Experiments and demos involving webcams and Flash
I cobbled this Webcam effect together for no other reason than creative curiosity – a digital hall of mirrors thing, I suppose. Best viewed on your laptop, since it requires Flash and a Webcam…
And for the techies, here’s the source code (zipped FLA).
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 little flaky – partly because of poor tracking accuracy and partly because it’s too CPU intensive. You can view it on its own page here.
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 area of motion – if you move a lot it will just get confused 🙂
