Xavi Tribó develops Cubepix, a spectacular 4D mapping project in real time

In a fun and technologically very advanced pilot project, Xavier Tribó and the special projects division of Glassworks Barcelona manage to synchronize and map 64 rotating cardboard boxes with a multicolor projection governed by movements captured with Kinect.

If already the cut, Fitting and mapping images onto static surfaces is quite a challenge… What would it mean to carry out a projection on 64 moving objects?

Xavier Tribó has faced this challenge together with the special projects division of Glassworks Barcelona,,in a project called Cubepix. In this experimental facility, This expert in image and three-dimensionality has deployed a total of 64 rotating cardboard boxes using small motors.

The result is truly spectacular when you see how the boxes rotate while they light up and with the help of Kinect, interactivity is added so that the movement of a person located in front of the Cubepix orders this rotation with its corresponding lighting.. So, Users are able to interact and influence the way the boxes move and light up. And all this in real time.

The prototype has been designed using a projector Panasonic, Microsoft's Kinect system, 8 Arduino, OpenFrameworks, 64 servomotors and 64 simple cardboard boxes. All of this, combined with the most sophisticated technology (projection mapping, pixel rotation, synchronization,…), generates a truly amazing result. Ver… to believe.