I am participating in Mustaches for Kids, a fundraising effort to donate money to schools in need. Here’s how it works:
- I shave my whole face except for my mustache on Thursday.
- You see me and how silly I look, and it makes you laugh.
- You feel guilty getting all this pleasure for free, so you want to give me money.
- Instead of accepting your money, I direct you to my Donor Page, where you can choose a program to help out.
- We repeat the process for about a month.
For those of you who don’t see me on a weekly basis, I will post a picture of myself on this blog every step of the way so you don’t feel left out.
A new version of the ezGestures library for Processing is now available. Version .40, which is now hosted on Google Code, has no functionality changes, but the download now includes the examples, the source, and the documentation pages. These changes were implemented for the upcoming Processing 1.0 release.
The new Mstrmnd site is up and it has an online gallery with all the magazines and comics. Mstrmnd is the team behind the Tom Tooman A.R.G. we built last year.
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On top of the reflected image, the mirror also displays Louie’s trapped soul blended with an echo of what the camera sees. The camera only records when someone is in front of the mirror, so your soul stays trapped in the mirror until someone else looks at it and takes your place. The computer-generated image is warped using vector fields based on the activity captured by the camera. The code is written in C++/openFrameworks, and is based of the vector field examples given for the Making Things Move class at Parson’s.
The set-up is very simple. It’ just a framed acrylic see-through mirror mounted on an LCD screen. I originally used a projection and it worked quite well, but the problem was that the mirror would hang in the middle of the room. The trick with a projector is to use a short-throw model (like the LED projectors we have on the floor) and to cover the back of the mirror with a piece of vellum paper.
Trailer, the fake trailer compilation that Dick Johnson is part of, is playing one more time at Café Cléopâtre on November 15. The reviews have been great so far, so go see it!
