Fourtoni: An AR Sculpture

Fourtoni is an Augmented Reality sculpture that makes use of audience eye tracking data in order to recreate a fourth Triton from the existing three tritons in Vincent Apap’s Triton Fountain located in Triton Square, Valletta.

The virtual sculpture was launched on an Android platform on 28 September 2018 as part of the Science in the City Festival 2018. Fourtoni is a collaboration between Matthew Attard and Matthew Galea from the Department of Digital Arts, together with Dr Vanessa Camilleri from the Department of Artificial Intelligence.

The virtual sculpture’s content was driven by research concerning the combination of the cortical homunculus representation of our body in our brain, and eye-tracking results involving free gazing. This aspect of the project was discussed with Prof. Ian Thornton from the Department of Cognitive Sciences.