Memory Focused 

2018.05 | Individual work

Kinect | Processing

My grandma passed away when I was 12, she is so important to me and influenced me a lot. But now I cannot remember exactly what she looks like, even though I’m watching her photos, I still feel a little strange, which makes me think that time keeps erasing our memories, especially when we are not paying attention to it, it pasts faster.

The point I wanna express from this project is to remind people that time is always passing by, always erasure our memory, so regardless of how busy we are, just pay more attention to people around you, to something you really care about, maybe that could slow down the process of forgetting.

This is a photo of my parents in their 20s, I may add some blur or distortion effects to this photo when I was not staring at them. But if I start focus on this photo, it will stop changing or even recover a little.

Kinect library gives me point cloud of face in 2D space:

Cause what I need is the angle of that users’ face rotation.

I did some calculation to get the angle:

Final effects:

See my code here