MIDTERM: PARTICLE MIRROR
10/23/06

My midterm project is a video mirror that uses a particle system to represent the image. I have always been fascinated by video mirrors and by systems in which the pixels used to represent an image each have their own identity. Here, the particles are not really pixels, per se, but they do each have a life -- and death -- of their own. Particles are generated in random locations and have a limited lifespan. As time progresses, individual particles fade and die, and are replaced by new particles. Once a particle is generated, it starts looking for dark areas in the video and moves toward them.

Because this program uses video input, it will not run in your browser. To try it, download the source code below and run it in processing with an attached webcam.

source code: midterm
built with processing