Archive for February, 2012

Bubbles and trains

Encapsulate our words in baloons above our head[ READ MORE ]

The road narrows

In two weeks I’ll be embarking on a journey that will take me across the country. But after taking a breather and exmaining my capabilities, I’ve shortened the journey and changed it. The cross country train ride would have been amazing since it’s not a road, it is not part of Google Earth Street View. [ READ MORE ]

Cameras of the world 5 years from now

There are views that more cameras out there could mean two things. One is that We can finally get a grasp on what’s going on in the world. No longer can dictators and criminals hide from us. For once we can finally generate our own opinions on subjects that before, took an army of journalists [ READ MORE ]

Adaptaion

This week in Comics, we adapted T.C. Boyle’s short story, “The Ape in Retirement” into 6 panels of comic book form. It was a challenge in figuring out what to keep and what to take away and my process has resulted in this. While on the train, I sketched out scenes that were important and [ READ MORE ]

Apple bite

Watch here   import oscP5.*; OscP5 oscP5; //crane[] crane; PImage crane1; PImage crane2; PImage crane3; PImage crane4; PImage crane5; PImage apple; String crane= "crane1, crane2, crane3, crane4, crane5"; PVector posePosition; boolean found; float eyeLeftHeight; float eyeRightHeight; float mouthHeight; float mouthWidth; float nostrilHeight; float leftEyebrowHeight; float rightEyebrowHeight; float[] chew = new float [5]; //float[] crane = [ READ MORE ]

Face tracking projects

In car face tracking – to detect driver fatigue and other behavior. PS Eye head tracking to move the POV of the game according to the position of the head. Example Facial tracking in cars to control objects in the car and identify the driver. Facial recognition for identification of people in photos as depicted [ READ MORE ]

How to get from point A to point B

I’ve made documentaries before and it’s not something entirely new. We would basically tell a story and the one way of telling a story is just simply to move forward. “Connecting” seems to be just as complicated as it sounds. For one, no longer do you have a captured audience for them to digest your [ READ MORE ]

Moments in panels

This week’s homework examines on the different ways we can combine words and images. Interdependent Word Specific Parallel Picture specific Personally, I preferred the picture specific method in this particular story of me crashing my bike. I think the the ability to convey the story using images conveys more emotion. I leave it to the [ READ MORE ]

Skeletal tracking

This week Kim Ash and I worked together on the skeletal tracking of the Kinect using OpenNI. The idea is when you reach a pose, a “nuclear” explosion occurs. Using the code sample from ITP Resident Greg Borenstien’s book “Making Things See, 2011″, it was fairly straightforward enough to get the skeletal tracking in place. [ READ MORE ]

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