Among the Puddles - An immersive 3D aquatic environment project

Context

«Among the puddles» is an immersive 3D aquatic environment project. We modelised, textured, animated all this univers. An horizontal screen immerge us in a puddle near the sea. We can interact with the flora and the fauna. We developped a sort of artificial intelligence that makes the fishes react by different ways when we approach them. Some of them will try to eat your finger and others will try to flee. This application could soon be used as a learning application to understand fishes’s behaviors. Its simplicity of use enables an intuitive and direct handling. The advantage of this application consist in adding rare fishes, hard to observe in their environment and scripting their behaviors in order to share them with a community organised around this project.

Technology and feature

The system involved is very simple. From a multi-touch table, we collect tracking datas using "Community Core Vision". It allows us to calibrate the screen and the action sensitivity. The tracking is then sent to "TUIOmouse" software enabling to harvest the multi-points and the mouse tracking. All these datas are then collected on "Virtools" that manages them and react with the fingers’s position.