Sandbox - Augmented Reality og højdemodeller

The purpose of this project is to facilitate the process of creating a height model with your hands. The idea is that sand in a box is moulded with the hands and creates some structures. These structures are caught by a 3D camera from above and calculated in a computer and transformed into height curves and height information. That information is projected onto the sand in colours in real-time. You can also introduce water into the model and visualise how water will run in the structures.

By forming the sand with your hands, you will immediately see what happens when the landscape changes and this will start the creative and playing aspects. The beautiful visualisations in the sandbox inspire to create new structures and facilitates thoughts and ideas about landscape forms and the nature of water for new target groups

Sandbox is built by Aalborg University in autumn 2017 in cooperation with Geoforum Denmark and shown at Hachathon in Create building 3rd and 4th November 2017 and during Danish Map Days 2017 in Aalborg Congress and Convention Centre 8th - 10th November 2017.