Improvements Just In Time.
To be frank, I am not sure what to do with this patch to make it unique, so I added my previous patch that track my eye and did a minor adjustment so that the repetitive pattern in this patch will make the eye to look like a wall of continuous eye, since they are happening at real time, it feels like it is the nightmare of those trypophobic.
this still work with parts of the previous patch, by zooming more into the eye and changing the darkness of the clip to make it work.
In this Exercise, I’ve used the location of the face tracker and cropped to only the eye area, scale it accordingly and delay video of the eye by using jit.matrixset, after that, I mapped it onto the original location of the face, creating a trippy effect of a four eye monster.
There are a few things that I’m unable to solve.
1 – the alphamask will give a rectangular box and im unable to remove it even with blur.
2-the additional eye is too sensitive and it look like its vibrating, maybe i could line it afterwards.
so I added the eye tracker from the value of the jit.face box, while doing it, i realise it looks really cool on this effect for just using only the jit.face and scrdimstart and scrdimend it. it feel like a really old way of fliming drunken scene.
Through this disastrous week, we focused on getting the the final batch of butterflies for the presentation, writing the max patch, Arduino code and also purchased a 19 inch monitor which got ruined by a single drop of raindrop and also, setting up the “habitat” for the butterflies in the acrylic case we made.
As for the butterflies, since we released all of our 8 butterflies last week due to the agreement with Mr Foo, the conservationist, we have 0 butterflies on hand for our project and as he agreed with us previously, he would give us in batches, and this week he direct me to a school teacher Sarah, who gave me two of the Leopard Lacewing Chrysalis. Since we know two is not enough, we decided to try our luck to catch some more butterflies a few days before the presentation just make sure they will be at least visually attractive for the final submission.
Both of the butterfly is female although we hope for them to be male which are more visually appealing. however, one of the two butterflies which Sarah gave us have deformed wings and is not able to fly very well. it is still relatively healthy other than that.
And we went to Yewtee park on 3 separate occasion, on the first occasion, we bought a short net which was unable to reach the butterfly and therefore we bought a long extension for the net the following day.
Problem: Not enough butterfly.
Solution: Catch them
During this week, we also use code that allows to use jit.blob and jit.op @absdiff to prepend in the colour in the frame and enable us to locate the center of the blob, the problem here is that we can only unpack the multiple blobs into one XYZ value. Therefore we looked online and tried many different patches and finally came to using [jit.spill @plane(number)] -> [unpack 0. 0. 0.] to unpack many blobs into many XYZ coordinate. hence enable us to track multiple blob’s location at once.
using those cordinate, we also followed a tutorial that taught us how to use jit.lcd, we use the cordinate from the blob centroid to draw the lines in the lcd, we also use timer function to change the RGB value of the lines created in the lcd
up till here, we found out from Prof LPD that we we cant or it is very hard to map many point that attract the particle system as they only “move to destination” but not really is “attracted to” the point. so we decided to find another patch to learn and build our patch on.
This is a screen shot of the final patch we used for the presentation.
just a day before the presentation, we decided not to use the particle system as we think it is not that more is better, it is the effect that we wanted that is important. basically, we found a way to change the camera to using external camera that we have(vdev/input), since the external web-camera is longer in the width, we decide to let it lie by the side and rotate the orientation and scale it accordingly to the screen size we have. (jit.rota) and also changed the original patch from a standard (importmovie colorswatch.png bang) to (qmetro 500 -> jit.noise 3 char 6 6) which produce a new 6 by 6 random RGB boxes every half a second and thus changing the effect of the fluid effect.
Next after we solved the fluid effect, we build the very simple code that uses (serial c 9600) to send a integer over to Arduino which is linked to a relay that controls the 220v table fan which turns off after 8000 ms
And that is roughly it for the codes that we wrote this week, we also settled the logistic part like the screen with a self made stand for the visual generated to be place under the butterfly casing, the flower for the butterfly to stay onto while adding to the overall visual appeal for the whole project, lastly we searched online for the species of butterflies we have and made a information about our project for the butterflies.
