Experimental augmented reality works using natural objects as AR targets.
Augmented Tree Rings is a series of wood cuts augmented with layers of hand-drawn animation responding to patterns of tree ring growth. The animations reflect climate events or other factors recorded in dendrochronology, for example rain, fire, and insect life.
Data Leaves consists of a series of fake and real leaves that are augmented with real-time weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology. Green leaves display the current temperature for each Australian capital city, and scattered autumn leaves indicate the time for sunset, sunrise, moonset and moonrise. The green leaves are based on tree species specific to each state that are being monitored as bioindicators to understand changes in temperature and rainfall that are affecting seasonal behaviour of plants and animals.
