For my final, I went back and forth between a few ideas, but ultimately, I decided to address the two elements that I had wanted to try but hadn’t figured out yet: movie and minim. The video is simple because my intention was to include more opportunities for user interaction, but at least it is functional. I had to make the choice between something that works and something that is complex…and I chose something that works. I used some random video that I shot the other day on an iPhone (this is not the video I had originally planned to use) because it is pretty and simple. I chose Youth Lagoon’s “17” to accompany it, as both the movie and the music are nice and calm. To add a bit more complexity, I added a mouseClick function, which simultaneously pauses the movie and the music. This turns the project into a music video player! When the mouse is released, both the movie and music return. I have a key pressed function that evaluates the brightness of the video and then colors the sky blue while the key is pressed to give the appearance of a rainy day/thunderstorm. For this part, I hoped to manipulate the video by tracking someone’s movement with the webcam, but ultimately, I couldn’t figure out how to do this. Thought that I could change the pitch and/or volume of the music that way, or the playback speed of the video. Since I struggled to translate the data from the computer’s vision into manipulation of the video on screen, I replaced that portion with a keyPressed function so when the spacebar is pressed, the video speeds up and the sky turns blue like a rainstorm! I know this looks like a pretty simple project, but for my final, I really wanted to make something entirely functional and visually appealing.
import processing.video.*;
Movie myMovie;
import ddf.minim.*;
Minim minim;
AudioPlayer song;
void setup() {
size(960, 540);
myMovie = new Movie(this, "TreeCircle.mov");
myMovie.loop();
minim=new Minim(this);
song= minim.loadFile("17.mp3");
song.play();
}
void draw() {
image(myMovie, 0,0, 960, 540);
}
void mousePressed() {
myMovie.pause();
song.pause();
}
void mouseReleased() {
myMovie.play();
song.play();
}
void keyPressed() {
for (int i = 0; i < myMovie.pixels.length; i++) { //you can ask the pixel array how long it is
if ( brightness(myMovie.pixels[i]) > 200) { //check the brightness of the pixel
myMovie.pixels[i] = color(0, 200, 250,150); //
myMovie.speed(4.0);
}}}
// Called every time a new frame is available to read
void movieEvent(Movie m) {
m.read();
}
void stop() {
song.close();
minim.stop();
super.stop();
}
