Swarm is an interactive video installation that implements the pattern of flocking birds (using Craig Reynold’s Boids model) as a constantly moving brush stroke. Taking inspiration from Jackson Pollack’s “drip and splash” technique of pouring a continuous stream of paint onto a canvas, Swarm smears colors captured from live video input, producing an organic painterly effect in real-time.

Siggraph: Additional photos and video from the 2004 Emerging Technologies Exhibition

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Photos from Savannah College of Art & Design show