Using Body Tracking to Create a Typeface
Following a brief given on my BA at Central Saint Martins, I had to use design systems and language to enable a third party to recreate a typeface, without them seeing the original type. I was given OCR-A, a typeface created in 1968 by the American Type Founders. It was designed so that a computer could recognise the type from an image. It is a landmark in technical innovation and image recognition.
Having learnt this I wanted to use a modern form of computer vision to recreate the typeface that started it all.
At the beginning of the project I had very little coding skills, and only through tutorials, trial, error and experimentation was I able to complete the outcome.
For the final outcome I linked different points on the body, that if a person stood in the right position, would recreate a letter in AR.
This uses only the webcame on your computer.
Try the interactive experience for yourself here:
https://jamesmack.000webhostapp.com/
This project was only a week long.