Yesterday I spent some time looking at the remarkable project called EyeWriter. It’s an open source and open content research effort to give people suffering from ALS a simple way to communicate with their eyes.

The motivation came from an artist called TEMPT and therefore the project has this description “It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.”

Homepage: http://www.eyewriter.org/

Then I (re)came across a wonderful piece of software called openframeworks: “openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit

for creative coding.”

The galley provides awesome examples of the projects people are creating.

Watch what it can do on their website: http://www.openframeworks.cc/

I guess DISPLAX (by Edigma) uses this project, together with opencv.

There also some interesting work by Estúdio Ruim: http://ruim.pt/work/

JP, did you have a look at this subjects?

OpenFrameworks
Processing
Cinder
Computer Vision (OpenCV)
Generative animation
Computer graphics (OpenGL, shaders, etc..)

If not, do so.