Interactive "Starry Night" adds a touch of movement

Petros Vrellis created this interactive, animated version of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, where the viewer can send impressions swirling with a touch. [Creative Applications] Previously.

• [Neil Winkelmann]

  Cool idea. I was a bit annoyed by the “pan-and-scan” video, though. I would have preferred just to see the whole image.

• [barnaby]

  I once took mushrooms and saw this painting at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This is exactly what it looked like.

  • [Derek Vandivere]

    You must have been high – Starry Night’s at the MOMA in New York. Hasn’t been here since I moved in ’94…

• [Mitchell Powers]

  This music is not so great. Country Teasers, maybe.

• [Joseph Francis]

  Reminds me a little of this Martin Wattenberg site from 1997 -
  http://www.bewitched.com/m/night.html

• [Joseph Francis]

  When Tom Brigham was working out some of the details to morphing back in the 80s, he animated smeared UV coordinates before mapping this painting to a similar effect.

• [Donny Viszneki]

  I never realized this painting wasn’t already kinetic… now the original will seem boring by comparison.

  A truly inspired 21st century redux.

• [Gordon Klock]

  Don’t know what Vincent would of thought of this….

  • [Noctilucent Studios]

    I want to think he would have loved it.

    I certainly do.

• [rikomatic]

  I thought the Second Life version of “Starry Night” was even better, back in the day.  You could wander the streets of the painting! http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/07/remake-the-star.html

• [Pravin Yadav]

  Congrats Petros Vrellis for carrying forward the dream seen by Van Gogh and thanks Roger Weiss for evincing it. Art never has any constraint, it’s a free flowing expression. Artist develops a universe around the concept. It’s like a black hole that grapples, gratifies and swallows viewers mind. Viewer’s freedom is also deliberate act of an Artist to play with viewer’s mind. Don’t u think same things happen with us in real world…