Hello, I'd like to announce PlayApp, a processing library to stream processing sketches to Playhouse, an interactive lighting installation that will turn Liberty Hall, one of Dublin's most iconic buildings into a low-res colour display with sound.

PlayApp is a simple class that transmits every frame drawn by the sketch as a UDP packet. There is also a preview sketch that allows you to visualise your sketches as a 30x11 window animation on the building. Hello, I'd like to announce PlayApp, a software library for processing ( http://processing.org ) to stream processing sketches to Playhouse, an interactive lighting installation that will turn Liberty Hall into a low-res colour display with sound throughout the Dublin Theatre Festival in October.

PlayApp is a simple class that transmits every frame drawn by the sketch as a UDP packet. There is also a preview sketch that allows you to visualise your sketches as a 30x11 window animation on the building. Optionally, you can also take control of the top 'marquee' floor which has 7x5 greyscale pixels in each window, and use sound which will be broadcast on short range FM radio.

PlayApp as it stands can be used to display any kind of procedural graphics/ sound, or to visualise any kind of information from the internet.

We would love to show interactive PlayApp sketches which turn the building into an interactive sequencer or multiuser sketchpad, we are using osc to access the building from networked iphones and we are planning to add a way to get DTMF commands into processing via an asterisk server. However these types of applications will have to be run by special arrangement as they require more setup.

Playhouse will run from September 24th-October 19th.
Sketches and movies that play on the building will be documented with a camera facing the building and will be automatically archived.

http://playhouse.daft.ie/create/playapp/