Project Description

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In each location, there were two computers running the installation with one computer collecting and distributing data. This computer, the Sender, both sent skeletons to and received skeletons from the remote location. The skeletons it received were passed on to the Receiver as were the skeletons it extracted from the silhouettes. The Senders in both locations had statix IPs for direct communication altough the Sender in Seoul used Dynamic DNS.

Each site has an identical setup consisting of an IR camera, 2 high power IR lights, 2 computers, a projector, 2 speakers, and a router. One computer serves as the information gathering and generating hub and the other as the graphics renderer. As the projet developed, the information gathering machine became known as the Sender and the other computer as the Receiver. The Sender takes the camera signal through firewire and skeletonizes the images, effectively reducing the video data from to about 50 kbps/30 frames. The skeletons are pairs of points describing the structure of a participant's silhouette and allow us to transmit full speed video across a standard international Internet connection with very few data drops.