3D Vector Field with Kinect from Nick Hardeman on Vimeo.

This is an initial experiment using the kinect to generate a 3D vector field. This would not be possible without the efforts of the OF team and other people openly hacking the kinect.
Some images on flickr can be seen here.


The snow is particles are a bill-boarded sprite sheet and rendered with a simple depth of field algorithm.
In the image below you can see the original snow flake image, the final blurred image and the resulting sprite sheet. The z distance from the eye center determines the corresponding blurriness image index and sets the texture coordinates in the sprite sheet.


The rendered snow