14 DAY TRIAL // Paper art using Ferrofluids can be seen at times boring. They might be mesmerizing, but in time you realize that they are basically pretty flat. Well, this is what it happens when you combine both paper art, 3D projection mapping and tessellation. It's basically a projection that follows the shapes of whatever material it is projected on.
Invented by Aristides Garcia, the interactive sculpture called Tesela uses a combination of projection mapping and tessellation algorithms to cast real-time patterns that are influenced by the viewers. The patterns form 103 paper pyramids and each time a projection goes above them, it forms a hypnotic effect turning into something similar to a living landscape.
However, the real star of the show is the 3D projection mapping that has the ability to put perceptions of volume, depth and space on one unmoving surface. Add to this a texturized project surface that is itself a work of art and you get a hypnotic effect like no other.
Garcia first showed Tesela in the Krake Festival in Berlin this August, having a musical background to it and using dynamic tessellation models managed to create visual illusions that he described as an “illusory metamorphic dream.”
It's interesting how artists manage to take art on new levels using the latest development in technology creating, ultimately, true illusions.