Category: My Work

Interactivity ( to me)

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Interactivity

 

To me, interactivity is about creating the Personal experience. It’s about being there, being part of the world, the art, the action. Its about an experience you have to make what you create connect with the User. I create games and I would like my game to change the way people think about games. To break free from what we typically understand about games and to create new experiences through games.

 

 

Music Box

Group Project

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Darryl

Nathanael

The brief was to create an interface using a camera.

 

We created 2 ways of interacting.

 

Idea 1

  1. By pixelating the screen , we created a 4 x 2 grid that acted as a grid to trigger a series of videos.
  2. The videos are then overlayed with each other to give  different effects.

 

Idea 2

  1. By translating the input for the webcam into sound and the using face tracker to change the values, we were able to get a pitch modulator that is controlled through the position of your head.
  2. We then input the audio into another system to translate it into audio visualizations

The idea was to think of interesting but yet realistic means of creating an interface.

 

The grid system was simple but not very interesting or reliable. It created a means of which we can toggle on and off and then overlay different videos to get different efffects but that was about it.

The audio visualization was very experimental, the sound that was produced was our own. The images were created out of the sound we made. These sounds were unique and created through our movements.

We translated the motion of the body (and head) into sound and visuals using the most basic interface. Our body

MASKING – PROCESS

Project objective : PUTTING OBAMA FACE 

Step 1

Adding image to the screen and using alpha blending to merge the two images

 

Step 2

Inputting the coordinates of the face tracker and using it to draw the image file.

Step 3.

Twerking the settings so that the face image covers my face completely.

 

 

One of the main problems was adding the values of the rect into the matrix and then adding the image.

I couldnt get the right values in so the image responded to the face but it was only around the top left corner of the screen and not scaled to size.

 

usedstdim 1 was used, taking string 1 and 2( x1, y1) for the start and string 3 and 4 for the end (x2,y2).

 

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Face is detected! Image draws with the box.

 

The box drawn was smaller then my face so the value of y1 had to be adjusted to cover the entire face.

 

Color of the face was also adjusted through the channel.

I have yet to blend the sides of the image yet.

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After editing the image, the face now fits my face but the alpha blending is still lacking

 

Thanks Obama

assignment 2

 

 

Interactive 1 Assignment

The approach to this installation seemed fairly simple.

Step 1

Find the X coordinates of the face

Step 2 

Create two conditions

to trigger the left and right video.

 

One of the few problems when creating this installation was when the face detection was not really very reliable.

 

The video will re trigger every time the face detection failed.

A remedy of this was to use a better cameraDSC_0551

 

Using a logitech 1080 HD camera I was able to get a better reading of the face and hence able to create a more reliable installation.

 

 

Screen shot of code shown below

 

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