I am a textile design student who is learning to code and finding it all a bit overwhelming but I am told this is a friendly and helpful space full of amazingly talented people therefore I am persisting! I am however hoping that someone may be able to lead me in the right direction with my latest project…
I am looking to create a real time interactive piece that tracks arm movement (specifically) but i’d be happy with any type of body tracking which will then paint out a pleated texture in response to the movement that will then fade out after roughly 30 seconds.
ofxCv &/or ofxOpenCv for tracking.
textures as in images? or shaders? creating both is simple, especially the image. since its just well, an image
tweening & lerping is good for fading
you will get better results with a high resolution camera, but it can be done with webcam
Amazing! Thank you so much, I’ve been working my way through your tutorials too which have been super helpful! I’ll give all this a go I think i’m going to make it as a shader but will probably explore images too just to see what looks best.
I hope to start playing with a Kinect at some point but keeping things simple to start with Thanks so much again for the response
For body tracking, id go with a kinect right from the start. Body part tracking with a webcam is pretty hard (have a look at openpose). A Kinect gives you body part tracking built-in so its much easier that way.
Also, there are tons of tutorials/examples for it.
I think i’m going to make it as a shader but will probably explore images too just to see what looks best.