Laser Shadow Update – now with OSC

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I have connected the computer vision / blob tracking software to the laser so now with proper lighting conditions the laser will draw your outline as you dance around in front of it. It works best if the wall is a solid color and brightly lit so the thresholding operation can pick up your outline. [...]

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Static Attraction at SBCC

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

A few of us MAT students were special guests at the Studio 4D final show at Santa Barbara City College on May 19, 2009. In addition to screening the students’ final video projects we were invited to give short presentations and demonstrations of some of our work. Ryan McGee and Aaron McLeran performed some of [...]

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MAT Colloquium Video Intro

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

I collaborated with Aaron McLeran, a fellow MAT student, to produce a series of introductory videos for our department’s colloquium series when they are posted online. Both the music and the visuals are generated on the fly and different every time. Below is a sampling of some of the takes: Media Arts & Technology Colloquium [...]

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Animation stills uploaded to Flickr

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I have acquired a Flickr account to efficiently display large amounts of images from my projects. My goal is to show the wide variety of images that are feasible with the program I am writing as well as making it easy to trace the evolution of the program as new features are added and animations [...]

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Jesusita Brush Fire Panorama

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I experimented with photostitching using Photoshop’s Photomerge functionality using four images I took of the current Jesusita Brush Fire in Santa Barbara, CA. I took these images from the second floor of our building here at the UCSB campus. Click below to see a bigger version! See the Santa Barbara Independent for info on this [...]

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Particles: Marbles

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Marbles I from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo. I have been playing with particle systems that have individual position and velocity but are also affected by other particles and the environment. In this case there are hidden “hotspots” in the field that affect the particles’ velocity vectors. Marbles II from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo. When a [...]

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