exploration

Month: March 2009

  • counting change

    As an in-class exercise for Spatial Media we were asked to develop a program which would identify coins in a series of supplied images and tally up their total value. In one hour. Since time was limited, I decided to use pixel count as a rough estimate of each coin’s size. This works very reliably […]

  • openFrameworks + iPhone libs

    I’ve had a few days to test the libraries I cobbled together for using openFrameworks with iPhone and also received positive reports from some folks who tried out the Makefiles I provided to them, so here they are for anyone who’s willing to try them out. -please make these instructions better if you see fit-

  • openFrameworks + iPhone

    I’ve heard about openFrameworks 0.6 (as of yet unreleased) and specifically efforts to support building apps using oF for the iPhone. There are a few developers who have published videos of their efforts and even several apps in the AppStore. Memo Atken has a very informative article about setting up the prerelease 0.6 version for […]

  • TrafficFlow: Prototype

    Ameya and I presented the prototype of TrafficFlow yesterday at ITP for our Spatial Media midterm project. It is an installation-based table which visualizes wireless traffic on a local network as gracefully flowing rivers of light. Each user on a network has an individual connection to the internet and may have a conceptual model of […]

  • Thinking Physically: ThinkBig

    Corey Menscher and I worked together on ThinkBig for the Whole Body Interface exercise in Thinking Physically. Corey had the basic idea of making soft switches which would be foot activated. Initially he was going to make three which you’d have to skip between.

  • Thinking Physically: FaceSpace

    Andrew Styer and I worked together to develop FaceSpace – a device which indicates the amount of space in front of the wearer in terms of Proxemic distance. It’s designed to be somewhat impractical, nearly completely obscuring your view and forcing reliance on the dial’s reading while walking around a space.

  • Spatial Media: TrafficFlow update

    Simple updates on the project. The previz applet has mouse control for each of the emitters. It’s interesting to see how the glowing packets influence each other when in close proximity. Here’s the applet. Camera vision. Started working with openFrameworks to do the visual tracking of objects on the table. Unexposed portions of developed film […]

  • Simple things feel so good. (warning: geekery)

    Toggle an integer variable between 0 and 1. Useful for a flag to control program flow in C without boolean types. toggleVar = 1>>toggleVar; What this is doing is right shifting the integer 1 either zero or one place, depending on the current value of toggleVar. An 8-bit (unsigned – positive values only) integer has […]