http://www.spikything.com/blog part designer. part developer. all creative Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:41:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/webcam-spherize/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/webcam-spherize/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:35 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=116 I cobbled this webcam demo together for no other reason than creative curiosity – a half of mirrors for the information age, I guess – source]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/webcam-spherize/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/20/head-tracking-in-3d/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/20/head-tracking-in-3d/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:44:14 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=113 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 →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/20/head-tracking-in-3d/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/10/multitouch-for-the-masses/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/10/multitouch-for-the-masses/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:38:43 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=98 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 →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/10/multitouch-for-the-masses/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/webcam-controlled-3d-earth/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/webcam-controlled-3d-earth/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:02:26 +0000 Liam http://spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/webcam-controlled-3d-earth/ 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 →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/webcam-controlled-3d-earth/feed/ 3 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/webcam-controlled-motion/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/webcam-controlled-motion/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:55:45 +0000 Liam http://spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/webcam-controlled-motion/ 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 →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/webcam-controlled-motion/feed/ 9