Digital Media Bursary - more WiP
In between everything else, I've managed to squeeze in a few hours on the bursary, mostly working with the images shot so far, seen previously here.
With some help from Aldo I've done an interactive version of the timelapse movie. Clicky link.
Next is working out how to do an interactive installation, with no need for mouse or keyboard...
This has involved learning my way around Director at a rather higher level than I've managed before, using a motion-capture plug-in called Webcamxtra and struggling through it's rather... opaque documentation. Then bolting this onto a SPi-V panorama so that the motion capture results are controlling the motion of the panorama.
Anyway, after a frazzling day, I've got it half done! If one side of the camera view has more motion than the other then the panorama will accellerate in that direction, and if there is no movement then it gradually comes to a halt. Stand one one side and wave your hands in the air!
Next (and potentially more complicated) is making the panorama fade through different 'times' depending whether there is more movement in the top or bottom of the camera view - the idea is to mount a camera above the projection screen, so that people near the screen will be in the bottom of the image, far people in the top.
This way, when you first walk into the space the projected image will travel back in time, once you walk up close it will start moving forwards in time. In theory...
Ian
Re: Digital Media Bursary - more WiP
Ian excellent work, i really mean it.
Its not often the boundaries are pushed, as most stuff you see in VR is just standard VRs just photographed in different ways IE HDR, Infra red, hanging from kites etc.
But this really is pushing it again to another level and without creative people like your self, VR would come to a stand still, as im sure others will now be thinking of new things they can add to this method.
Your ideas remind me of when i was serving my apprenticeship as a Truck mechanic. every morning i would get into the garage at 8am (well usually 8.05 lol), and the boss would sit for half an hour watching the time lapse video of the truck yard for the whole night before, to see what has happened. On a Monday morning, he never started work for 2hrs or so, after he watched every min of the weekend, checking on the drivers and the way they drove the trucks.
I can just imagine what he would be like if he had this technology, he would never get any work done playing all day!!
But that was the good old days when i used to work for a living, now i take photographs and get paid for it :D
Shame the money is no where near as good, amazing im now 32 coming up and get paid less than when i was 17 doing a more reputable job in the public's eyes.
Regards
Ian
PS Is that you with the laptop sitting on the big rock thing?
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Re: Digital Media Bursary - more WiP
Aldo - I can send you the Director file if you'd like, although it's a bit of a kludge at the moment.
Ian - yes, it's me with the laptop. I couldn't resist adding a few self-portraits in. ;-)
Ian Wood
Landmarks of Britain
Azurevision
Re: Digital Media Bursary - more WiP
"Ian - yes, it's me with the laptop. I couldn't resist adding a few self-portraits in. ;-)"
I love that effect, Ive done it a few times, just walking around in the background, makes me feel like Alfred Hitchcock lol.
But its amazing what you can recognise from a thumb nail on the IVRPA forums ;o)
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CMS Systems, Web Design, 3D Animation
www.QuickTimeVirtualReality.com
Object, Pano, Multinode, QTVR, Flash, Java
Re: Digital Media Bursary - more WiP
Smashing stuff... I've been meaning to rig SPi-V to webcam control like this for a while (so many things to do, so little time). Nice idea with the vertical separation.
Thanks for testing the timelapse viewer like this, I'm dicovering some bigs here and there... I hope to have some updates soon.