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Recompose: an actuated surface controlled by gestures

Rob Beschizza at 7:26 am Mon, Feb 14, 2011

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This remarkable gesture-controlled, actuated surface was created by Anthony DeVincenzi and others at MIT. Perhaps Mio I-zawa, creator of pulsating mechanical brains and cuddly elastic cells, could stretch a skinlike membrane over it to create a Oiuja board for David Cronenberg. Recompose [MIT via Creative Applications]

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slippy0

I didn’t work on this, but I worked on a project right next to it, and I know the guy who made it. We were originally going to incorporate it into our project but deadlines came around before we got there.

Recompose is based off of Relief (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDafpBaZu9Q), except uses a kinect to track hand gestures instead of using a mouse.
Anonymous

Weird that they don’t want you to watch their video.