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For this years company christmas party at hpc we handed a plushed toy to every customer that visited us, which was a donation for the St Anna Child Cancer Research Center

We had a Panda, a Sheep and a Rabbit. We tagged the animals with a barcode and for every animal we handed out we added one to the virtual playground on our multitouch table. Our visitors could search their animals using a barcode scanner. When a barcode was scanned the image was centered around the animal and it was paused for some seconds.

The swarm simulation is a processing app that uses the same alghorithm as a openframeworks demo app I wrote a year ago.

The animals are animated by cycling through six svg-images per figure that are rotated to the right direction.

I made a slightly simplified version that runs as an applet. click here to start the sketch or download the sourcecode.