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Mike and Dave looking at the screen display on the sensor grid 3D model of our sensor grid the dexion frame of our sensor grid

This experimental work from around 2001 was part of a Year of the Artist residency at LUTCHI, the HCI section of Loughborough University's Computer Science department. There were no plans to exhibit it without creating a portable version from the original idea.

The code was written in C++, calling OpenGL and using Inventor libraries on a Silicon Graphics Onyx running IRIX. We considered porting it to a PC or OS X.

The EPROM infra-red sensors are simple binary switches - breaking a beam (white lines in the middle image) triggered a signal that our software converted to a live dynamic 3D visual representation of movement across the enclosed space.