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[zab5957-blog]

Added some additions to my project, I decided to move a UFO around a black hole. There is an audio effect for every time the space craft moves, music is played, and the frame rate purposely drops to show the effect the black hole has on its surroundings/video manipulation. The music track is paused whenever the mouse is released allowing the user not to hear the same beginning melody repeatedly. The sound effect is stopped every time the mouse is released. Also every time the mouse speed is greater than 400 (relatively fast mouse speed) than the background would flash dark blue. This project uses the processing.sound library and processing.video library.

[zab5957-blog]

For my project, I decided to move a UFO around the center of an image. There is an audio effect for every time the space craft moves and music is played as well. The music track is paused whenever the mouse is released allowing the user not to hear the same beginning melody repeatedly. The sound effect is stopped every time the mouse is released. Added a filter to this as well. This project uses the processing.sound library.

[igme480louie]

For the second project, I used Processing and several libraries to create an audio visualizer. I used the Minim library, which is an audio library that gets audio and generates it into a frequency spectrum. I also used the Peasy library which allows me to rotate my camera and return it back to its original position. I rendered my work using P3D which allows the drawing of 3D shapes. I was trying to make a speaker, emitting sounds and have having cool frequency lines. The problem I had was trying to get the z-axis of the box and the circles to align with each other.

It’s also really laggy when I add the rounded rectangles on.

[jgh6364]

The screen capture has bad quality audio, sorry.

The goal of this project was to use Processing’s sound FFT object to analyze and visualize audio. To deviate from a basic histogram, I used an altered sign wave with ellipses to create a visualization of the audio waveform. The ellipses fade out over time if they are a lower amplitude (< .05) , with only the higher amplitude dots (> .05) retaining full opacity. Below each dot, although a little hard to see in the video, is text which registers that specific dot’s max amplitude it has reached. 

The music I picked out is from a movie soundtrack, and due to it’s more slow and calm tone I chose a very basic and clean visualization style. Here is a more energetic song (Marty Robbins “Big Iron”) instead of the slower one:

https://www.screencast.com/t/uGMDzFmBQ

[igme480louie]

I was messing around with Processing’s mirror2 example and changed the color of the dots and messing with the hue and saturation. If my hair was a different color and my entire background was black, I could’ve looked like a super saiyan.

[jxh9922]

For this exercise, we were playing around with some of the examples in the video capture processing library. The goal was to modify a previously existing example. I took the example called “Framingham” and partially combined it with the “Mirror” one (as seen in the first “block”). I also slowed down the frame rate to 5 fps and made the background color purple.

[jgh6364]

Only code pictures this time because my webcam only works on my laptop which currently does not have enough storage space to download processing

Redone using a video instead of a capture

For this assignment, I took the example that found the brightest pixel in the video capture and modified it to also find the darkest pixel. First, I found the brightness of of very first pixel in the video capture. Then, it’s compared to each subsequent pixel until one is darker. The darker one and it’s x,y coordinates are saved, and this process continues until the darkest pixel is found. A green circle is then drawn on this pixel to denote it’s location, the orange circle shows where the brightest pixel is.

[zab5957-blog]

Sketches upon Movement

Created a simple app on Processing that as someone movements occur, lines move showing that movement.