Ben Gotow-Text Rain
I implemented the text rain exercise in Processing and used code from the Background Subtraction sample at Processing.org to do the underlying detection of objects in the scene.
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In Processing.js: As a Java applet: As code: size(404,730); int rows = 22; int cols = 12; int count = cols * rows; int rect_width = 384 / cols; int rect_height = rect_width; smooth(); translate(10,10);...
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The Graffiti Analysis project by Evan Roth makes an effort to capture the motion of graffiti in an artistic fashion. I’m interested in using the Kinect to capture hand gestures representative of audio,...
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Cosmogramma Fieldlines is an interactive music visualization created in OpenFrameworks. It was created by Aaron Meyers for the release of an album by the band Flying Lotus. I really like the steampunk,...
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This project, called “Solar Rework”, is a really fantastic visualization of audio that uses colored blobs, bright colors and glassy “waves” to represent audio data. I think it’s cool because it...
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http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.html The Shape of Song is a way of visualizing music that reveals repetition within a track. It’s an interesting way of profiling a song and revealing the...
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https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hongchan/lush/ “Lush” is an interface that allows the user to interactively explore and visualize music in an organic environment. The notes “swim” through the environment...
View ArticleBen Gotow-Potential data sources
SMS Message Logs: For the last couple weeks, I’ve been working on a tool that syncs SMS messages off Android phones and stores them on your computer. As a result, I have a data set of thousands and...
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So I spent way too much time working on this over the weekend, but I got Processing to draw what I wanted! I pulled a data set of 2200 text messages off my Android phone, and I created a visualization...
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The Idea What can you infer about someone’s social network from their text messaging activity? A few months ago, I started working on an app that syncs text messages from an Android phone to a desktop...
View ArticleBen Gotow-Looking Outwards (Kinect Edition)
So I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do with the Kinect. I got one for christmas, and I still haven’t had time to do much with it. I’m a huge music person, and I’d like to create an...
View ArticleProject 3–Interaction–Kinect Hand Waving
What if you could use hand gestures to control an audio visualization? Instead of relying on audio metrics like frequency and volume, you could base the visualization on the user’s interpretation of...
View ArticleBen Gotow-Looking Outwards (Generative Art)
I’m a huge fan of Dave Bollinger’s work “Density” (http://www.davebollinger.com/works/density/). He does a mix of generative art and traditional art, and he blends computer programming with traditional...
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I threw around a lot of ideas for this assignment. I wanted to create a generative art piece that was static and large–something that could be printed on canvas and placed on a wall. I also wanted to...
View ArticleLooking Outwards-Final Project
I’m still tossing around ideas for my final project, but I’d like to do more experimentation with the kinect. Specifically, I think it’d be fun to do some high-quality background subtraction and...
View ArticleBen Gotow-Final Projects-Hard Part…
I’m revisiting the Kinect for my final project. I’m separating the background of an image from the foreground and using OpenGL GLSL Multitexturing Shaders to apply effects to the foreground. GLSL...
View ArticleProject 4: Final Days…
For the last couple weeks, I’ve been working on a kinect hack that performs body detection and extracts individuals from the scene, distorts them using GLSL shaders, and pastes them back into the scene...
View ArticleKinect Fun House Mirror: Final Post
A Kinect hack that performs body detection in real-time and cuts an individual person from the Kinect video feed, distorts them using GLSL shaders and pastes them back into the image using OpenGL...
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