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Soft Garden Affective Kinetic Interface & Smart Home Luminaire Interplay 25 Kinetic Design Competition - First Prize Winner
Visualizing Emotion through Kinetic Sand
This interactive installation bridges the digital and physical divides.
By leveraging computer vision algorithms to capture real-time facial micro-expressions, the system maps emotional data into polar coordinates. These signals drive a custom dual-axis stepper mechanism, translating intangible feelings into tangible, ephemeral sand patterns.
Time: 4 Weeks Team: 3 people (Collaborated with Mech & Code & industry design engineers)