School is out for summer so I’m taking a break from teaching classes in order to teach (?!?!) workshops. I just returned from a lovely visit to Amsterdam, where I led two full-day intensive Processing workshops at Mediamatic. I also was super thrilled to present with Jer Thorp at Mediamatic’s Processing Salon. Jer’s work is fantastic and inspiring. His presentation was one of the highlights of my trip.
Next stop a 3-day advanced Processing workshop with the D3D masters students at Naba in Milan. I was lucky enough to be in Milan for the opening of Triennale’s Design of the Other Things exhibit, which included work by Massimo Banzi of Arduino fame. Also, a special thanks to Filippo Vanucci who came in as a guest presenter to talk about his ITP thesis project: Scrollables.
This month, I’ll be teaching a few sessions at ITP’s new Summer Camp (for grownups) as well as two Processing workshops at this year’s OFFF. I’ve been getting many e-mail questions regarding what exactly will be covered at the OFFF workshops so here’s a quick outline for anyone thinking of attending.
Processing Pixels, June 24, 10 am to 2 pm
- What is Processing?
- The “pixels” array
- The PImage class, loading and displaying an image
- Image Processing 101, reading and writing pixels
- Image as look-up table of colors
- The Capture object, creating a software mirror with live video
- Introduction to computer vision, color tracking, etc.
- Overview of computer vision libraries: BlobDetection, openCV, CCV/TUIO/multitouch
- Time to work and ask questions
Most Pixels Ever, June 25, 11 am to 1 pm
- What is Processing?
- What is openFrameworks?
- Examples of ITP “Big Screens” projects
- How does MPE work?
- What is MPE good for?
- Demo of MPE for Processing
- Demo of MPE for openFrameworks
- Time to work and ask questions