On May 23, 2006, at 11:47 PM, Tomi Dufva wrote:
Does anyone have good suggestions for this kind of problem:
We are doing simple interactive sound installation for one
gallery, where webcam is used for motion tracking and then the
tracked values are being used to trigger sounds and alter them.
we are using 4 speakers, and alltogether playing 2stereo files at
most.Problems we have: 1.a good motion tracker patch, only one we have found is the one
example patch in gem. This is ok, but if anyone has better we are
happy to hear about it.
First off, motion tracking with video is limited, don't expect
amazing results, because no one in the world is getting them. If you
are serious about motion tracking, then you need to have a high-
quality camera, not a webcam, they are too noisy. Also, you'll have
much better results if you use a black&white camera with an infrared
filter. Color cameras generally filter out infrared, so they won't
work.
These projects use this kind of camera setup:
http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/reacTable/ http://tmema.org/messa/messa.html http://thesystemis.com/drawnInstallation/
- playing soundfiles, we are looking for a patch to play wav or
mp3 or aiff files where we could change the speed, etc. easily.
- And then we are looking some interesting things to alter the
soundfiles. The soundfiles are rather long recordings of rain, so
normal sample players wont work.
My current favorite is feeding strange numbers into [fdn~] from
creb. You can get an example patch from Day 3 - Sound:
http://puredata.org/docs/workshops/walcheturm06
.hc
If you know some ideas we would be happy to hear about them! Thank
you!ps. we are using mac mini 1,25ghz wiht 1giga of ram and running os
x 10.4.6 and pd 0.39.2-extended test3
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