Hi all,

Thanks for the great info. [pix_mean_color] is awesome! I was looking for something like this for a patch. My patch is very similar to the ones in this thread, but I'm looking to have multiple synths generating sound using different areas of the movie or picture. I'd REALLY love if I could specify a polygon, single pixel, or set of pixels (arbitrary or along a ling segment or curve) within the picture, for [pix_mean_color] to use.

I've been searching through the gem objects for a way to limit which pixels [pix_mean_color] will see. I imagine another possibility is to show limited areas of the same video, each in a different patch, and then use [pix_mean_color] as in patches above. I'm not experience with gem and can't imagine how to do either. Has anyone done this?

Best,

Chris

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Antonio Roberts <antonio@hellocatfood.com> wrote:

Hi Alan and Claude,

Thanks for your insights. I now understand that there is no one "true"
way to convert colour to sound and that there will always be a
"tuning bias", similar to what I already did in my Pixel Player
software.

Thanks for the heads up about the [pix_mean_color] object, I think
I'll incorporate it into a new version of the software.

Antonio

On 9 April 2015 at 21:20, Alan Brooker <alan.brooker2010@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Ant!
>
> Perhaps try looking at [pix_mean_color] object? Attached is a patch that
> I've cleaned up- it just extracts RGA values from loaded video then unpacks
> them for 3 [osc~] objects-crude but could be starting point I hope
>
> ...best!
>
> Al
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Antonio Roberts <antonio@hellocatfood.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've been studying the work of Neil Harbisson for awhile and I'm
>> looking to try and replicate in part the functionality of his eyeborg
>> using Pure Data. I have already built a simple patch to convert pixels
>> to sound but now I want to expand on it. Here's my initial research:
>> http://www.hellocatfood.com/sonification-studiespixel-waves/
>>
>> Colours don't directly relate to sound and so Harbisson and others
>> must use a scale to assign colours to sounds. Some initial research
>> brought these up:
>>
>>
>> http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/files/2014/03/Harbisson-The-Sound-of-Colors-TED.jpg
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16681630
>> http://www.lunarplanner.com/Harmonics/planetary-harmonics.html
>> http://www.flutopedia.com/sound_color.htm
>>
>> Can anyone think of a way to translate this into pd? In the end I
>> would like to be able to display a block of colour on screen and have
>> that generate a specific note.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Antonio
>>
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