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Blimpy - an artistic framework for creating a spatial augmented reality experience with helium blimps

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Introduction

Blimpy is a framework for the realization of immersive spatial augmented reality experiences with autonomous helium blimps. The framework allows artists and designers to develop their own creative language by designing the blimps’ shape, behavior and the audiovisual content for the overall appearance. It is designed to be mostly transparent to those creatives that prefer to focus on aesthetic aspects, but approachable for those that wish to engage with the technical details.

Repository

This repository contains all the info needed to get started making your own blimp.

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The framework includes the following core components and the repository is structured accordingly:

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applications

you can find different applications inside the apps folder.

Manager

The manager is documented inside the manager folder.

Blimps

Details on creating a blimp is documented inside the robots folder.

SAR

Acronym for Spatial Augmented Reality, is realized with SPARCK, an open source software to create multi-projection installations and handles multiple render passes, transformation hierarchies and projector calibration.

Motion Capture

At the IASpace the Optitrack System is used to track blimps with a large volume.

To send Optitracks native NATNET protocoll to the manager and SPARCK, the NatNetThree2OSC application is used.

Additional info

some additional info might be found on this miro board, though ultimately all data should find its way into this repo.

Licenses

All text and pictures are licensed under CC-BY-NC

All code is licensed under MIT.

Credits

created by IASpace, Zürich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

  • Max Kriegleder - Robotics, motion control, sensor integration
  • Joel Gähwiler - Micro-controller, networks, protocols
  • Roman Jurt - Materials, rapid prototyping, construction
  • Serena Cangiano - Theory
  • Martin Fröhlich - Lead, motion tracking, projection mapping

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