I was asked to think about the future of cameras and how they will impact or lives. I came up with a few ideas, some more distant then others.
Short Term
I think image stabilization could easily be improved by allowing the user to hold the shutter button down, but only firing the shutter when an accelerometer in the camera says that the camera is appropriately stable.
Medium Term
Through advances in image pattern recognition and optimization, new picture taking modes could exist that search for classical balance and proportion. Only when a composition presents itself that includes 20 golden rectangles can an image be captured. This would help amateur photographers better understand the principles of composition.
Long Term
The ability to compare dimensions, specifically in relation to your body, seems like a useful piece of information to be included in the photo. Which makes me wonder of the future of the photograph itself. In the future cameras will most assuredly capture information in a three dimensional format. Probably through the use of stereoscopic vision like our own eyes. This would weave the extra information into the display rather than simply including it in the Metadata.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Color Tracking Fun! part 3
Back at it with color tracking and the gang. This time are sights are set on driving the streets of NYC in a virtual car. We had several immediate problems that made it impossible to work outside. It began raining and we were using an auto gain webcam which was making our lovely neon pink squares appear white.
We grabbed a better camera and headed to upper floors of Tisch to shoot in a larger location. The code was riddled with problems and made it nearly impossible to get satisfactory shots. Nevertheless, Winslow had an idea brewing and was able to stitch together a story of a class field trip.
Wicked Awesome!!! from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
Elffervescence made a debut in the space scene, this time wearing a black background.
Angela's awesome documentation again.
We grabbed a better camera and headed to upper floors of Tisch to shoot in a larger location. The code was riddled with problems and made it nearly impossible to get satisfactory shots. Nevertheless, Winslow had an idea brewing and was able to stitch together a story of a class field trip.
Wicked Awesome!!! from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
Elffervescence made a debut in the space scene, this time wearing a black background.
Angela's awesome documentation again.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Color Tracking Fun! part 2
The following week we all met again and decided to have a dance party. We invited some of our friends and danced in front of a short throw projector projecting party videos from amongst the ISH. Music by Mylo, "I'm back".
MASKPARTY featuring Coconut Horse, ODB, Lemonhead, and Mario from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
This time the code was changed to calculate the angle between the two green squares and display the images of various heads onto our bodies. We created a make shift head gear device out of black foam and rubber bands, to which the green squares were attached.
Another inside look by Angela Chen.
MASKPARTY featuring Coconut Horse, ODB, Lemonhead, and Mario from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
This time the code was changed to calculate the angle between the two green squares and display the images of various heads onto our bodies. We created a make shift head gear device out of black foam and rubber bands, to which the green squares were attached.
Another inside look by Angela Chen.
Color Tracking Fun!
After working with blobs and the OpenCV library to create "Granpa Loves Valentine's Day", Winslow Porter and I combined forces with Meredith Hasson and Angela Chen to tackle color tracking.
Using Dan O’Sullivan's color tracking code as a starting point, we began to develop a simple and sometimes reliable way of determining the location of two green squares from the pixel data of a webcam. From the location of each square we can then determine the distance between the squares and even the angle of a line drawn between the two squares.
Gone Fishing Debugging from Matt Richard on Vimeo.
But what to do with such a thing? After a quick brainstorm, the act of fish-story telling, specifically the phrase, "a [fish] this big!" would be captured in augmented video and a simple story would be told.
Catch of the Day from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
The code can be found here along with an awesome inside look from Angela Chen.
Using Dan O’Sullivan's color tracking code as a starting point, we began to develop a simple and sometimes reliable way of determining the location of two green squares from the pixel data of a webcam. From the location of each square we can then determine the distance between the squares and even the angle of a line drawn between the two squares.
Gone Fishing Debugging from Matt Richard on Vimeo.
But what to do with such a thing? After a quick brainstorm, the act of fish-story telling, specifically the phrase, "a [fish] this big!" would be captured in augmented video and a simple story would be told.
Catch of the Day from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.
The code can be found here along with an awesome inside look from Angela Chen.
Rainbow Waves et wake
Awhile ago I played around with Dan Shiffman's SineWave processing applet. I only adjusted a few lines of code but was able to create complex patterns. I added a fade by drawing a rectangle over everything at a low transparency. I changed the color mode to HSB(Hue Saturation Brightness). The warping effect of all of the ellipses is because their positions determine their size and color. The striation was created using modulus.
When I want to show a Processing sketch online I always upload it to OpenProcessing. This sketch became popular very quickly, which I attribute to an awesome thumbnail. A few weeks after I uploaded Rainbow Waves it was added to the "featured ones", a goal I wanted to achieve since September of 2008.
I then created two other sketches shortly thereafter that were inspired by a combination of Rainbow Waves with a classmates homework and color sequencing from the color_tile series I worked on last November.
Marios Color Wave
Elfervescence
When I want to show a Processing sketch online I always upload it to OpenProcessing. This sketch became popular very quickly, which I attribute to an awesome thumbnail. A few weeks after I uploaded Rainbow Waves it was added to the "featured ones", a goal I wanted to achieve since September of 2008.
I then created two other sketches shortly thereafter that were inspired by a combination of Rainbow Waves with a classmates homework and color sequencing from the color_tile series I worked on last November.
Marios Color Wave
Elfervescence
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