I was approached by Fresh to produce this interactive voting wall for Santander which would be shown at London’s Earl’s Court 2 on a 5x2m screen.
The whole conference was based around momentum and had a lot of graphical items produced in Photoshop and motion graphics piece’s had been put together with lots of stunning light beams moving around, so the main challenge of the project was that the voting wall needed to reflect the same feel and graphical style and work at a fluid 30fps+ so Flash was not going to cut it this time.
After having a play with Openframewors I quickly got the app built and it could handle around 100+ fluid moving light beams across the screen using some nice OpenGL blending equations to finish the effect off, plus a custom built particle engine to add a bit more depth, and then finally a screen saving which with a quick math equation produced a never ending loop of ribbons until the voting wall was interacted with.
To get the votes onto the wall there had been some touch screen kiosk’s setup by my good friends Mr Adam Palmer, which with a bit of Flash magic of my own I created a socket server to have them talk directly into the Openframeworks app.