EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

My initial intentions for my final project was to achieve a real time conversion of video into what would look somewhat like a Kirlian photograph.  Kirlian Photography is accomplished by electrically charging the film  as it is exposed.  It comes in two forms, one which looks like lightning along the exposed edges of a sillouette, the other looks like hazy colored fog.  I decided to go for the lightning aesthetic.  To that goal, I did get a working prototype.  It generated pixel positions based off of differences in contrast in light and drew lines a curves some what perpendicular to the normal of those pixel positions.  This created lightning like edges.

Though technically, my prototype was successful, I did not really achieve the aural energy body feel that I was going for. As I plan on using this a starting point for a supporting piece for my thesis show, I have been scraping my brain how to bring this to the next level.  I plan on reimplimenting this script using IR cameras instead of visible light.  I feel this is the next important step to push the etheral quality of the energy body aesthetic I am tring to create.  At the very least, the transformation of unseen to seen will bring the project into a closer connection to simulated aural visualization.