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August 11, 2005
Realtime webcam manips
Realtime webcam manips: This is very exciting for me... Andreas Rehnberg uses the beta Macromedia Flash Player 8, gives it a webcam feed, and his ActionScript overlays flames atop areas of changing pixels. Result: He waves his arms, they burst into flame. (The sample is in QT format because of the screen-capture utility used -- does not require FP8 to view.) You know what this means, of course... we'll never, ever, ever have to sit through another discussion like Janet Jackson at the SuperBowl, ever again...! (Seriously, check it out and consider what he's doing, it's wild, many possible applications.)
Posted by John Dowdell at August 11, 2005 02:24 PM
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Very exciting times... Used to be that you had to use Processing or Director to do stuff like this, but now Flash is getting close to having the necessary performance, especially with some of the hardware accelerated features I have heard about on the Mac-side. I imagine we will start to see much more like this when Studio8 launches...
SetPixel examples:
Robot Mirror
Retro Fabulous
Posted by: mray at August 11, 2005 06:20 PM
That's a really cool effect. I wonder how me managed to get the motion tracking so smooth. Nice fire to!
Posted by: Peter at August 12, 2005 12:31 PM
http://www.unitzeroone.com/eightball/motionDetection/
Wave and see the glow smoke go!
Posted by: Ralph at August 14, 2005 03:50 PM
Posted by: Antanas at April 26, 2006 07:47 AM