Friday, August 13, 2010

Idea2: Body as Mask and center of animation

Animated arms swing out and around from center point of dancer. Can use body to mask out center shape. Illuminate center? Perhaps for most of it.

Idea1: Image Threshold Bursting





Repeating pattern as a class, each in stasis until punctured by the image of dancer.  Shouldn't be too hard. Utilizes BW theshold of video layer and looks for pixel interaction. Require that camera be still.

Strategies for Chamber

Part of my process when doing visual programming is to sketch out what i would like the end result to look like, then try and reverse-engineer that image line by line with code. Here are some ideas bouncing around my mind of how realtime animation could look like on stage.