Update since my last post.

Been awhile since my last post so I thought I’d better play catch up. I installed flash and had a play around with some code but didn’t come up with anything useful. Michael added me on msn later that night and sent me some code that proved our concept by blurring a picture based on how much activity was in frame, but it wasn’t what we were after for our interaction.

I organized at meeting with Nathan Hoad on the 4^th may to help me with the code. On the 2nd of May at midday I got a SMS saying we had a group meeting at 1pm. After a few confused SMS’s back and forth it was found that Julia thought Jo had SMS’d me and Tim and vise versa. I was at work at the time and unable to attend but they organized rolls for us for the presentation for the following Tuesday. Earlier in the week I said I was ok with doing the group task of the 100-200word write up by myself and that was the task I was given for the following week with Tim Jo and Julia doing a poster each.

On the Sunday I got together with Nathan and we started to work out how to do the coding. It was our original idea to take a percent of the image being taken up and convert that to a blur amount. I found out that the activity levels only really read movement from the edge of your body and not all of you so my way of thinking was impossible. What we did is set up a series of lines with each line having multiple activity hit points to capture the activity. As a person hit a new line the amount of blur would change. This was good in theory and we got the lines with hit point set up to the point of adding the blur. But it was getting late and we were unable to apply a working blur to our theory, but luckily we had the proof of concept blur FLA that Michael sent me earlier in the week.

We got together Tuesday morning at about 8am and worked on our presentation which looked good on paper but when it came to presenting came across very boring and am worried that our concept didn’t come through as well as we might have hoped. I organized with Dekker to send him my code so see if he can see why or our blur wasn’t working but as far as he could see the variable we set wasn’t returning a number and was unsure what we actually wanted to do with the code. So I told him to leave it and organized to meet him this Tuesday the 13^th to try and explain it better in person and hopefully get our blur working.