ICM

midterm project - Spirit Mirror

2006-10-26T00:19:00.000-07:00

The Spirit Mirror allows the person who is staring at his/her reflection to alter his/her image by blowing into a microphone. The altered image turns dark and a random white shape appears. While the person goes about staring at the reflection and altering it, a haunting piece of music plays in the background.

Relevant resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit
The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning "breath" (compare spiritus asper), but also "soul, courage, vigor", ultimately from a PIE root *(s)peis- ("to blow").

[ Khronos Projector ] simplified demos

Steps required to implement the code:
1)Run live video from the computer webcam to act as the “mirror”.
2)Implement microphone signal code.
3)In the signal code, when the force of the blowing is at or above a certain signal value, display a dark overlay.
4)Then display a random white shape.
5)After a certain delay, have the mirror go back to its original state.

Programming challenges:
Getting the microphone signal data to correspond well with the appearance of the dark background and white shape.

6th assignment - Work with serial or video input

2006-10-19T02:22:00.000-07:00

Processing code:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~jsl398/icm/be_happy/applet/be_happy.pde

If you cover the angry face by your hand, you will get the happy image and sound on the screen!

Materials to build "Be Happy" :
Analogue inputs are two photocell sensors and digital output is Processing & sound library

5th assignment - input from a text file or URL

2006-10-19T01:56:00.000-07:00

lyrics of Bon Jovi's It's my life on the Internet
If you click the mouse, change the background image Click here to see!

4th assignment - duplicate the object using an array and loop

2006-10-11T22:59:00.000-07:00

If you mouse over on a flower, it will be bigger!: Click here to see!

3rd assignment - Re-organize the code

2006-10-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

I made Caleb's awesome city using class: Click here to see!
If you click the mouse on applet, day change to night.

2nd assignment - develop a set of rules

2006-10-11T22:53:00.000-07:00

If you click the mouse in the applet, you can see the flowers falling: Click here to see!

1st assignment - implement your own static screen drawing

2006-09-12T22:49:00.000-07:00

cherry blossom - flower of zoog: Click here to see!