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[Interactive II] Exercise 5 - Coloured Pixels
About A pixelated mirror which reflects whatever is in front it, based on its shade.
How It Works The patch given by Prof is quite complex so I tried to slice them into different parts as I studied them one at a time.Step 1 : Open Camera & Digitize Video First step is to grab the camera. Step 2 : Pixelate Next is Read more →
Assignment 4: I Am Michael Jackson Documentation
https://youtu.be/6JoAxuF-64U
Here’s a documentation of the alpha blend tutorial. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Jokes aside, here are some things that could be worked on
feathering the sides of Michael Jackson’s face increasing the size of the face suit facial proportions opacity increase to show face morphInteractive II: #3 Milestones
MILESTONE: One week before submission!
Merging our animation into the particle system:
Our 3D animation and 2D particle system rendered in the same space, but on different planes.
After a long while of experimenting and figuring out the patch, we finally managed to render the animation in point mode. We extracted the location matrix of the animation and linked it with Read more →
[Interactive II] Exercise 4 - Alpha Blending
About Face recognition that blends Marilyn Monroe’s face into yours.
How It Works Step 1 : Open Camera & Face Position As usual, we need to grab the camera and track the face’s position to get things started. This part of the patch receives a bounding box (e.g. the message ’79. 122. 178. 221.’) that places the image. The t Read more →
Assignment 5: Pixels
The problem I faced was calling the videos to play. I tried to ‘importvideo’ and ‘read’ the videos but it gave me errors. I decided to use the movie file source and finally the videos I recorded appeared. I had fun creating my own assets and also moving around to see different videos of myself playing.
Through this I learned about Read more →
Assignment 4: Face Recognition with alphablending (I am Brad Pitt)
I attempted to blend the other face onto my face but it gave me a black screen at first. After playing around with the patch, I got it to blend but it was not according to the my face size but the screen.
I tried to blend the face together with my face and it seems to blend it Read more →
[Interactive II] Exercise 3 - Photobooth
About A face-tracking photobooth which directs user to the center of the screen through its voice and then capture their image after staying in the zone for a few seconds.
How It Works Step 1 : Open Camera The first step is something that we had done for the first two exercises so far: to open the webcam camera. Step 2 Read more →
I am Tina...
Dreams do come true. I’m a cartoon voiced by a dude. With some alpha blending, we learned to mask a picture onto our faces.
Photobooth
A patch for a photobooth which creates different noises based on the positioning of your head. Different noises reflect the direction you are in. If there is no noise, your head is in the center and a photo will be saved.
The // Slit Scan // Effect
The Slit Scan Effect is the work of both Cher See and myself in trying to achieve the slit scan technique used in photography and occasionally in video.
The visuals that come of this technique are quite fascinating
But it requires quite a technical setup for photography, or a lot of post-processing in video to achieve the effect
Very rarely do Read more →