before building the prototypes for my project, I decided to work a little around the visualization of the eye tracking data in the physical space. I took a projector, tilted and keystoned a little. I have some ideas coming, but I am not sure how to wrap them up. Basically, having seen these line-graph-like visualizations on the floor, a person can hold a piece of what paper/cardboard (something that resembles a projector screen) on top of this curve, and start seeing the movie that the curve is related to. Moving the board forward/backward (or left or right, relatively) he can browse through the frames of the scene.
Some photos from my test is below.
Archive for November 11th, 2007
I received my train set, with all that passion of the little boy having his Christmas gift, I set it up in front of the six screens. very romantic.. On the software side, things look like resolved in the video issue; Dano’s library looks OK for now, but knowing that the random quicktime crash still exists somewhere between the bits of the computer memory makes me a little anxious: Quicktime in processing is giving ‘access memory location’ error once in a while, and a lot of ITP brains (and obviously more from outside, as it can be seen in the processing forum) worked to resolve that issue. Bunch of little tweaks, and Dano’s library looks fine. (a very easy way to crash if you are obsessive: myMovie.play(); myMovie.play(); -> crash!!)
However, project successfully passed the first test last tuesday, when i presented my project to the class and the guest Burak Arikan, a Turkish fellow from MIT Media Labs. It was nice have some personal chat in Turkish :). My project was up, without any crash for more than 10 hours, which was quite acceptable.
JohnTrain on the six screens from Sinan Ascioglu on Vimeo.