Struggle for scrapping

I have to start with mentioning my application presentation. We had concept that sun is about to be exploded, we asked people what they are gonna do in the last 5 minutes. Interviews were interesting, and I made processing sketch that will suit to the concept & interviews. Here the result is.

Preparing application presentation was so crazy, so I even cannot remember how exactly I ended up with this sketch. However, the result was great, and I really like the spatial feeling that it gives. Since space directly means the difference of the time for me after arriving in here, I tried to combine space and time. After several tries, I found that no sketch will be better than the original one. Then, I just converted the original one to the clock. Hour is in the center of the planet, and  minute for the time is displayed on the surface of the planet.

 

 

Code is here 

 

I am thinking about porting this to i-pad app, it will look good with i-pad, not practical though.

 

Okay, I haven’t made decision yet, so I decided to post my idea and really basic sektch for each idea.

1. circular word game.. (OMG, what is this?)

I made real simple sketch for this idea. When people type, character appears and rotates ! (and stop after one circulation)

 

 

The image of bunch of characters spinning has been stuck inside of my head these days. I think I can make some kinds of games, for example, I can mix some unrelated character between the character of the word, and users should pop the wrong character out. Or.. or.. lots of ways to apply this spinning wheel of words.

 

2 . Conquer the world with robot

 

 

I made cute bot  for p-comp project, and I am quite interested in developing this project. I thought that I could use the robot as a medium of visual effects and interactive games. Specifically, there are two teams, there are two robots, each robot stands for each team. People control the robot, and if they draw closed path, then polygon (with some beautiful effects) appears and that polygon becomes the area of that team. Then, the team with larger area win!

 

 

In the past, I made this one . It was made by the other’s request, but I like this visual result so I wanted to make use of this.

 

I tried to convert this to real time video, but it requires a lot – a lot – a lot- of memory to call malloc error. In fact, this sketch is making about 1000 small PGraphics, so it is expectable situation. I should try this in openframeworks or try more effective algorithm to make it work in realtime.

Code is here. It is mess, I didn’t do any comments.

 

I tried hand detection in processing, it looks quite good in video, but actually not. In video, I set the perfect light to find hand  ( actually blob for processing) ,so if light changes, it loses its function. I coded this program to find the biggest and brightest blob, but I totally need a better algorithm. source : http://itp.nyu.edu/~hj657/ICM/ICM_1024.zip

 

Sam made this amazing site, I wanted to make use of this site’s data. Therefore, here it is, ITP Guess Who Game. This is simple guess who game, this game delivers the parsed data from the site. Texts displayed on the background is kind of hint, it is the description for the person. Now, this game has 20 rounds, too many rounds maybe ?

 Dealing with texts is always more difficult than with simple shapes. This sketch is very slow in open processing, perhaps because I did not optimize all codes.

Open processing link : http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/73714

Anyway, I am trying other kinds of IDE such as Eclipse or Sublime Text. Eclipse has been always good for java development but too heavy. Sublime is super pretty and light but a bit annoying because I always have to turn on the processing ro tun sketch. Dilema !

I am just making patterns by trigonometric functions

The sketch looks appealing for now.

Open processing Link : http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/72488

Processing in javascript mode does not support many things, so I am just capturing my stuffs.

 First week, I just wanted some movements like waves.

Second week, I used the data of the image.

So far, I am concentrated on some visual effects. Well, I am not sure that I am in right direction, but having fun at least.