Google NYC Lobby Flowers
Flowers is a graceful and dynamic installation made up of 160 electromechanical flowers that suspend from the ceiling of Google's 9th Ave lobby in NYC.
The flowers open and close in response to the movement of people in the lobby and outside on the street, creating a living, breathing sculpture that reflects the activity of the space.
I built all of the software for the project, including:
- Real-time people tracking using depth camera data
- Privacy-preserving sensing using depth data only, with no facial recordings
- Projection and mapping from physical world space to the flower installation's coordinate system
- A gesture recognition system that let people trigger special flower animations through poses
- A remote control dashboard for operating and monitoring the installation
- Serial communication with the flower hardware to control opening and closing behavior