Metamorphosis is a collection of interactive moving posters that address the current “metamorphosis” of the planet Earth due to the current climatic changes, i.e. the posters inform about the causes and consequences of some of the current environmental problems, especially focusing on human impact.
Currently, the explored subjects are Air Pollution, Biodiversity loss, Deforestation, Global Warming, Noise Pollution, Water Pollution, and Waste production.
Screenshots of the developed online gallery presenting all the posters (left) and the interaction with the Loss of Diversity poster in an online environment (right).
The online gallery collecting the developed posters is accessible at cdv.dei.uc.pt/2021/metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis is a work-in-progress project. This way, some code optimisations and debugging may be necessary. Feel free to use and modify the code. Let us know if you have any issues or suggestions.
imgssome screenshots of the project's setup and posters.srcsource code of the developed posters.
Metamorphosis still a work-in-progress project and code repository present a preliminary nature. This way, the posters could not run properly in your machine. Feel free to geting in touch with us if you have any issue.
The presented poster designs were designed to be displayed both physically (e.g. in an outdoor interactive display) and virtually (e.g. on a dedicated online gallery). The only setup required is access to the captures of a webcam and microphone. The features of posters (e.g. format, size, elements placement position, etc.) were defined in a parametric manner.
- Distinct Faces From Pose Net method
- P5.js library was used for manipulating and rendering the posters.
- ML5.js library was used to facilitate access to Machine Learning models
- Matter.js library was used as a physics engine.
- Metamorphosis online gallery
- Metamorphosis project page
- Poster Factory (related project)
- Posters moving versions
- Supplementary images
- Gonçalves, R., Rebelo, S.M., Lopes, D., and Rebelo, A. (2022) Promoting climate awareness through the design of interactive moving posters, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.741
- Gonçalves, R. (2021). Metamorphosis: Experiments in the Design of Interactive Moving Posters (MSc dissertation, Design and Multimedia, Universidade de Coimbra). https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/98072
- Ricardo Gonçalves (concept, design and developement)
- Sérgio M. Rebelo (suport and supervision,
srebelo@dei.uc.pt) - Daniel Lopes (suport and supervision,
dfl@dei.uc.pt) - Artur Rebelo (supervision)
Work developed in the context of an MSc dissertation of Ricardo Gonçalves in Design and Multimédia of the University of Coimbra in the CDV lab. of CMS/CISUC.
This work is partially supported by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, within the scope of the project UID/CEC/00326/2019. Sérgio M. Rebelo is funded by FCT under the grant SFRH/BD/132728/2017 and COVID/BD/151969/2021. Daniel Lopes is funded by FCT under the grant SFRH/BD/143553/2019.
Usage is provided under the MIT License.