Melanie Hoff, Shir David
Physical snowglobe creates digital snow over a live webcam footage
http://www.shirdaviditp.com/physical-computing-week-7-midterm-project/
Description
This project consists of a screen displaying a live webcam of NYC. On a small platform in front of the screen will sit a snow globe with the same NYC scene shown in the webcam within it. When a user shakes the snow globe, it will appear to snow in the live webcam. The speed and direction of the snowfall onscreen will mimic that of the snowfall in the globe.
The snow is a p5 simulation that connects to an Arduino in the bottom of the snow globe via serial communication. The snow simulation code is controlled by reading and mapping values from an accelerometer. Currently, the NYC webcam footage is actually a recording but we plan on directly embedding the live NYC webcam footage for the winter show.
This project playfully leverages the prevailing belief that live webcams represent the truth.
Melanie Hoff and Shir David created this for Benedetta Piantella's PCOMP mid-term.
Classes
Introduction to Physical Computing