Class tues 22nd

Over the week I was asked to find a spotlight and get the white cotton cloth we needed for the backing of the picture frame. After a quick Google i found my nearest store, bought the cloth and brought it, a glue gun, stanley knife and staple gun to uni in preparation for finishing off the photo frame.

We went to class which started painfully late and afterwards i quickly went and got my swipe card needed to help in the workshop. The four of us all helped apply the cloth to the frame which took us a few hrs to staple and add supports so it wouldn't fall apart. I needed 15mins afterwards to meet up with some people and agreed to meet Tim in a lab to start work on some of the coding. When i got to the labs i couldn't find Tim and after a phone call, asking around if people have seen him and aimlessly going from lab to lab several times i gave up. I did find Michael though and got this details and will contact him tonight when he gets home to get that link for the fading code he mentioned a few weeks back.

Jo also bought a copy of flash CS3 so I've headed home to install that and try to grasp the code that has already been done and work on adding to it for the presentation next week.

Thursday Art Gallery

Visited the art gallery and during the week a group blog was created by Jo to show our progress. Both the findings of the art gallery and our group blog can be found at

http://bettathaneveryone.wordpress.com/

Class Tuesday 15th

We get to class on tuesday and sometime in the last day Tim has sent me the code that him and Michael did on the weekend, but i was unable to open it in Flash proffesional 8 because it said it was a unknow file format. I found out that it was because it was created in Flash CS3 and would not open in any version before it. So i am unable to look at the code and try and figure out how i can help future improve and add to the code. I said i can get a copy of CS3 in the coming week and then be able to start helping with the code. Michael also informs us of code he is aware of that makes a image blur similar to what we are looking for and said he will send us a link at some point.

At this point we were still using an eye toy as the camera so i bought a photo frame and eye toy into class to go with our presentation to show our concept, but found that with the code that they have done any camera can be used so we look at finding a small webcam instead. Julia has cut the wood to size for the frame and varnished it looking very snazzy.

group meeting friday 11th april

We met up at uni today to discuss how we were going to go about our project of the virtual mirror. We decided that we are going to go with the idea of a image that is blurry and the close you get the more clearer the image becomes.

It is decided that Jo and Julia will do the physical frame and Tim and I will do the coding, i offered to meet Tim tomorrow (saturday) to try and get motion sensing to work from the code i found at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html which has a step by step tutorial on how to do it. But Tim informs me he is meeting with Michael from our class tomorrow to look at code that he has already implemented in a similar fashion. I asked if he would like me to come with and he said it should be find and we would meet on Tuesday to go over the code. Julia and Jo were meeting on the weekend to go to bunnings to pick up material and I for the time had nothing to do.

Group notes from Thursday

Notes from Group Meeting

Sections for Written Assignment

§ Background survey – Tyson (400+ words)

§ Audience – Tim (300+ words)

§ Experience – Tim (400+ words)

§ Constraints – Jo (400+ words)

§ Project Plan – Julia (500+ words)

o Milestones and deliverables

o Roles and responsibilities

Topics for Presentation:

§ Ideas for the mirror representations – Sketches. (JULIA)

§ Technology (JULIA)

§ How we think it will work – role pay .(TIM)

§ How it relates to the theme (TIM)

§ Target audience/ where it would be (TYSON)

§ We know it can be done because of other projects (TYSON)

§ Constraints (JO)

§ Our roles (JO)

Where it would be:

§ Homes

§ Art galleries

§ Public places, ie Queen Street Mall

Target Audience

§ People who use mirrors

§ Kids (for the cartoon reflection option)

§ Families

§ Art Students

Constraints

§ Time limit

§ Our knowledge in the technology we need to use, eg – coding.

§ The technology itself, eg – eye toy being able to do what we want it to.

Our Roles

§ Coders x 2 – Tyson and Tim

§ Graphic Designers – Jo/Julia (need to pick)

§ Flash – Tim

§ Physical Construction – Jo/Julia (need to pick)

Frame – made of wood. (Random)

Braingstorming on Tuesday

Technology

· Pressure pads

· Wiimotes

· Eyetoy

Ideas

Games

Throwing game light sensors

· Throw a ball at multiple targets on a screen

Virtual golf using wiimote

· Use the wiimote as the club and hit an invisible ball. LED lights light up the path the ball would have taken.

· Possible a 3D version to watch on screen.

· Problems with multiple putts?

· LEDs hard to do?

· Physics problems?

Dancing Game

· Make sensor mats for a DDR style game.

· Include wiimotes for hand gestures and foot movement.

Water fountain

· Only works when people walk by

Pictures

· Voice recognition that shows pictures of what you said

· Might have to narrow it down to a category of words

· Need big databases

Location

· Find items through tagging them with RFID , something with Bluetooth?

Virtual Mirror

· Different people

· Random people/characters

· Person in photo gets further away the closer you get to the picture, and moves forward the further back you get

o Problems with multiple people?

o Good theme/interesting to interact with

· Picture is black this you approach. The closer you get to the image the more it is revealed

· Two monitors cover the upper and low torso height and hung in front of a mirror. And a person walks by it changes their shirt and pants to a comic style bikini top and bottom, or kilt and police shirt.

o Problem with people being different heights

· 2D easier to do

· Work with Eyetoy

· Won’t be able to sense people turning around.

· Possibility of using hand gestures and body movement

Coding

o Flash

o Processing - maybe