iOS Issues

This is a screencast of me testing Flash CS 5.5’s export function for iOS devices and the iPad (as it would relate to my thesis). Unfortunately this feature will not work for my thesis (to use in addition to the Kinect), but my thesis committee agrees that one particular device isn’t the point of the … Read more

Direction for the Background: ‘Internet Noise’

For the background of my design, I decided to create visual noise based on live twitter interactions. Below is a sample screen recording of the background direction. Each square represents one tweet. The alpha channel (transparency) of each square is in direct relation of the number of ‘retweets’ of each post (i.e. the ‘loudness’ of … Read more

Initial Blob Tests with TUI and Socket Server

In this test, I was using the TUI framework to pass coordinates to Flash using a socket server. The setup can handle multiple points (blobs) but I was only working with one at a time for this test. Flash Blob Test with TUI socket server and actionscript from James Pierce on Vimeo.

Initial Kinect Setup

Attached is my initial video posting of my progress documentation. This initial video upload was recorded after I got the kinect working on my Mac Mini server. Thanks to the OpenKinect development community for making the process so easy. Kinect Initial Setup from James Pierce on Vimeo.