Paint with Light (2022–2023)

Make your room your own Sistine Chapel.

While working on the Everywhere Cursor project, I built a demo of a painting system with projection mapping and a Vicon motion-tracked brush to explore tangibility and creativity.

Expanding on this idea, I wanted to enable anyone to become a painter of any objects in their room, like how Michaelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Many people probably remember doodling on their desks or on the wall and getting scolded by the teacher, their parents, etc. Maybe this time, drawing with light will allow us to unleash our childhood creativity with the world as a canvas.

I loved (and still love) playing Minecraft as a kid, so my mind went to a Minecraft skin editor as a fun demo to showcase the system.

What I’ve done

Concept Creation; Made hardware and software adjustments to the projection mapping system; Set up the Vicon tracking system; Developed the painting system in Unity.