Process

Collagescape is an interactive experience for generating digital collages from art on my bedroom walls. I created this tool in October 2023 as part of my Interactive Installations course at NYU. It's made with Max/MSP/Jitter, a family of visual programming tools for creating interactive audio/visual projects.

• Take photo of posters on bedroom wall
• Using Photoshop, remove one poster from the wall per layer
• Export Photoshop frames into a video
• Load video into Max
• Max mousestate controls video playback, creating the effect that the mouse cursor moves over posters to make them disappear from the wall
• Max targets the background color of the wall to chroma key
• Max replaces the wall with another image, like stars or clouds
• Mess with settings to create interesting visual effects

This is what the "code" looks like. If you have Max installed, you can take a closer look here.

Interactions

• Mouse x-position: collage video playback
• Mouse y-position: RGB scalebias for active color channel
• R: activate red channel
• G: activate green channel
• B: activate blue channel
• C: activate chroma keyed background
• S: take a screenshot

Along with some controls within the patch UI to control brightness, contrast, saturation, selecting chroma key color, and crossfading between the stars and sky chroma key backgrounds.