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’ve been playing around a little with the online Flash building tool, Wonderfl. If you haven’t seen it already, I urge you to create an account and have a go. You can browse the weird things that people have created, fork other users’ code, or write you own from scratch and see the results compiled online in realtime. It’s a great way to learn graphics coding in AS3 I reckon.
I started playing around a little more with my Webcam and extended my previous 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 area and general direction, albeit with dubious accuracy, but you get the idea.
Due to popular demand, I’ve posted the source code for you lot to play with. It contains the FlashDevelop project file (it’s compiled with the Flex 3 SDK) and my cut-down 3-D engine, Pants3D 🙂
I played around some more with my webcam today and knocked this out. I also found my webcam already has the IR filter missing (cheap webcam), so it can already see infrared… which will come in handy:
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