My new book, Origami Quest, teaches Origami, the art of Japanese paper folding, as part of a storybook. Follow on an adventure through a wild forest and learn how to fold each of the animals you meet.
Title:Origami Quest – a fold along adventure
By Dr. Clement Shimizu & Zeth
Art by Yulika Murakami & Aya Avalon, Origami by Mathieu Troullier
For the Artists In the Cube Performance Series
Tomodachi Mall of America
Concept and Vinyl Installation by Dr. Clement Shimizu / Carol Tridade
Living Doll Performance by Carol Trindade
Comic Art by Jason Craig
Special Thanks Denny Park, Tomodachi Staff, Helena Shimizu, and Jason Nelson
Photos By Denny Park and Clement Shimizu
I built a video game-style joystick system to control a human dancer pretending to be a robot. The system would transmit a graphic of the joystick moves and button presses to a covert electronic status display for the dancer to incorporate into physical dance moves. Carol Trindade performed as the dancer for @LoadingFestival in downtown Miami. To comply with COVID best practices, Carol was dancing inside of clear glass box while passers by would use the joystick which was located on the other side of the glass box.
For @LoadingFestival in Downtown Miami March 14/2021
Concept, Hardware and software by Dr. Clement Shimizu
Robot Dancer performance by @CarolTrindadeArtist
I was invited back for Pirate Jam 2020. It was a crazy time because when we started the trip it was at the rising edge of COVID. In this video, you can see me talk about combining stop motion clay animation with 2D sprite animation game engine technology to animate a Dragon. You can see the final game and makeshift arcade cabinet below.
Super CubeMapper is a simple yet advanced solution to generate and send real-time cube maps or 360 equirectangular texture maps from Unity3d based applications to other applications via texture sharing (Spout, Syphon, NDI).
Dr. Clement Shimizu and the Elumenati
(available on the Unity3D asset store)
Commissioned for MIF festival in Machester, England
Paloma Dawkins Game Concept & Direction
Jlin Composer
Dr. Clement Shimizu Program Architect
Pariah Interactive Game Developer
James B Stringer Game Audio Designer
Ashley Obscura Writer
Brennan Letkeman 3D Artist
Evan Lovejoy Concept Artist
Dan Hett Technical Producer
Download it here:
https://palgal.itch.io/songsofthelost
5 Player 3D Pacman By Dr. Clement Shimizu and Keita Takahashi
For Keita Takahashi’s Zooming Out exhibition at Telfair museum, Dr. Clement Shimizu was invited to develop a new iteration of 3D-Pacman. Keita Takahashi requested a 5 player pacman slightly tweaked rules. Because of the immersive nature of the space, the installation called for 5x wireless arcade joysticks color coded to Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde, and Pacman. It was also important that the joysticks stay paired so the color codes would stay paired and consistently color coded.
I ended up building my own 2.4 GHz wireless joystick system that would keep all consistent and reliable without having to deal with bluetooth pairing which can be problematic in a museum environment. My friend Trevor McDonald helped with 3D printing the enclosures.
3D Pacman Game Dr. Clement Shimizu and Keita Takahashi
Original Pacman Game By: Toru Iwatani property of Namco Bandai
Original 3D Pacman game for Babycastles
3D Printing by: Trevor McDonald
Feb 2019 Telfair Museum
3D Projection System Sponsored By Elumenati
https://www.elumenati.com/news/3d-pacman-immersive-gaming-at-the-telfair-museum/
Download the electronics wiring diagram here:
https://gitlab.com/drclementshimizu/3dpacman-joystick-electronics
and the 3D printing model here:
https://3dmixers.com/m/171776-ergonomic-joystick-box-with-button-plain-pac-man-style
Dr. Clement Shimizu was a contestant on Pirate Jam 2019 in Thailand. This game jam, had contestants build video games while sailing through Thailand on a fleet of yachts. Clement teamed up with Paloma Dawkins to create Award-Winning Virtual Plant game that won the top prize. The fabulous NY recording artist Katie Rush provided the soundtrack.
The game combined procedural life through L-Systems with hand-drawn art animations in a plant-growing simulator.
You can learn more about Pirate Jam here:
https://www.pirate-jam.com/
And see the season 2019 here (there are 5 episodes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UyWCvMsK4
Learn about Paloma Dawkins:
https://palomadawkins.com/
Katie Rush
https://linktr.ee/KatieRushRush
Download the game here:
https://apps.apple.com/za/app/award-winning-virtual-plant
This is a very humbling award because I was only a very small part of a big team including my crew including D’nardo Colucci, Clayton, Hilary McVicker, Michael Ford, Ken Yager, Juan, Daryl, Kathy Fortier, Tony Berger, Adam Wales, and the rest of The Elumenati and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
My talk for the Ideas In Sight Lecture Series at Savanah College of Art and Design: The University for Creative Careers. In this talk, I talk about my history being an academic, entrepreneur, and artist. And pass along some of the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way.