We purchased the second hand monitor on carousell and it was working, WAS. and then on the way to school while raining, a drip of rain water goes into the system and killing it once we turn it on. talk about unluckyness. so now, we’ve got a spoilt monitor screen, and we still need one so we searched online for more monitor, in the end we borrowed a 22inch monitor from the IT department which is slightly oversize but great nonetheless.
While I was doing this, SuHwee was arranging the flower carefully, although it may look easy to do so, having the balance and the need to consider the size and the butterfly is quite hard.
we put the screen and the butterfly box together, did up the information board to it and transferred the butterflies in, tore off the paper protecting the acrylic and we’re done!
We will update/upload the video for our project soon!
There was 3 game that were played in the class,
Her Story which is like a detective like game with pure interface design.
Firewatch which is a narrative heavy first person styled game
and lastly Journey which is a graphic based third person game.
I’ve only played Firewatch and Journey as it appeal to me more due to the graphic content, I think Her Story was brilliantly designed but I was not attracted to play it.
First I will talk about my general analysis of the three game, the game were successful and appealing to many player only because of one thing, Curiosity. in Her story, the game play is designed to trigger the curiosity of the player by feeding them some rewards and clue to another clue, the more clue the player find, the closer they will be to the truth, and the main reason that anyone one want to play this game is because they want to know what truly happened. In Firewatch, same goes to the mindset of playing the game, by choosing different reaction and speech to Delila, the story will go different path and user will want to know how their response to the chat bring them to a different ending, hence many player would replay the game with different choice of reaction to see more ending. although I only start at half of the game in class, this game is not really my cup of tea, maybe because I started halfway and doesn’t know the relationship of the character and Delila. Lastly, Journey feeds on the exploration curiosity in us and make us want to explore the world and try to see a little bit more each stage.
Journey is my favorite game out of the three,simply because the artwork is amazing, although the story was so so, there is no text and such, nothing too complicated and player could relax fully while playing this game, the art direction is brilliantly executed as the color platelet of the game chosen for the background is all light powdery color while the main character is in maroon red with gold, just the color alone made the game and the main character stand out from the background but majority of the screen is the scenery, it shrink the character to visually fit it into the whole composition, suddenly making the breathtaking desert and sun set the main focus of the game, this gives an idea that the world is huge and you are only a tiny character that is moving through the endless desert, trying to find something which may or may not exist.
This is the first time I’ve seen the butterfly emerged from chrysalis, these chrysalis of lime butterfly were given to us by our friend YaYu.
These 3 different species were given by the conservationist Mr.Foo, there were a total of 7 Chrysalis, 5 Leopard Lacewing, 1 Plain Tiger and 1 Lemon Emigrant. All 5 Leopard Lacewing had emerged this week and the other 2 will be coming out tonight or tomorrow morning.
Did a lot of butterfly related task this week which includes getting the chrysalis from Mr.Foo, setting the chrysalis up for documentation, waking up way too early to get the video of the eclosing process. laser cutting and build the final casing for the butterfly and presentation, Researched on what butterfly eats and how to feed them. buying Curry leaves from supermarket with vegetables for the butterfly to live with. And tried to get a second hand monitor screen from an online seller, the seller did not turn up and did not reply. Our 160 degree wide angle web camera had arrived from china and we will test it out really soon with Max.
While I was writing this post, The Lemon Emigrant eclosed! (and I diden see it nor video it!) now that the Lemon Emigrant came out, the last one that will be coming out will be the Plain Tiger.
Also for coding, we further researched about our max patch and spend most of our time studying and trying to merge/tweak the standard patch as well as what other people did for their project, some of the patch were too hard to understand until today’s lesson when LPD explained most of what the patch does then we understands(slightly) what the patch does.
From this week to next week we will focus mainly on the max patch and get something that could roughly work in terms of butterfly/motion tracking, visual generation and output to control a real life appliance using UDP or the wireless I-Cube X.
