Experiments!

Arty…

Been a while since I’ve updated this place…. Been busy working on loads of different things, mostly tracking things still, but also been working on making pretty things(generative - interactive art…kind of…)that work in real time, whether its been using a mouse, a touch screen, a laser, or a strange little pattern on a piece of card(see earlier posts!). Also been playing around with sound too, which has been fun…

I’ve come up with this code-thinking of making it accessible for release on the iPhone as an app, for no other reason than I think its pretty!! Was thinking maybe I could change it to become a sound visualizer for the iphone….

Handwriting Gestures

Been a while since the last post, so I thought I’d share a little of what I’ve been working on lately. In the last couple of days, I’ve put together this simple gesture library to try and recognize gestures as letters to create a simple little app that types out what you write on screen.

Each letter or object has been given a series of points in a certain order, that are all stored in a series of arrays that runs a function that searches for the closest match and then prints out that target to the screen (see above for an example).

So far it can only create the letters of the alphabet in capital letters (and numbers), but would quite like to add more to this-punctuation marks etc. Maybe also some kind language changer would be an idea. At the moment its basically just a single touch application, but I feel there could be more functionality added to it by adding in more than one touch, but at the same time keeping it so it isn’t overly complicated and simple to use…

Touchlib and Flar version2

Been a few days since I last posted…. Mostly been job hunting(anyone fancy giving me a job to mess around and experiment with new tech, feel free to email?!!) and sorting out random crap that I seem to attract and keep hold of, but I thought I’d take a morning off from all the boring real-world Boll@!ks and mess about with Flar and touchlib again, so just tried adding a loader to a touch event on a simple MovieClip using two cameras again, the first one tracking from the front looking for the markers and the other is the usual IR camera tracking the blobs from behind the screen.

Again, nothing polished just yet, but yet another thing to build on….