Using Darkest Pixel capture

http://itp.nyu.edu/~tyh215/blog/2009/12/floor/

Timeline

Weekend of Sat 21st -- Design installation set up - map location of projector, camera, computer relationship.

Finalize structure / purpose of the visual design of code by the end of following week -- Friday 27th
     -- Video Capture?
     -- Abstraction in animation?
     -- Mosaic?

Construct "prototype" test the installation as a whole.  Fix Bugs -- week after Memorial weekend.

Video Class in Processing

http://processing.org/reference/libraries/video/Capture.html

Some Notes bout Interactive Installations

Interdeterminacy: When a machine learns, evolving systems.  Spectator and machine are permanently enriched after the experience.

The Legible City, Jeffrey Shaw, touring through a town built from letters on a stationary bicycle.

Reward in interactive art is unfolding the experience of exploration and discovery

Creator has power to decide whether to emphasize certain kinds of relationships between points of view or to create a system with limited options to assist the interactor in deciding how to proceed.

A system that is wide open doesn’t usually satisfy the interactor. Impose restraints

One has a great sense of personal impact when freedom to affect a system is limited

Transformations of the medium not made visible, possibility for powerful manipulation occurs. Less and less connected communities, large viral

Already someone has decided what info is worth preserving in an image and what is not… teleconferencing and voices over phones are all digitized and compressed

Myron Krueger – the Videoplace installation

Composition of the relationships between action and response is what is important, visuals and aural response are secondary

Transforming or recontextualizing reflections of interactors gestures

A rich, less ego-driven experienced is found in obliqueness and irony within the transformations of interaction

Interesting system dynamics when different but similar body movements are detected and translated differently; producing different sounds.  How to keep one’s installation from being entirely too predictable.

A balance of control and surprise – interactive aesthetic

The hustling robot becomes more demanding as more viewers respond cooperatively

Some Motion Tracking

GOT PS3 EYE WORKING IN PROCESSING...

Thanks MACAM

Now... to sketch?

Possibilities for final project

Aesthetic program creates color image based on user display through eye -- detected movement draws on processing and then takes a picture every so often -- user can write name and picture number to be collected and emailed or shared online later.

PS3 Eye and Processing Threads

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1251903672

Figuring out w/ library and macam

Art with processing + ps Eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztHRmj3eYs

Rubric for Project 4

Polish / Finish / Craftsmanship - - 35 points
                   It's important to me that the final project appear as mainstreamed and seamless as possible.  In the direction of product design.

Evolution of Piece over time - - 15 points
                   I expect my project to have its share of changes the closer I get to a finished product.           Hopefully not all of them are due to compromises.

Fully Packaged and Documented Piece - - 25 points
                   I recognize the importance of documenting the process of construction, and development.

Cohesive and Developed Concept - - 25 points
                   This one may be changed to Pushing Beyond My Comfort Zone, depending on the developed concept.