CHROMAKAT
Digital Painting Installation with AR
8th Wall Tools Used:
A-Frame: Image Target Portal
A-Frame: Animation Mixer
Realtime Reflections
Splash Screen
A gateway to a surreal, neon-drenched dimension, Chromakat is a digital painting installation with augmented reality that transforms the static into the infinite. Using the A-FRAME image target tool and 8th Wall AR, this piece expands the boundaries of web-based augmented reality, seamlessly blending physical and digital realms.
When viewed through an AR-enabled device, a vibrant portal unfurls within the painting, revealing an otherworldly landscape—rolling neon-pink mountains and hyper-saturated plains shimmering under an electric sky. From this cosmic void emerges the bust of a cat, its glowing green eyes locked in an eerie omnipresent gaze, following the viewer from every angle. As it spins weightlessly in space, the feline specter pulses with energy, its form shifting between the digital and tangible, suspended in a perpetual state of observation.
Designed in Maya, the cat and its celestial backdrop were animated to create a dynamic AR illusion, evoking the sensation of stepping into a parallel universe. The stars swirl, gliding through an infinite void, amplifying the dreamlike quality of the experience.
This piece was inspired by Angie’s cat, Bacon, named after the legendary painter Francis Bacon—an artist known for distorting reality and bending perception, much like this digital apparition does in augmented space.
Chromakat is an experiment in AR-driven storytelling, inviting viewers to question the boundaries between the seen and the unseen, the static and the infinite.
