The “interactive” starry night by Vincent Van Gogh

Petros Vrellis, a greek digital artist, has recreated Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, one of the most well-known and considered works of the Dutch artist, but turning it into an interactive painting using a touch screen and the framework known as openFrameworks, thus ensuring that any viewer is able to change the course of the winds that appear in the digital painting with the mere touch of their hands..

The Greek digital artist Petros Vrellis has brought to life the famous painting The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh in an interactive piece, painted there 1889, a year before his death and that since 1941 It is part of the MOMA collection (the Museum of Modern Art in New York). Using a touch screen and openFrameworks, this Greek artist has created, from this picture, an interactive work with which the observer can interact by playing with the shapes of the painting itself, added to the sound itself that matches that interaction.

In its digital version The Starry Night is apparently alive since through animation, the lines of the sky, stem, city ​​and other elements are in a continuous harmonious movement that is a little hypnotizing. However, the viewer-user can modify it with his fingers., You simply touch a section of the painting and drag the “painting” in any direction, which will affect the flow of colors over the image, changing the composition for a few seconds. And after a short period, the painting returns to its original image.

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