While on Eyebeam.org, I found a working project that is most interesting. Aaron Meyers and Kyle McDonald create this particular project during October of this year. Meyers and McDonald are other wise unknown and there was not much information to be found. The work of art is called “People.Points” and is a real time 3D scanning installation. “People.Points” uses a technique called structured light to transform a live webcam feed into an animated, morphing and transforming 3D point cloud. This technique called structured light is the process of projecting a known pattern of pixels on to a scene. The way that these images deform when striking surfaces allows vision systems to calculate the depth and surface information of the objects in the scene, such as used in structured light 3D scanners. Meyer and McDonald but also a number of police forces use structured light for the purpose of photographing fingerprints in a 3D scene. In other words, the camera is used to digitally flatten out a fingerprint, rather than having to use tape. Meyer and McDonald are using this technology as an installation idea, taking a person’s features and digitally making them flat. I found this to be a very interesting project however once I started reading into it I noticed it seemed a bit unguided. There doesn’t seem to be a purpose other than to view the human body in a digitally flattened manor. However, there are many pieces of art that seem to not have a purpose or reason for being created but that does not make them art. I enjoyed reading about this art project even though its purpose seemed a tad lost.