December 16, 2007, 1:11 pm
It's a peaceful Sunday, it's snowing pretty heavily, but it's nice to see it looking like a real winter. I've connected my patch that plays video forwards or reverse in response to movement in front of the camera. The snow and wind is playing video successfully for as long as my camera stays on without going into auto shutoff. The power adapter to my camera was lost a long while ago and since I've had to rely on short intervals of non-recording usage of the camera.
I think it's difficult to see from the screenshot above, but the video from small floating window is what the system is using as data from the camera to control the playing video in the larger window.
I'm becoming more and more intrigued with the potential for allowing the natural world to control systems in this way. While motion is just an easy way to bring in information and create some kind of analogy for the way we can interpret the same information, I still find it effective in the potential for an ever-changing system controlled (literally) from the outside. the next step will be to gather some kind of more meaningful video for the system to play and to further experiment with what information can be gathered from the natural world.
We are unable to sense wind in any haptic way unless we are being actively hit with it. Instead we rely on our vision, our hearing to interpret the speed and intensity of wind. Why should a computer system not have to deal with the same information. While my system is currently only knowing that there is motion, and not necessarily that that motion is wind, I still think it's interesting to try to approximate human vision, or at least the kind of interpretation that human vision needs to attempt to comprehend the world.
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