POTENTIAL

andreahywong

Mar 24, 20201 min read

Performance Idea - Umbrella

Short blurb here: but it'd be lovely to have a #dancer with a coloured #umbrellas create music. With #gestural tracking, you could even...

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andreahywong

Oct 17, 20192 min read

Introducing... TRACI!

CHIMIRA had a baby, and its name is TRACI (TRAcking-Color Interface)! Dr. Bob had a few suggested upgrades for CHIMIRA that involved...

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andreahywong

Aug 26, 20191 min read

TaSTE Collab: KiCASS + CHIMIRA Part 2

Some exciting new updates! We've got one kick-ass chimera! ;) Using code from CHIMIRA to refactor KiCASS code to incorporate...

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Research Collaboration with TaSTE (Tracking And Smart Textiles Environments) Part 1

andreahywong

May 23, 20191 min read

Research Collaboration with TaSTE (Tracking And Smart Textiles Environments) Part 1

So excited to be working with Dr. Bob on his TaSTE project! He's interested in using CHIMIRA's colour-tracking functions with the...

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andreahywong

Apr 19, 20191 min read

Presentation

Thought I'd link my powerpoint for my capstone presentation at Bang! Festival for those who are interested. Had a great time sharing...

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andreahywong

Mar 26, 20191 min read

LEGO, leggo!

Had to arrange for my old #toys to get into the city since I moved out for university but they’ve arrived! These #LEGO duplo #blocks...

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andreahywong

Mar 17, 20193 min read

What's in a node?

This week I looked into the Max [nodes] object. Haven't confirmed exactly how I want to use it for my coloured objects but more...

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andreahywong

Mar 7, 20192 min read

Lights, Camera, Action!

It was quite a productive day with Dr. Hamel today! Lights: Still searching for the optimal light source... Since the single LED...

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andreahywong

Mar 6, 20191 min read

Starting on MIRA!

Time to get started on the hardware parts of CHIMIRA! Introducing M.I.R.A (Motion-Image Relaying Apparatus) or... the beginnings of it...

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andreahywong

Feb 14, 20192 min read

Playing with poly~

Wow, today was such a productive day! Dr. Hamel and I worked on creating a module that will play a sample correlated with each colour and...

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andreahywong

Feb 12, 20191 min read

We have sound!

Started making a sample player #module! It's far from perfect but we have #sound! Pink and Red are working well! #happyvalentinesday It'd...

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andreahywong

Jan 30, 20191 min read

Let there be light!

Considering lighting options for a controlled environment. I've started thinking of what light sources to use for CHIMIRA. It's been...

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andreahywong

Jan 28, 20191 min read

M.I.R.A. is on the way!

The Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD auto-focusing seemed like it was going to cause some trouble with colour tracking objects if my hands...

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andreahywong

Jan 26, 20191 min read

Multiple Instances of 1 Colour

Dr. Hamel and I explored the possibilities of tracking multiple instances of the same colour today. Right now, we have the centre...

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andreahywong

Jan 12, 20191 min read

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Onto tracking more than one fish! I mean... colour! Since the abstraction is more or less done, putting it together to track several...

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andreahywong

Jan 11, 20191 min read

Tracking can be Abstract(ed)

After deciding to replace [suckah] with another method of color tracking, it's onto making #abstractions to track more than one color!...

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andreahywong

Jan 10, 20192 min read

Bye-bye [suckah]!

Dr. Hamel and I met up for Week 2 and discovered the [suckah] object was not working properly just on my computer. It seems that others...

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andreahywong

Jan 9, 20191 min read

Fixing jit.findbounds parameters...

Turns out I forgot I stripped out my image of all its color to only produce white when the selected colour was present! So instead of...

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andreahywong

Jan 3, 20191 min read

How does one track a rainbow?

Step 1: get MaxMSP to start color-tracking objects! Had my first check-in for my #capstone project today: Dr. Hamel and I discussed how...

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