An attempt to make something with low-fi live video.

The video is used to randomly determine colors and shapes. Once a color is found, it will be tracked in every image of the video. The program will then draw shapes corresponding to that particular color. By mixing colors and a few other parameters, we obtain some kind of painting tool, very unpredictable but certainly interesting.

I made a short video of the thing in action. This capture has been made with a fixed camera and a moving subject. At that time I didn’t realize I could also move the camera itself! (which is the case for above pictures)

Putting squares together from Emmanuel Pire on Vimeo.

This sketch has been inspired by minicubes by antiplastik. After adding noisy effects, it looks quite impressive. Midi controlled as always.

I can’t wait to present this live…

This effect is an old Processing sketch but is still my favorite. Very slow effet, like an eclipse in some unknown galaxy…

This effect has been used in the terrific live @ Les Atelier Claus with Sebastien Rien and noussommesquatrevingt (video at the end of this post).

Live @ Les Atelier Claus - go to 2:36

My philosophy about VJing is it should require human input. If it doesn’t, then it’s just a nice screensaver. That said, reacting to sound can be interesting, so I dived into it, and made some tries on using the sound wave, frequencies, etc…

Here is my favorite sketch so far on this topic, I’ll post others soon.

These images are snapshots of a Processing sketch I call Cloud4. The inspiration was the great skrewell. A Micro Korg has been used to generate the signal that generates the shapes. The sketch can be controlled by MIDI to modify the final rendering.