Category Archives: Webcam

Experiments and demos involving webcams and Flash

Webcam spherize

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Liam

I cobbled this webcam demo together for no other reason than creative curiosity – a half of mirrors for the information age, I guess – source

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Head tracking in 3D

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Liam

I started trying to find useful things to do with face detection, but with limited success. I tried using the Libspark Haar Cascades implementation of face detection with Papervision3D to create a sort of head tracking effect, but it’s a … Continue reading →

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Multitouch for the masses

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Liam

Just spotted a video on James Alliban‘s blog of how to make your own cheap multitouch table. It’s a lot easier if you’re not initially bothered with projecting your image back into the table – otherwise you’ll need a projector … Continue reading →

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Webcam controlled 3D Earth

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Liam

Playing around some more with my webcam, I cooked up this 3D Earth with Papervision and made it controllable through a webcam (if you have one). The motion detection is rather flaky, since it tracks the centre-point of a whole … Continue reading →

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Webcam controlled motion

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Liam

I started playing around a little more with my webcam and extended my previous webcam motion detection example – this time to control the camera of a virtual 3-D space from motion detected in the user’s webcam. It detects motion … Continue reading →

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