<< ben fry video experiments
During the Fall of 1998, I did several experiments dealing with video input. Each of these run real-time, using a video camera or television signal as a raw stream of image and color data. I've included movies and screenshots here, they use use the trailer from Fargo as the input video to be re-visualized. View the trailer movie (5.6M, quicktime).
	still images | video The application shown here arranges each of the individual colors in the image based on their brightness, darker colors at the left and brighter ones to the right.
	still images | video This example constructs the image out of letters. The individual letters are chosen based on the brightness of that area of the image, so dark areas might use a small lowercase letter, whereas brighter portions use denser letters, such as a W. The movie is large because the effect doesn't work in smaller format.
	still images | video This piece re-organizes the pixels of the image into their respective locations in the hue, saturation, value color model.
These projects were developed several years ago on an SGI machine. Nowadays, they would be less than a page of code when done with Processing. Someday when I have a few free hours, I'd like to recreate them using its video API. << ben fry