Blog | CHIMIRA

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 25, 20191 min read

Updates to come!

I'm so behind on blog posts but only because there's so much going on! Spring is almost here and there are many colourful updates are on...

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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

Feb 6, 20191 min read

It's a beautiful thing!

Finally got my patch to draw dots in the correct tracked colour! How? I've been stuck on this for a while when my friend Daniel suggested...

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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 17, 20191 min read

ABCD's

Abstracting and Building Coll Data We've got some x, y locations but what about using it now? Dr. Hamel and I previously discussed some...

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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 6, 20193 min read

Learning from others...

Since CHIMIRA is in its early stages, what better way to get things started than from the discoveries and pre-existing methods of fellow...

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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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andreahywong

Dec 26, 20181 min read

A Blank Canvas

And so it begins! Time to bring all those expectations and ideas for CHIMIRA to come to life...

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