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04:08:56 pm on July 11, 2008 |
Today I’ve been learning a new piece of freeware named eMotion. It applies the laws of physics to particles, lines or next. I’ve also been looking at some other stuff, have a gander.
It can be used in performance aswell.
Motion tracking with Quartz
and this snazzy installation.
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03:12:02 pm on July 10, 2008 |
I’ve managed to make a patch that will mix a live web cam feed from anywhere with the movie file of your choice or a live camera feed. For some reason it gets confused when you use two web cam feeds from the internet. The phidget slide potentiometer could be used to slide between files but I didn’t get it set up for this test.
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11:38:16 am on July 10, 2008 |
Hello, this is serious sports info. The tilt switches, when turned on, bring up an rss feed about certain sports from the bbc website. Football rugby cricket etc. I wanted to use physical objects which represent the sport in question but the principal is there.
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09:47:09 am on July 10, 2008 |
Hello, here we have some live web cam from the internet (you can change to a number of different ones or include your own) getting some effects changeable by the phidget. Slightly boring as the web cam updates every 1 second and therefore so does the effect. If you wizz forward in the video you can see where I just used the web cam on the computer so the effects are more instant but some nice matrix stuff going on. What else is nice with this patch is that you can record and save what you do into a nice little .mov file .
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02:44:18 pm on July 9, 2008 |
Quartz Composer reacting to some wacky audio from Max MSP to mess around with moving image.
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03:15:17 pm on July 7, 2008 |
And one more before home time. The colour of a fibre optic controlled by the keyboard, could easily be anything else.
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02:48:28 pm on July 7, 2008 |
Got Quartz working with the Phidget. Took a week like but I did it. Here you see nothing to aesthetically pleasing, just a quick test using a particle system. Looks like a digital bubble machine as each particle has been assigned a halo image. A slide potentiometer moves the x-position of the particles and a pressure sensor increases each particles lifetime (scatters them in layman’s terms). I’ve been trying to output from the phidget to the controller of a remote control car. No luck yet but if I do I should be able to control it with a Wii!
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11:21:59 am on July 7, 2008 |
Hello, I’m Chris. I’ve been working on this project with everyone else this past week. I haven’t posted a blog until now as until today I had only found out what doesn’t work, and there’s a lot, quite frustrating. Today a little success. I’ve had a Phidget interface kit working with Max/MSP. My comfortable working environment is Quartz Composer with VDMX, real time visuals and reactive animations. This is why I’ve achieved little in the way of things working as Quartz isn’t yet very friendly with communicating with things outside the computer. So I swallowed my pride and pulled my hair out with Max and got some results, an air drum!
Strap em on your hands and bang the air like a drum. Still not got it to stop looping the audio when your hands are down (‘on the drum’) so it needs some tweaking. Also some abstract visuals that can be altered with whatever sensors I played with, potentiometer, light resistor, touch sensor and so on.
