voxel topography
Concept, Design, Development
Expanding my Topographic Portraits project I built this browser-based tool to make it easier for anyone to render their likeness as a voxel topography. You’ll need to grant camera access to your browser or mobile camera. Click or tap on the view to tilt the scene or use the UI controls. This uses your webcam but your privacy is important and camera access stops when you leave the page. Nothing is recorded or saved on the backend.
Adjustments
Through in in-application settings dialog you can swtich between two modes, Voxel and Dots, to explore different effects, extrusions, levels of transparency, etc. These effects run on the webcam in realtime and these still images were saved directly from the Save function within the application.
Setting
This prototype works using a laptop, webcam, or phone so much of the testing has been done where it’s convenient. At home. At a desk. Walking down the street and using the phone camera for a voxel selfie. But what if this was mounted somewhere public? Somewhere high traffic and highly visible?