Checking in

I promise I haven't just been sitting on my butt doing nothing. A lot of thought and time has gone into my project and I'm starting the programming. On Monday I met with David Bithell to discuss where I'm at in my project. (he's helped me since Fall term......and I'm not sure I would have continued this project if it wasn't for him.)

I told David I was at the point of programming (the part I've been dreading this entire time)........I had two options. 1.) I do this on my own 2.) I have someone else be the brains for this part. We discussed about my options and concluded that since I dabbled in Max studio 5, he knew a path to do what I needed for this project and that it would probably be the easiest for me. Rather than learning a programming language or putting someone through the steep learning curve of the Kinect. I will be checking in with Davidweekly to see if I have any questions or concerns to ask him. He told me I had the hardest part over with which was getting everything started and working. Phew. That was a relief. We worked a little on my program that will run the models in live mode (aka the viewer) and pre-recorded movements (when the models get a life of their own)

This is the basic program to get my programming started. There is a Live input and pre-recording (I will do many that the models will be able to do at random) David and I discussed the program must flow between viewer input and pre-recorded so it doesn't come off as "broken". We added a function that does just that. It flows between the viewers movements and pre-recorded so there's no abrupt change it's gradual.

Pre-recorded input......I will record myself doing some sort of action and if I'm correct with a few other functions put together the model will react based off of the pre-recorded videos! (A lot of information was crammed into my head in a short amount of time) I know what I have to do so no worries there.

Oh! I forgot to mention. When I get my program made I can export it/create it and the program can work on it's own. AKA in theory it can run on it's own without Max supporting it!