Starry Night (interactive animation video)

This is an interactive video of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night. This video is an incredible tribute to the impressionist painting of the Milky Way and night sky over Saint Rémy in France.

Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

The brush strokes of the painting swirl and rotate with the flow of the painting. This has been developed for touch screens. When you touch the painting it moves the brush strokes! Then the painting will slowly return to its original state. The sounds in the video respond to touch also.

This is just a video at this time. It appears that the designer is currently working on converting it to apps for the iPhone and Android.

Actually, this wasn't even made in Flash! It was made with a program that I haven't even heard of called openFrameworks. openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit.

I'm actually taking a painting class this semester with an emphasis on impressionism, so this was particularly interesting to me.


-Rose