Week 3: Update

This weeks focus has been to create a movie player that you can control through a webcam, as well as being able to change the frame rate, colour exposure and distortion of the image on screen.

First we created the basic movie player:



moving on to have multiple screens that allow us to access the computers built in camera, change the RGB preference and changing the planes of the video.



next patch created allowed us to play a video in one of the following planes or colour values: Red, Green or Blue:



Continuing from here, we now add centroids to our MAX patch, finding the centre of mass of an object in the playing video. There are a matrix of points that create the movie. The dark values create a blob or centroid. Centroids will calculate the centre of this blob.

By adding in buckets and equations we can calculate the speed of the object in the specified space.



As final product, we were to create a patch of a bouncing ball, which is controlled by the blob detection system of your hand moving in front of a camera. Once this has been completed I will post more on my experiences with this patch!