Posts tagged with “experimental” and “hislope”
October 29, 11
More Flash Halloween Webcam Toys
Welcome to this time of the year again when people scoop out pumpkin seeds and costume shops make their year's worth of sales during one weekend. Halloween! So nice to be kids again. **And now you can be one too, without even leaving your computer desk – just hit the images below and have some fun.**
We've teamed up with Leipzig Flash studio [Tastenkunst](http://www.tastenkunst.com/) and made these two apps. Marcel Klammer and his team had developed [Beyond Reality Face](http://www.beyond-reality-face.com/) technology which allows using human faces as markers for augmented reality. [PhotoBoo](http://7evenine.com/photoboo/) substitutes the face so you can experience how does it feel to be a (dead) celebrity.
[GooTube](http://7evenine.com/gootube) is based on my last year's experiment – [Black Hole Sun](http://play.blog2t.net/face-com-hislope-halloween-demo/) and similarly uses [face.com API](http://face.com) technology to find feature points in a face, but then [BRF's Point Tracker](http://www.beyond-reality-face.com/sdkPT) is used to track these points and finally [HiSlope](https://github.com/og2t/HiSlope) helps to apply the distortions to the live webcam feed.
**Both apps utilise FaceBook connect so it's even easier to socially share your alter ego (and even set your FB profile pic!)**
Now go and make goofies out of yourselves. And don't forget to spread the word - boooooooooo!
Many thanks to PtitJean for his initial face.com API for AS3.
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October 31, 10
face.com + HiSlope Halloween mash-up
The idea was chasing me for a while but there was no time to finish it. Until now... Halloween! – seems to be perfect day for this. So, here you go: HiSlope + face.com API mash-up, click below and go into some wild disguise!
September 28, 10
Boiling the soft egg aka Webcam Stories
If you came here after seeing my FOTB talk – that's great! Thank you! Make sure you've seen the [Black or White vs Machine Vision mash-up](http://play.blog2t.net/files/black-or-white/) first. Then head to the HiSlope GitHub repo to [download/fork the HiSlope toolkit](http://github.com/og2t/HiSlope) and have fun. **Yes, HiSlope is opensource!** I am going to add more examples, couple of cool and previously unreleased Pixel Bender filters and more tutorials/documentation soon, so make sure you [follow me on Twitter @blog2t](http://twitter.com/blog2t). Please send comments and feedback, I'd really like to hear from you! Any Q&As - catch me at the conference.
__Update:__ I've added the video from my pitch.
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January 30, 10
Static Mirror installation for Hidden Door festival
I have a pleasure to announce that I am a part of the [Hidden Door Festival](http://www.hiddendoor.org/) - the event is happening during this weekend at Roxy Art Club, Edinburgh. I got commissioned to make an interactive installation that I've called Static Mirror. So, if you're Edinburger – come along to see the exceptional maze full of art and bands performing live, otherwise just enjoy my piece on-line. __Click the image above to activate (webcam required.) There's a accompanying noise, so mute the sound if you are i.e. at work.__ © 2010 Tomek Augustyn. All rights reserved. If you're looking for a deeper meaning, please read the artist's statement. > Coming out of the underground club, Tomek brings the idea of interactive VJing into a gallery space by confronting visitors with the imagination they might have about themselves. He asks the old question – “Do our bodies exist for real or are we just a bunch of particles bound together by invisible forces as a temporal form of expression?” The answer could be found by observing the nature of static noise reflection – as long as you move, you are. On a technical note, the piece uses my HiSlope (alpha) video processing engine (shortly available as open-source.) **You can also press '/' to play with the manual controls and '\' to view the stats for the camera.** 06:11 PM | posts | 2 Comments | Tags: as3, hislope, osx, fx, experimental, pixelbender
August 02, 09
Machines are looking for Michael Jackson
Today passes [my 5th year of living and working in the UK](http://www.flickr.com/photos/og2t/sets/72157621798561063/detail/)... feeling in sort of a nostalgic/festive mood, did some cool VJing last nite and decided to spend semi-hangovery afternoon doing some (softcore) flashcoding. I got some good feedback and suggestions (thanks you know who) to my recent [Terminator Salvation "machine vision" experiment](http://play.blog2t.net/terminator-salvation-realtime-machine-vision-as3/) and decided to explore that area a bit further. This time I've managed to add "the real face tracking" ported from OpenCV by Masakazu "Mash" Ohtsuka (with some great optimizations by Quasimondo) to my video processing framework (codename **HiSlope**) which should be hopefully released within a couple of weeks (still need to do some important/major refactoring). Follow me on [twitter.com/blog2t](http://twitter.com/blog2t) for updates. So I was looking for some perfect video to use for testing... couldn't think of anything really. Then suddenly the spirit of Michael Jackson (RIP) came to me and whispered into my ear: __"Black or white?"__ – and it was all clear then :) Enough words, **click the image to sing along**.
I found this video particularly challenging – with loads of head banging and different races (skin tones, facial hair etc.) – which actually makes a perfect source material for testing.
And again, I am really surprised by the final result – it's still not the fastest (I am getting 20 FPS in browser and about 35 FPS in standalone projector) but the main task is achieved.
The filters' settings were optimized for the video, so if you switch to the __webcam mode__ you probably won't get your eyes detected (there's still a bit of work for me to do on it – that's why I am not releasing the sources yet), but do try to play with sliders, especially with __HSBC__ (no, not the bank, it's **H**ue, **S**aturation, **B**rightness, **C**ontrast) – enable it by clicking the checkbox on the left) and __Eye Finder__ – enable debug and adjust __blur__ and __fuziness__.
So, where's Michael? He's wandering somewhere in that black puma's outfit, fighting with racism. Watch out!
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