A study on the aesthetics of mapping in the context of augmented reality, cooked with three major ingredients:

• • Flickr: outstanding source of photographic material, by folks / for folks.
• • Camera matching: the art of turning pictures into 3d spaces.
• • Real-time 3d flow of text and textures over surfaces.

Ho Tokyo, Tokyo

Camouflage texture coupled with biblical oracle on the siege of Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:1-8), flowing over the facade of a Bauhaus style building, presumably in Tokyo...

control

• • Zoom in-and-out with the mouse-wheel.
• • Drag with the mouse to pan inside the picture.
• • Press the space-bar to reveal the underlying photo.

Rock around the bunker

Camouflage texture coupled with lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg, flowing over the protuberant boxes on the facade of the musée du quai Branly, Jean Nouvel's latest Parisian coup.

control

• • Zoom in-and-out with the mouse-wheel.
• • Drag with the mouse to pan inside the picture.
• • Press the space-bar to reveal the underlying photo.

Freestyle 1 (from Weimar to Kingston)

Black and white travelling on Bauhaus balcony followed by rasta-stripped redempting deluge.

Freestyle 2 (décamouflé de Branly)

Fleur de lis textured half-boxes, with matching speechless descending caps...

acknowledgments

• • Thanks to bourget_82 for granting rights to use her photo of the Branly museum.
• • The lyrics mapped on the Branly museum are from Serge Gainsbourg's Rock around the bunker, 1975.
• • The Tokyo building photo by Kimi Iwasaki is under this creative commons license.
• • Biblical content has been obtained from the following sources.