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"A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean"

  
 

On Saturday June 4, 2011, after decades of inactivity, Puyehue volcano ejected a plume of ash 10 kilometers high and five wide. This led to a natural disaster with strong environmental and financial impacts in the region. At the same time, the ash that is now killing thousands of living beings, ensures the fertility of the region for years to come.

The same ash is the raw material of this work. Efecto Mariposa ("butterfly effect") is an interactive installation that provides the opportunity to explore destruction and creation, which are combined in an infinite fractal dance, demonstrating the ability of life to cut through the face of adversity.

This is done by simulating an ecosystem on the surface of a set of real-time volcanic ash. The interactor can modify with his own hands the "topology"and the "atmosphere" of this virtual world, unleashing all sorts of climatic and topographic changes that directly influence the conditions of life.

The invitation is to alternate the perception among the micro and the macro to discover the complexity and richness of the world around us, as well as to realize our participation and responsibility in this whole.

  
 

 
 
 

+ Software: the software (call Eden App) was develop specially for this proyects using openFrameworks, custom GLSL shaders and openNI drivers for Kinect Sensor. It was also desingned to be an education tool for interdisciplinary learning. It´s easy relative easy and cheap to replicate at school. For controling all the variables that this real-time simulation could bring I design another openSource software for iOS devices call EdenControll App. If you are interested on making a contribution to this project, this is an excelent starting point. Please take a look to the code at hosted on my [ gitHub account ] and start thinking how you could use or applie this technology to you classroom or university.

 
 
 
 

+ More? Take a look to making process pictures and exposition at the Centro Cultural Español en Buenos Aires.
 
 
 

This project was part of the production workshop of CCEBA mediaLab. [More Info...]

  
 

 

  
 

Also I want to thanks to:

- CCEBA coordinators and jury: Emiliano Causa, Matias Romero Costas and Federico Joselevich

- Volcanic Ash: Andres Rey and Juan Rey

- Ironworks: Juan Manuel Toconas

- Model of the rock: Fabian Nonino

- Teaching of openGL and Shader Lenguajes: Fabricio Costa

- Logo and app icons Design: Jovana de Obaldia ( La Mola web&art )

- Photography and Video: Joaquin Aras, Agustin Anzorena y Tomas Rawski