Dear All,
I would like to share the AirHackTable project with you which, among other things, has yielded the new (official) [pix_colorclassify] and [pix_equal] objects in Gem.
The Airhacktable is a musical instrument which is controlled by color origami that float over a grid of recycled coolers. The table is itself an origami made out of recycled cardboard. A webcam captures the movements of floating origami and transforms their flight patterns into sound patterns, in real-time. Each color modulates a distict "voice". The origami can be left to float by themselves, or can be coerced/played with by the "DJ" operator (pix_colorclassify effectively performs skin masking).
The website for the project is
http://wiki.nosdigitais.teia.org.br/AirHackTable
Instructions on how to install and operate color detection/classification are also available therein in the form of a text file and also through video tutorials.
This project has already been presented at several occasions in Brazil, notably to thousands of people in Festiva Contato www.contato.ufscar.br, and its color-based sound modulation engine has also been used in live coding sessions (in Festival Contato as well). Thank you Pd for putting together such an awesome software that has enabled all this and many other events!
I will be presenting the ins and outs of the software at the International Free Software Forum (FISL) at a workshop tomorrow.
A new AirHackTable will be built in another workshop at SESC pinheiros (Sao Paulo).
Hope the project ideas, code and color detection tutorials can be useful.
Dr Ricardo Fabbri Professor of Computer Engineering GNU/Linux registered user #175401 www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPRJ labmacambira.sf.net