Vision Mosaic: Exploring Perception Through Technology
Exploring Perception Through Technology
Vision Mosaic is an interactive digital artwork that visualises how we see and process information. Using real-time eye-tracking data, it transforms focus and movement patterns into a constantly evolving digital mosaic, where each participant leaves a unique visual imprint.
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The Concept
The project captures how participants engage with stereograms—optical illusions that reveal hidden images when viewed with the right focus. As users scan the visuals, their gaze determines how colours, shapes, and motion unfold. Each interaction generates a personalised digital tile, which becomes part of a growing, collective artwork.
How It Works
Vision Mosaic combines eye-tracking technology, real-time data processing, and generative visuals to create an interactive experience. The system uses MediaPipe to track eye movements, monitoring gaze shifts, fixation points, and movement speed. This data is then processed in TouchDesigner, where it is mapped to colour, motion, and composition.
Faster eye movements produce sharper contrasts and more erratic patterns, while longer periods of focus create smoother transitions and muted tones. Participants influence the mosaic by how they view the stereograms—whether scanning quickly, lingering in one place, or moving sporadically. The result is a visual record of how each person interprets the illusion, woven into the larger piece in real time.
Visualising the Data
Each participant’s engagement shapes the mosaic through colour, movement, and structure, processed in MediaPipe and visualised in TouchDesigner.
Colour shifts based on gaze speed—warm tones like red and orange emerge from rapid eye movement, while cool tones like blue and green indicate sustained focus. Faster scanning increases brightness and contrast, while steady viewing creates softer gradients.
Movement reflects how the eyes navigate the stereogram. Sporadic scanning results in sharp, rapid motion, while longer focus generates smooth, flowing transitions.
Structure is defined by fixation points. Where a participant lingers most influences particle behaviour—controlled attention produces balanced patterns, while erratic focus leads to fragmented, high-energy formations.
Each tile becomes a real-time representation of perception, evolving as new interactions shape the larger mosaic.
Future Potential
Vision Mosaic merges digital art, technology, and human interaction. It has applications in exhibitions, immersive experiences, and brand activations, offering a way to visualise perception through real-time data. Future versions may explore deeper integration with live tracking, making the experience even more interactive and personalised.
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