The lapse between updates.

In the time frame between my last post and this, I have graduated from university, and have spent the time looking for work.

I am currently looking for something within my degree field; a BFA with an emphases in Computer Imaging. Essentially, that means anything that is creative, and deals with 5 volts or more of electricity, I’m the guy you’re looking for.

• Web design and maintenance (HTML, DHTML, light Javascript, light CSS, Flash and AS3)
• Video Editing and post processing
• Max/MSP/jitter work, or Arduino work
• Print and Digital Graphic Design
• Photo enhancement/manipulation (photoshop)
• Typesetting
• ..And more! I’m a versatile individual, and can easily pick up other skills fairly quickly.

Updates will continue again once I get a chance at some free time, and some disposable income!

Patches for 11/15

Patch exploration with jit.grab, as well as AI behavior, keyframe calling.

Patch 1: Creature Tracker patch: Video screen tracks and follows motion from camera input. (In Gallery below, listed as creature_movement…*.png)

Patch 2: Mood_Movement patch: Combining patches to allow for motion tracking by “creature” with Jeff’s patch allowing for specific key frames to be called based upon volume level of audio input. (In Gallery above, listed as mood_movement…*.png)

AAI Creature Installation Mock

Here are three views of our planned installation for AAI Creature.

AAI Creature Installation Mock – View 1

AAI Creature Installation Mock – View 2

AAI Creature Installation Mock – View 3

Creature AI Ver. 001 beta

Basic Creature AI (Click for large view)

This is a basic, currently theoretical, version of our responsive/interactive corporeal creatures AI. It is a simple, redundant loop with minimal goals, but plenty of self checking for optimal performance.

Project #2 – Tracker to MIDI patch

Melodic Spatial Responses

Melodic Spatial Responses

Using cv.jit or Computer Vision for Jitter to track a designated object (by selecting it with mouse) to determine the MIDI output. Uses real-time performance and spatial/time based input to create a composition ala John Cage.

Note, Windows users use: jit.dx.grab
Mac users use: jit.qt.grab
(You’ll know which one you need, because the wrong one appears darkened/broken (thx Candace))

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Weekly Patch 11/1

Face Tracker

Face Tracker Patch

This patch recognizes and traces faces via the webcam and cv.jit or Computer Vision for Jitter

Note, Windows users use: jit.dx.grab
Mac users use: jit.qt.grab
(You’ll know which one you need, because the wrong one appears darkened/broken (thx Candace))


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Meme Mayhem Live – Oct. 4th 2009

“Meme Mayham” is a patch of custom software made for

Afternoon Delight Karaoke,

an interactive performance hosted by Rebecca Dolan

and Adam Trauwein.

“Meme Mayham” was created in the program Max/MSP. This patch works

interactively

with the performer using the pitch of their voice to vary the brightness

of the video projected on

screen.

Here is a short clip of the patch and

performance working together.  OR [Performance] (as a label for the

text)

Here is a short clip of the patch.  OR [Patch] (as a label for the

patch)

October 4th, 2009

2pm

Afternoon Delight Karaoke @

The Walnut Room,

3131 Walnut St

Denver, CO 80205

“Meme Mayham” is a patch of custom software made for Afternoon Delight Karaoke, an interactive performance hosted by Rebecca Dolan and Adam Trauwein.

“Meme Mayham” was created in the program Max/MSP. This patch works interactively with the performer using the pitch or volume of their voice to vary the brightness, contrast, saturation, or play position of the video projected on screen.

Here is a short clip of the ”Meme Mayham” and performance working together.

Here is ”Meme Mayham” as a MAX/MSP patch

Patcher view of the Meme Mayhem Live

Presentation view of the Meme Mayhem Live

Which is also downloadable to the right as ” SFlater_PitchJumper.maxpat”

Meme Mayhem
October 4th, 2009 - 2pm
Afternoon Delight Karaoke @
The Walnut Room,
3131 Walnut St
Denver, CO 80205

October 23rd, 2009 – 6pm
MSCD BFA Thesis Benefit @
Translations Gallery,
1743 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80202

A better way to share files!

I was playing around with a better way to share files over a blog structure such as this one, and surprise-surprise, WordPress already had an answer to our problem. While the compressed-text format of sharing projects is good and handy, what if we have multiple patches or other files that need to go along with our patch? The answer is box.net, and the box.net wordpress widget.

If you look to the left of this post, you will see a box titled “SEANS FILES   box” This is the box.net widget with a file that you can download (it is a .maxpat file!)

To get one yourself, all you have to do is click the “make your own box.net widget” link on my widget, sign up at box.net for a free account (limited in file sizes(25mb) , max size (1gb), and whatnot, but we don’t need much) and add the sidebar widget through your blogs dashboard, and bang, a new way to upload files for the rest of us to download, pretty easy to use, too.

My recommendation though, use the compressed-text format still for small patches or single patches, and the file service for zips/rars and other files.

-Sean

More free plugins for MAX

Here are a few interesting plugins for MAX/MSP…
… please note, there is a slight bias towards Windows patches, but not exclusive for. If it has a Win/Mac version, all the better. Just make sure you check before you download, otherwise it’s just a waste of time (learned the hard way with some of the Mac ones… like pitch~)

Flash Server (Win and Mac)
http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/flashserver/

“The flashserver external for Max/MSP allows for bidirectional communication between Max/MSP 4.5 or later and Macromedia Flash 5.0 or later.”

Wacom Tablet Control
Win: http://www.akustische-kunst.org/maxmsp/download/wacom-1.1test4.zip
Mac: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/files/maxdl/OSX-MachO/wacom_4.0.tar.gz

“Report the location, pressure and other parameters of transducers on a Wacom Graphics Tablet. You can use several tablets and several tools with different wacom objects. ”

Pitch~ (For Windows)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/MaxMSP/WinPitch~.zip

Link to Essay: Notes On SuperFlat and Its Expression in Videogames – David Surman

@ Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media (ISSN:1447-4905) website

Abstract: In this exploratory essay the author describes the shared context of Sculptor turned Games Designer Keita Takahashi, best known for his PS2 title Katamari Damacy, and superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. The author argues that Takahashi’s videogame is an expression of the technical, aesthetic and cultural values Murakami describes as SuperFlat, and as such expresses continuity between the popular culture and contemporary art of two of Japan’s best-known international creative practitioners.

“Videogames are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the insufferable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn’t know when I was sacrificing all my coins to him that he was going to conquer the world. Perhaps [this is] because he is the most graphic metaphor of Man’s Fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment, and he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of enemy attacks, it always comes a cropper (Marker, 1984, p. 325).”

Read the entire essay here: http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/05/23/notes-on-superflat-and-its-expression-in-videogames-david-surman/