is a first sketch for a real-time shader which mimics the style of old architectural drawings. Two steps are involved: first creating the drawn outlines and second shading the areas in between.

Let’s begin with the outlines.

Starting from a simple standard shading and trying to extract contours via sobel-edge doesn’t produce useful results:

Edges appear depending on contrast. So we have to create some more useful starting material. First create a depth map. Edges will appear between areas of different depth.

Second we render the normals. Edges will appear between areas facing in different directions.

Both are rendered in one pass and output into the RGB color channels.
red – x component of normal
green – y component of normal
blue – depth

Derived contours: much better!

The line are then modulated with the depth information to fade them out at the distance, producing higher contrast in foreground objects:

The second step is the proper shading. We can easily modulate the standard shading with a screen aligned noise texture which produces already good results:

But we can do better with a simple trick. Taking the depth map from an earlier step and modulating it with the noise texture we can lower the contrast in distant areas. Using a down sampled version produces even nicer irregular shading at various edges:

Adding the outlines creates the final look:

The final image is just a multiplication with an image of drawing paper:

Here is another version using halftone dots:

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Background information on the November 9th 1989

Thomas Eichhorn is a designer currently based in Halle Germany. He recently graduated as Multimedia|VR-Designer at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design.
His work is about interfaces, user interaction, virtual reality, augmented reality, physical computing and multimedia installations.