Mirror
Ji Sun Lee
Anjali Patel
Related links
ICM class site
The Spirit Mirror allows the person who is staring at his/her reflection to alter his/her image by blowing into a microphone. The altered image turns dark and a random white shape appears which could make illusion of spirit. While the person goes about staring at the reflection and altering it, a haunting piece of music plays in the background.
Steps for coding
1)Run live video from the computer webcam to act as the ¡°mirror¡±.
2)Implement microphone signal code.
3)In the signal code, when the force of the blowing is at or above a certain signal value, display a dark overlay.
4)Then display a random white shape.
5)After a certain delay, have the mirror go back to its original state.
Relevant resources:
Wikipedia - Spirit
The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning "breath" (compare spiritus asper), but also "soul, courage, vigor", ultimately from a PIE root *(s)peis- ("to blow").
[ Khronos Projector ] simplified demos
Programming challenges:
Getting the microphone signal data to correspond well with the appearance of the dark background and white shape.
[screen sketch for Nature of Code final project]
material : coding on processing + webcam+ aruion board + apple plain talk+ frame + Screen
Spirit Mirror Project pictures
Spirit Mirror Project movies
Spirit Mirror Project code on Processing
Ji Sun Lee, Anjali Patel