Saturday, May 21, 2011

Check List

I have been meeting with Pete Nordquist a few times and our last visit he gave me a few steps to go through and try and figure out.....I'm sure this will be part of my summer homework as well.

  • Job 1 – Do this tutorial:

http://processing.org/learning/gettingstarted/

  • Identify where shape is read from kinect.

  • Determine how a shape is reprented
  • What kinect primitives you can primitives you can call.

  • Determine how to read in a MUD image and display it.
I have been involved with SOAR this past week and that has taken A LOT of my time. I presented my NoiseInk and had it up on Tuesday May 17th from 3-5.

Monday, May 2, 2011

NoiseInk & Kinect Update

This is what I have been up to for the past few weeks. Until Microsoft releases their Windows opensource package (sometimes this Spring. Probably be early summer) I cannot work on this project or my own Capstone on my laptop. The reason why I wanted this to work so badly was not because of a project for photography but to see if it it possible to get the Kinect and a Mac to communicate and work with one another. Thankfully because of two professors and the trust they have in me the school had an extra mac. (in a round about way of saying it) In the video below it describes NoiseInk and what I went through to get it to work. (took me roughly 2 hours. Making sure files were in the same right place then getting the Kinect and Mac to communicate)





I have been working on mudbox images these past few weeks while working on the Kinect and NoiseInk. I have lost one model that I did at school....I guess I didn't save it in the right space? Anyways so I only have three half way completed models. I am struggling with the idea if I want the creatures/monsters to portray something or just have them be ugly and grotesque for the viewer. If I did want them to portray something I would do stereotypes....... Or things that people kept hidden or a secret. As in The Jock, the loud mouth, etc. etc. Need to think on this more and experiment.....