Thirsty Puppy
Generative Media
2025

Blink to Decorate

Face tracking experiment

Creative Technologist  ·  TouchDesigner / Mediapipe

Mediapipe's face mesh gives you precise points around each eye that let you calculate an eye aspect ratio. The experiment was to use that threshold event as a trigger rather than a continuous control: a blink fires once, causes something to happen, and resets.

I mapped it to a generative decoration system where each blink places an element in the scene. The silliness of the output was deliberate, it kept the focus on the visual rather than making something that looked like complex interaction.