Idat310: The Wall

As we have to include cliffs within our game, I have had to adapt the brick wall to appear more like a rock wall and add a few cliff onto it. We wanted to keep the graffiti on the wall, so it give the game a fresh urban fill. I do prefer the use of bricks, but because of the game features a rock wall is more suited:

Ollie will now take this and recreate it within flash

Idat310: Cling Characters

I have taken the Cling Climber Characters I made before and adapted them to look like each member of Involve for the final version of our game:

Prid 302: Fun Face Recognition

This project remind me of my first idea of the Clown Corridor, where people will walk down a corridor, whilst seeing themselves in front on them, but instead of their face it will be replaced with a clowns mask – or some unpleasant imagery

I think this is really fun and it has made me think about maybe still doing something with the Clown Corridor project

Prid 302: What I have been playing with

I have gone the Internet and found a few tutorials on some interesting web cam projects. Both in Flash and Processing:

I found a tutorial on the Processing website, on how to pick a web cam feed up, detect the amount of, Red, Blue and Green pixels and merge them into one, and how when you press any key on your keyboard a snap shot is taken, leaving the refreshed back ground image with a ghostly figure of your face. Here is a snap shot my web cam in action:

I am very fond of the ghostly image this leaves behind – kind of like you have left your marking/stamp behind, I think it will be interesting to see how people react to using this application – will they like seeing themselves.

I have also found face recognition code for flash and the use of web cams – luckily the creator has uploaded the source code for this project, so I have been able to download it and test it. I will soon play around with it and hopefully create a similar piece to The Portrait Machine
Here is video of the software in action by the creator:

Here is a snap shots of me (and John) using it on my iMac:

Prid 302: The Photo Booth

i have been thinking about how people like to use photo booths both old fashion and modern – to pull funny faces and be able to laugh at themselves.

Photo Booth Self-Portrait, ca. 1963
Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
Gelatin silver prints

This pair of photo-booth strips is one of Warhol’s earliest experiments with photography. For Warhol, as a source entertainment and private self get-away. Behind the curtains, the sitter could adopt a succession of different roles, each captured in a single frame; the resulting in a strip of four poses – possible showing the layers up the users personality, or even their auto ego.

The modern day most popular photo booth, has to be the built in software application on Apple Macs:

it takes a photo with the built- in or external web cam. What makes this photo booth different towards the rest if the many different number of effects it has on offer, such as:

Standard effects

* Sepia
* Black & White
* Glow
* Colored Pencil
* Thermal Camera
* X-Ray
* Pop Art
* Comic
* Mirror
* Dent
* Stretched
* Squeezed
* Fish eye
* Tunnel

Users like to you this to amuse themselves as well as others with this software – most people will even upload the end results. This is all good fun and brings lots of laughs, but are people really thinking about that they are uploading their portrait – personal identify for all to see. This is again why I want to do an public project to see how willing people are to have their face on show.

Idat310: New Involve site

We all decided that our Involved site news a new more fresh design, so far I have designed this layout, Vicky will now take this and built it up. Also Aqeel is tweaking up our logo and looking up fonts to be used on the site:

Blog I Like

just found this and I rather like reading it:

http://videothing.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_archive.html

Prid 301: The new idea…..

Here is an outline of my new idea and structure for my essay, that I am going to show Hugo tomorrow…. be warned though, I have not proof read it yet…..but I wanted to upload it now so at least it is on my site

Prid301-DisserationOutline

Plus I need to find my related text to you

Prid302: Making things more visible

Following on from my last post I think it will be better to place the videos and snap shots of the of the work that has inspired me, so it is easy for everybody to see:

Portrait Machine
The idea of the project is that people take their photo and that is gets displayed on a screen with two screens next to it, that generate connections between the photo that has just been take and the photos of the other users before hand. This is an interesting project as it looks at how all the users of the project connect, kind of in a way portraying that one day we will all look the same:

Portrait Machine – Interactive Photography Installation (preview) from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

Touch Me
TouchMe is an interactive installation that allows its users to create and contribute a personal image to the otherwise impersonal public space. Images that are created by interacting with a plate of frosted glass, remain a part of the piece and are displayed when no interactions occur for a given time.

A video of it in action:

TouchMe – China 2008 from Blendid on Vimeo.

Both of these project are my two favorite (from the ones listed before), and I will delvelop my idea from these. I found it interesting that both projects are very playful and people want to play with them, however the player forgets that they are display their own person image for all to see and that it is being stored.

I am going to play around with open frameworks and start doing a similar piece as the Portrait Machine, to get familiar with the platform and to get creative with it

Idat307: Some more inspiration for project

Interactive Sunset been created in Processing. The idea is that you are controlling the sunset and taking over the time line. In a way is makes you feel like you are God:

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_P5/Khronos_Jefo.html

I think this is interesting to feel like you are in control of time, so maybe I could do a similar piece like this myself, but instead of using a mouse to change things – it is interactive, via web cams or motion tracking.

The second project I have found is this interactive light art installation – Swarn by Blendid, that plays around with the movement and position of the people underneath it.

Swarm from Blendid on Vimeo.

I could maybe do a similar piece with lights that interacts with the Arch-os system

……

Actually just spoke to Mike and he likes both thing but asked me which one I preferred and i think me and him both think that the first piece is the best way to go.

He recommended me another video: Hand from Above

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

Now I just need to experiment in time lapse sequences and take photographs of on location that changes through time and mix up the photos, by either slicing them, laying them on top of each other and changing the alpha or even working with the pixel.

The one and only Chris Speed completed a time lapse sequence piece where it studies a group of shops for 24hours and splits up the scene by adjusting the time for each shop.

Just before Mike left me we started to talk about the old QuickTimeVR pieces, we found this site:

http://www.worldserver.com/turk/quicktimevr/index.html

and played with this movie:

http://www.worldserver.com/turk/quicktimevr/MissionDolores2.html

As soon as he showed me this I mentioned how I have had an similar idea like this a while ago, you can found about it on earlier posts- where you take a still photo and zoom into and it becomes a 3 Dimension world that you can move around and explore, to make you feel like you are actually situated in the environment.

Mike told me to go see Pete Carss in the Dome as he done a very creative piece that uses a similar concept.

So I need to get researching and experiment and an end piece will develop from this.