Same space, different space - communicate through colors

Authors

YoungHyun Chung, Seung Joon Choi, Mid eum Shin

Communicating only by colors without spoken and written languages, "Find The Spot" is the locative media project which explores how people percept and express colors when communicating solely through colors - without spoken or written language.

Flickr, a photo sharing website, was used to become a repository of images to be crawled by our team’s real time mosaic system, and Gmail, a free webmail site, became the receptor of multimedia messages from mobile phones.

original and mosaicked

Keywords

Participation, Locative media, Mobile devices, Color sensation, Programming, Internet

Implementation

Mobile phone with camera, Multimedia messaging service(MMS), Wireless internet, Processing, Flash, Gmail, flickr.com(yahoo), NeuQuant neural-net quantization algorithm for matching each mosaic cell to certain color, Image mosaic (photomosaic technique)


    
1. original image at KyungBokGung(place A)  2. picking colors with phone at MyungDong(place B)

    
2. making a color palette with picked colors    4. mosaicked image

Colors taken by User 1


Colors taken by User 2

Additional info

• Exhibited at Urban Vibe: The Art of Playing City, Seoul, Korea (2005)