Building portraits using physical pixels, then animating them to create simple movies.
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| Children build portraits using physical pixels – blocks with a white face and a black face. Drawings are created by flipping pixels on a pixel tabletop. When the portrait is ready, the overhead camera takes a first snapshot. Then, pixels are changed and another snapshot is taken, and then again... On a screen, the snapshots are presented in sequence - an instant animated movie. As each snapshot is taken, the animation grows. Different resolutions can be experienced via the two different pixels tables: one has 12-by-12 pixels and one has 24-by-24 pixels. In Pixel Materiali children explore iconic representation, the constraints of the pixel world and the basic principles of animation. |
