Interactive 3D Aquarium

Interactive 3D Aquarium is an interactive exhibit created for the stereoscopic 3D display wall in the LAVA lab at UH Mānoa. Visitors scan a QR code to draw their own fish on their phone, then put on 3D glasses to watch it swim around the tank with everyone else's.

Each drawing is applied as a texture onto a 3D fish model, so every fish in the tank was designed by someone who visited. Fish are saved as they are uploaded, so when the application is turned back on it brings in all the fish created by previous visitors and the tank keeps growing over time.

Interactive 3D Aquarium was a project I was lead developer on at LAVA. I worked on the Unity aquarium and its stereoscopic rendering, the flocking (boids) system that drives the fish, the drawing webapp, and the server that sends new fish to the tank in real time over WebSockets.