Vincent Van Gogh's "interactive" starry night

Petros Vrellis, a Greek digital artist, has recreated Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, one of the most well-known and considered works of the Dutch artist, but turning it into a live paint using a touch screen and the framework known as openFrameworks, thus achieving that any viewer is able to change the course of the winds that appear in digital painting with the touch of their hands.

The Greek digital artist Petros Vrellis has given life in an interactive piece the famous painting The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, painted there by 1889, one year before his death and since 1941 is part of the MOMA collection (the Museum of Modern Art in New York). Using a touch screen and openFrameworks, this Hellenic artist has created, from this table, an interactive work with which the observer can interact by playing with the shapes of the painting itself, added to the sound itself that will match that interaction.

In its digital version The Starry Night is apparently alive since through animation, the strokes of the sky, trunk, City and other elements are in a continuous harmonious movement that is a bit mesmerizing.. However, the viewer-user can modify it with their fingers., you simply have to tap a section of the box and drag the "painting" in any direction, which will affect the flow of colors over the image, changing the composition for a few seconds. And after a short period, the painting returns to its original image.

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