my digital playground

This week’s task were about 3D modelling in Processing. You can build your own objects and figures based on vertices. But Processing is also capable of importing 3D models in various formats from your favourite modeling program. (continue reading…)

This post is all about video. I created a small video recorder and a tiny app which tracks brightness and a specific color. (continue reading…)

This weeks tasks were all about color and how we can use Processing to work with them. (continue reading…)

According to Wikipedia, “Image editing” encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Images are stored in a computer in the form of a grid of picture elements, or pixels. These pixels contain the image’s color and brightness information.

In our case, we altered digital photos and learned mor about how to manipulate pixels and techniques to overlay several images. (continue reading…)

Based on a tutorial from psd-tutorials.de I experimented a bit with photoshop and created a 10-years-later picture. I added some grey hairs and crinkles and retouched unaesthetic details. (continue reading…)

After brainstorming and collecting ideas I drew some snaps onto paper. The storyboard shows the idea and a little bit the way how I’ll realize it. I intend to use several of my own photographies of my last holidays in Kenya. I’d like to animate them and present them in a appropriate way. (continue reading…)

Some graphical work done with Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator. (continue reading…)

During the ‘Multimediatechnik’ (MMT) module we have the task to plan and create a small animation. My idea is about doing an animation with several effects (morphing, zooming, etc.) applied on pictures (probably taken by myself) and a specific logo.

I don’t know yet, how (technicial realisation) to realize it. But further details will be posted on this blog. Check back soon!

Also playing and generating MIDI sounds with Processing is quite easy. I did a small applet which plays a choosen MIDI-File and generates some sounds. (continue reading…)

Today’s processing task was about programming a music player. There are several ways to implement music tasks (playing, recording etc.). I took the Minim library. Another one is the Ess audio library. I heard from my colleague Jürg Stalder that Minim didn’t work on his Mac Book and therefore he realized it with Ess – and as we can see, it works too.
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