Project: Dynamics in Color

Originally started as a personal project, an ongoing research into movement, I started separating RGB channels of shot footage. This technique I used earlier to obtain stereoscopic film, but this time the 3D component played no part. When B&W footage was split into its RGB components, a subtle delay of a few frames visualized motion by color appearing. Extending the delay time resulted in an upscaling from movement to dynamics. B&W represents static matter, while colors show dynamics.

Or with only a few frames delay, we detect motion:

Dynamics: Station from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.

While when we upscale the ‘delay’, each color channel represents it’s own timeline; there is virtually no black & white left, as the intensity of the sunshine in the red channel may differ from the other channels, shifting the color balance, resulting in coloring the grass blue…

Dynamics: Birds III from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.

The next step was to do this on the fly with live input. This project was written using Max/MSP+Jitter. The installation works live, delay adjustable on the fly, black & white imagery can be cancelled out:

Dynamics: Walking from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.

Dynamics: People from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.

The project has featured during the ArtEZ Arnhem Exhibition 2008, on KONIJN2000 and in Studio K. Maybe the biggest compliment has been that it was especially well received by junior spectators. UPDATE: The project will feature as a permanent installation at the NEMO Science center!