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December 04, 2006

Photo-Silhouette Booth (PComp & ICM Final)

For my final project in Introduction to Computational Media and Physical Computing, I collaborated with Daniel Soltis, Scott Varland, and Jeff Sable to create an interactive reinvention of the photobooth. After researching and testing traditional photobooths, we developed the notion that the constrained, self-conscious experience of posing for photographs could be improved by providing an engagingly immersive, stylized environment to engage and surprise participants--all the while capturing playful, candid photographs of them.

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November 15, 2006

ICM Final-Concept

Further developing the video processing work I did for my midterm, my plan for the final project is to build an applet that does live image processing of the user, but allows them to adjust the color and shapes of the stylization based on "buttons" on the screen that they can select by moving their hand to the appropriate spot. I may also integrate the project I'm working on for pComp, which is an adaptation of the "falling particles" applet that tracks the user's silhouette, allowing them to interact with the particles.

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November 02, 2006

ICM Midterm

For my midterm project, I played with various video effects using a webcam as input. The movie below gives a general sense of the four effects (three mirror effects, and one motion tracking), though the quality is truly terrible (sorry). To view the applet in action, paste the code below into Processing, and attach a webcam. Once set up, click 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the keyboard to scroll through the various effects.

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October 19, 2006

ICM Midterm Prep

For the midterm, I've completed the first step of what I hope to be a larger project using live video input to generate abstract graphics on the fly, the style of which will be determined by the users interaction--probably proximity.

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October 12, 2006

Scraping Googlism for Data

Assignment: Create a Processing applet that uses input from a text file or URL....

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September 23, 2006

Dynamic Processing Character

Assignment: Draw a character in Processing and make it “dynamic.” For example, develop a set of rules for moving it around the screen, have it grow and shrink, change colors, etc. Can you make it respond to mouse interactivitiy?...

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