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"The Janus Machine" Interactive Installation
By Kyle McDonald, Zachary Lieberman, Theodore Watson, Daito Manabe. [2011]
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“While sitting at the chair in front of the scanner you are bathed in structured light, allowing the shape of your profile to be digitized and archived. This portrait, an attempt to capture your likeness in three dimensions, is compared to a library of other portraits captured in the same manner. From these comparisons emerges an outline of the captured form: a playful perspective on your relationship to others, built from light, inviting you to explore further.”
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https://vimeo.com/16197436
(u need to  log in on vimeo to watch it 😬 !! )
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This was made just before the released of Kinect. Faces were scanned in 3D with a witchcraft technique called "structure light".  A video projector would project lines patterns on the visitors faces, a camera would analize the patterns and extrapolate the 3d points.

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Rodrigo Carvalho.
Live Visuals & Digital Art.
https://linktr.ee/visiophone