At the end of last semester, Tiger and I finally showed the big project that we’d been working on for the last few months. Continuing in the theme of my thesis, it dealt with the contrast of real time and stop-motion time; specifically, it explored how those altered perceptions relate to the act of dancing. We also wanted to juxtapose movements of varying speeds within the same piece, so we designed a large setup to record and accommodate a lot of people at once:
We only got to show it for a few hours, but overall the night was a great success, and I was really happy with the response we received. Players enjoyed experimenting with the pixilation technique, and we recorded 14 short animated videos by the end of the night:
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This also turned out to be a nice opportunity for me to learn Max/MSP, which is something I’ve been wanting to do for the last year or so. The project was a live video/audio installation piece, so it seemed perfectly suited for Max, but it was my first attempt at visual programming, so the final patch came out looking like this:
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The horror!