The San Francisco indoor mini-golf course, bar and restaurant features an installation that combines the ghost illusion and projection mapping to allow a computer-generated character to “interact” with golf balls.
Urban Putt, an intricate indoor mini-golf course complete with a bar and restaurant that opened last year in San Francisco, is featuring an installation by Dan Rosenfeld, the San Francisco-based SFist reported.
“Sleepwalkers” is a mini-golf hole that incorporates your ball, which you put in and peer at through a crack in the wall. Rosenfeld’s work combines the ghost illusion and projection mapping to allow a computer-generated character to appear to interact with real world objects like the golf ball, and your hand, SFist reported.
The installation has been visible since Urban Putt opened last spring, but it’s taken some time and tinkering to get it fully functional, SFist reported.
According to the Sleepwalkers website:
“Participants are encouraged to put their golf ball into an entrance in the wall. After a few seconds of rattling, the ball becomes visible through an opening in the broken lathe, stuck inside the wall. The goal is to figure out how to get the ball out from behind the wall so it can be used to play the adjacent mini golf course.
“A source of light seems to be moving inside, towards an opening in the bottom of the wall. Inside that opening, a small luminous being is visible, standing on piece of wood, slumped over and depleted.
“Participants interact with the being by putting their arms through ceramic portholes in the wall, using their hands to first provide ‘energy’ to the being and then to provide a physical platform for it to jump onto.
“In the top opening, the being seems to push the ball, dislodging it and ejecting it from a hole in the wall.”
Rosenfeld created a video to further explain the installation:
Sleepwalkers from Dan Rosenfeld on Vimeo.
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