This GitHub contains all software sketches and technical documentation for Final Master Project: Making Motion. The project takes shape through Aerial Sketching - a kinetic installation allowing to design kinetic expressivity of suspended fabrics through embodied interaction. Aerial Sketching consists of three kinetic winches by Wahlberg Motion Design. Interaction is driven by Google Mediapipe Hand Detection. All data handling and interaction is facilitated with TouchDesigner. The installation allows to create visual representation of interaction (Kinetic Captures) which are printed with a Dymo Labelprinter through a custom python-script.
Thomas Kaufmanas, Eindhoven, 2025
- MakingMotion.toe: Main Touchdesigner script for running Aerial Sketching
- print_watcher.py: Script for printing kinetic captures with dymo label printer
- /Documentation: Photos and strucutal plans
Version History:
- Sketch01.toe: Track XY of index finger tips
- Sketch02.toe: Track pinchpoints (thumb/indx finger), export XY
- Sketch03.toe: Link pinchpoints to winch, add smoothing
- Sketch04.toe: Map to three winches (left/right average)
- Sketch05.toe: Cursor-style pinchpoints
- Sketch06.toe: Added cases (0, 1 or 2 hands present)
- Sketch07.toe: Added GUI
- Sketch10.toe: Rebuild data-path of landmarks
- Sketch11.toe: Added mid-winch tilt (wrist-index finger distance)
- Sketch12.toe: Added Smoothing (liveliness) from hand distance
- Sketch13.toe: Added Sampling. Rebuild GUI for perform-mode
- Sketch14.toe: Remove hand-distance smoothing. Rebuild mid-winch tilt (from z-distance),
- Sketch15.toe: Update Indexing sampler through range slider
- Sketch16.toe: Added point cloud from sample data
- Sketch17.toe: Update point cloud (kinetic capture)
- Sketch18.toe: Added label export + full res export
- Sketch19.toe: Update label pipeline
- MakingMotion.Toe: Script optimization and general cleanup
