Group Members: Aaditya Vaze and Joanne John.

Concept Statement

Dancing pairs aims to revolutionize dance performances on stages and nightclubs. Connected through the Dancing Pairs app, each member of the crowd contributes to the 3D visualization that is on the screen as they dance with their phones either in their pockets, or in their hands.

Each person on the dance floor is represented by a blob, and as they move in different directions the accelerometer values from their phones are collected. The real-time animations reflect these movements as they step side to side, backwards and forwards, or jump up and down, resulting in their blob moving in a similar fashion. Once all the dancers start moving, their blobs merge to become one megablob – thus, creating a collective. These visualizations can then be projected onto the stage’s backdrop, or on the dance floor’s LED screens.

At the current stage, the app only supports 2 users, but in the long term, it would be able to host 100s. We have developed an iOS app which transfers the accelerometer data to p5.js via bluetooth. Using three.js and Marching Cubes we have implemented 3D metaballs (blobs) which can join and become one if they are close apart, and create an interesting abstract visualization.

Experience Video // How it Works Video // GitHub Link

final images

mockup of dancing pairs in a nightclub or concert setting

Process and Development

network diagram

References

[1] https://github.com/alexanderlavrushko/BLEProof-collection/tree/main/iOS/BLEProofPeripheral

[2] https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_marchingcubes.html