My genetic algorithm example from the nature of code has been translated to Finnish and posted at http://www.nokturno.org/index.php?poeetta=shiffman. What a great site! Lots of interesting text-based digital work there.
Had a chance to experiment a bit more. Created a very basic particle system, where particles are born via motion detection (simple webcam) and displayed as blobular things on the lighting fixture. Graphics, network lighting control, and motion detection all done in Processing. Hooray, the possibilities are endless. . .
(This post uses the wordpress video comments plug-in.)
Ok, so this really takes ze cake. At the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, there’s a friendly video available on the room television that provides instructions on what to do in case of a fire. They could at least have gotten a real french person, zut alors! (if you listen closely, you may be able to hear me laughing in the background. oh, and apologies for the high-pitched noise, makes the video a bit uncomfortable to watch.)
(testing the new video comments plug-in)
At least I did get some work done on the book today.
Wolfram CA, LED-style:
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“Hello World” real-time, interactive lighting:
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/blinkies2.mov 320 240]
(Just realized I can’t put two video comments posts in the same blog entry.)
After sniffing the packets to see how this color kinetics LED tile works, I created a Processing library that reads the pixels of the display window, converts them to a 12×12 matrix, and writes them out as UDP packets to the data/power supply for the LEDs. My goal is to create some interesting real-time, interactive lighting applications. Just got this working today and did two quick experiments:
Flocking blobs:
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/blinkies1.mov 320 240]
A big thank you to Shawn Van Every for solving my packet sniffing woes when I was stumped!
Better than anything I could ever hope to program. . .
I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.0.3 in order to use the video comments plugin so proceed with caution for a short while. . .
Ok, it’s time to test the Video Comments Plugin. I’m working on an interactive fishtank project for the amazing and awesome Local Projects so I thought I’d use a demo video I just whipped up (where glowy tadpole-like creatures interact with a shadow). Perhaps not the best video for an in-time comments engine, but it’s all I got. . .)
Here it goes. . . comments plug-in go go go!
[QT_COMMENTS http://www.shiffman.net/movies/fishies.mov 360 240]