This is the greatest time of the semester; ITP is full of weird projects hanging around, my projects are about to be finished, and all the couches has somebody sleeping on it.. (Robert Moon, is sleeping right next to me, and he has a cellphone on his forehead!?!).
Anyway, I prepared official web pages for the projects:
here are the two videos from the dress rehearsal for JohnTrain! Everything worked fine, no quicktime problems, no delays… Frame rate is a little low, and we will see what to do with that.
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.
Here is my first date with actual six screens. In the videos below, you can see the simple application we come up in 2 hours with Robert Moon. The videos attached side-by-side are moving left/right with the speed defined by the position of the mouse. The outcome looks amazing, and we are going to use this for a train scene; first, the videos move so fast, it looks like a regular train moving, then it slows down and we focus on cars of the train individually. Audio has more volume in the conversation in the car that is in the middle of the screen, but you can also hear the rest at some volume. But big big problems:
sync problem; MPE couldn’t sync the videos that well.. You can see that two screen (two different machines) are out of sync in the timing of the video.
memory error; we got these memory errors over and over… I couldn’t find the photo that I shot, but I will post them as soon as possible
here is my initial tests on Eclipse, successfully installed on Windows Vistaaaa! But I had a problem while trying to run one of my older processing applications: 'color' primitive was not working, eclipse was giving an error for this. Howdy?? code is below: Continue reading ‘Eclipse - Processing Test’
Hello, here is my blog for all the classes I am taking. I will keep one blog for all, since I am considering combining projects for classes, I hope this will be a nice solution. You can check out the class specific posts via 'Categories'.
By the way, am I the oldest minded person in the earth or is blogging something really hard to do??
