Video projectors are all the rage in ‘new media’ art these days. For example, this project featured over at we make money not art shows a piece where a projector distorts a projected image in order to cover a 3-D surface:

This is kinda cool. It requires you to create a 3-D ‘map’ of the object configuration and calibrate the projector with the objects. What would really be cool is if the objects (including projectors) themselves could describe their dimensions, location and orientation to the system and the whole thing could auto-calibrate. If accurate enough, multiple projectors and objects in motion in a space would be possible. What would be even cooler is to attach particular images to particular objects. It seems like with gyros, accelerometers, RFIDs and some wireless communication protocol, you could pull this off. And it’d be really cool.

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