[Example of Use of Motion and Colour Detection]
Ants - Philip Worthington
Yoon: His another project which called "Ants" is another generative table based installation about ants' life. Digitised ants seeking objects on the table and they connect each object as a way.
Yoon: During the interview (Pictures and interview - http://www.worthersoriginal.com/viki/#page=shadowmonsters), Philip Worthington explains ants find where the objects are and what colour they are too. So ants go to find objects and make colourful corridors. This looks like a digital version of a toy called "Ant Farm (1968)".
Yoon: Jose M. Hernandez describes this as an "underground architecture" in his book Antfarm Retrospective (2004). And Worthington uses the characteristic of ants into his project and has made people can make their own architecture from their belongings with ants.
Technically, first camera and the infrared table define where the object is, and they send ants to it, then second camera detects their colour. Then the generative algorithm colour the corridor in the matched colour. And the motion detection runs all the time that it can track their moves.
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