Ben Thompson – Digital Media

Can you guess what it is yet?

My processing sketch is starting to resemble what I had envisioned in my minds eye. Sensors are all working and communicating with processing, which is awesome. Going to be exhibiting in the partition of space 4 and 5, so I’ve booked it out this evening and tomorrow morning, so hopefully I can identify any logistical problems with the space and iron them out in time for Render.

[  Prototype photos courtesy of Tikul and Jendrek...   ]

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this was intended to be a processing sketch, where mouse position determined which still image was displayed.

i ran into problems with memory in processing… this is probably due to the fact that my images were MASSIVE! (5616×3744) and there was 90 of them. anywhoo, i wrote a simple sketch, that took ages (if anyone has any tips on how to write repetitive code eg…

PImage p01;
PImage p02;
PImage p03;
PImage p04;
PImage p05;
PImage p06;
PImage p07;
PImage p08;
PImage p09;
PImage p10;
PImage p11;
PImage p12;
PImage p13;

repeat a bazillion times… i’d love to know a better way to write this stuff!)

to make myself feel better after my disaster sketch attempt i thought i’d throw all the stills together to make a wee film showing the attempted effect. so i whacked it together, each still lasts 0.48 sec (why not) and i found an sound file i had kicking around. the result is not very good. it is too jerky and i dont like the framed angle swelling as the lens shifts focus. but at least i’ve learned somethings.

maybe it would be simpler and more effective to load a video file into processing… but i’m sure there was a reason why that wouldn’t work.

i shall report back with more findings.