Thoughtworks Arts

Biofields

Residency Season: Winter 2017

Project Team

Biofields is an open-source framework combining biosensors with volumetric and interval arithmetic simulations to interactively model the feeling of energy around the body.

A digitized human sitting in a VR landscape
Conceptual representation for Biofields VR experience

Aided by Lewey Geselowitz on body simulation and rendering, the project draws from traditional circulatory anatomy, eastern medicine, simulation techniques and biosensor innovations.

A grid showing relational metrics
Relational metrics used to define biofields

The idea is to support overlapping fields of thermal, photonic, heart-rate, EM frequencies, and various colors to combine and interpolate multiple single-point biosensors into spatial-fields of real-time imagery in VR.

This piece is currently a work-in-progress.