Side note to artists: SCAD is a great art school in a wonderful city. For some creative careers, it has the highest levels of job placement of any college! Check it out.
Recorded on Feb 3, 2017
Babycastles Bank Manhattan’s Deposits Only is a video game built out of a hacked ATM machine for Babycastles gallery. The purpose of the game is to raise money for the gallery. The ATM was hacked to only accept money via a coin and bill slot and not give money out. The high-score screen shows how much money was donated to the gallery. Since its delivery, the game has brought in thousands of dollars in donations.
Dr. Clement Shimizu – ATM Hack
Krll Honn – NodeJS based high score screen
Levi Yourchuck – Machining
“When the Children’s Museum of Manhattan began work on our exhibition six years ago, it was our dream to be able transport visitors around the world. With the help of the Elumenati’s amazing GeoDome Panorama and WorldViewer, that dream became a reality.” — Andrew Ackerman / Executive Director, Children’s Museum of Manhattan
DreamPlace is an unforgettable journey inspired by a child’s most memorable experience of meeting Santa Claus. DreamPlace will take families on a magical sleigh ride to the North Pole with the help of Shrek and his Friends. -DreamWorks Animation WebsiteElumenati was enlisted to produce the Virtual Sleigh Ride that is part of the DreamWorks DreamPlace.
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BIBTEX CITATION
@inproceedings{shimizu2015,
author = {Clement Shimizu and Gary W. Meyer},
title = {A Computer Aided Color Appearance Design System for Metallic Car Paint},
year = {2015},
booktitle = {Journal of Imaging Science and Technology}
}
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BIBTEX CITATION
@inproceedings{Challener2012,
author = {Cynthia Challener},
title = {Computerised Color},
date = {June 2012},
booktitle = {Polymers Paint Color Journal Vol 202 no 4573}
}
By: Dr. Clement Shimizu for Janaki Ranpura
Music: Olli Johnson on the Baritone Uke
Puppeteers: Dwane Blake Love and Hannah Rivenburgh
These mini siege warfare props were a commision for Janaki Ranpura-a world renowned puppet artist. John Austin’s book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction was used as starting point for the designs of the siege catapult and claymore mine. The trebuchet is a counterweight design specifically tuned to work in the confines of a small puppet show.
Authors: Seth Berrier, Gary W. Meyer, and Clement Shimizu
A computer graphic program for organizing and displaying the colors in a paint collection is presented. A virtual representation for the traditional color card fan deck is described. This interactive program provides a lightness, chroma and hue interface for selecting a color from the collection. Software for visualizing a paint color on a three dimensional surface is also discussed. This tool allows the user to evaluate the sheen of a solid paint color and the travel of a metallic or pearlescent paint color.
Continue reading A Computer Graphics System for Examining Paint Color Collections 
“Bust out the strawberry lip gloss and meet us under the mistletoe! We’ve turned boring ol’ Christmas on its ear this year with a sexy holiday party – Tendercakes style!”By: Clement Shimizu
Authors: Clement Shimizu, Jim Terhorst, and David McConville (done under D’nardo Colucci for the Elumenati)
Typical video projection systems display rectangular images on flat screens. Optical and perspective correction techniques must be employed to produce undistorted output on non-planar display surfaces. A two-pass algorithm, called projective perspective mapping, is a solution well suited for use with commodity graphics hardware. This algorithm is implemented in the OmniMap API providing an extensible, reusable C++ interface for porting 3D engines to wide field-of-view, non-planar displays. This API is shown to be easily integrated into a wide variety of 3D applications.
Continue reading OmniMap: Projective Perspective Mapping API for Non-planar Immersive Display Surfaces 
By: Clement Shimizu, Sarah Steil, Nicole Steinhofer
When creating product packaging, the appearance of specialty color treatments, like foils and embossing, is unknown until the design is sent through the printing press. Mistakes are costly, if not impossible, to correct at this stage. A software prototype was created to explore the utility of an Adobe Illustrator plugin to show a realistic preview of specialty foil and gloss spot colors.
Continue reading This is the Color 
Authors: Jonathan Konieczny, Clement Shimizu, Gary Meyer, and D’nardo Colucci
A new close range virtual reality system is introduced that allows intuitive and immersive user interaction with computer generated objects. A projector with a special spherical lens is combined with a flexible, tracked rear projection screen that users hold in their hands. Unlike normal projectors, the spherical lens allows for a 180 degree field of view and nearly infinite depth of focus. This allows the user to move the screen around the environment and use it as a virtual “slice” to examine the interior of 3D volumes. This provides a concrete correspondence between the virtual representation of the 3D volume and how that volume would actually appear if its real counterpart was sliced open. The screen can also be used as a “magic window” to view the mesh of the volume from different angles prior to taking cross sections of it. Real time rendering of the desired 3D volume or mesh is accomplished using current graphics hardware. Additional applications of the system are also discussed.
Continue reading A Handheld Flexible Display System 
