Google - Morphing Clay

Morphing Clay is a real-time, interactive experience designed in collaboration with Google and Future Deluxe to breathe new life into traditional Chinese ceramics and inspire a younger generation.

Google wanted to showcase an interesting use of artificial intelligence (AI) at two events in China in September 2019. The idea was to use AI to reconnect the younger generation with the traditional art forms that are part of China’s cultural heritage with the use of Machine Learning. 

Working alongside the teams at Future Deluxe (who drove the overall creative) and Bit Studio (who developed the back end), members of the Solarflare team created the front end experience using Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline. Powered by Google’s machine learning platform – TensorFlow, Morphing Clay learns to recognise different human gestures and body movements, triggering the morphing of different pottery shapes and patterns in real-time.