light painting

Midi control over Counter patch

Lightpainter's picture

Hi!

I'm trying to control pixel accumulator values via midi-controller (Akai MPK Mini or Novation Nocturn). I'm using "Counter" for increasing and decreasing the signal, at the moment it can only be done by using Mac keyboard's arrow buttons (left - and right +). Does anyone know how to map those commands to Midi-controllers faders or rotation knobs? I hope someone understands my question :) Thanks in advance!

Light Painting (Composition by dust)

Author: dust
License: MIT
Date: 2010.07.15
Compatibility: 10.6
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here is a simple feedback based light painting example. it is made to emulate the effect of opening up your exposure on a camera. you will want to mess with the feedback level and after image life settings to paint. results will vary with room lighting and what not. this is a simple example.

you may want blend the original image with the feedback image based on motion detection or something. or maybe threshold and blur the feedback image and use it as mask with the original image to get more clear image where the streaks are not. as it is the effect is applied to the image as a whole.

if you get a white screen when you open just back the level off till you see your self then bump it back up and start painting with a lighter or led.

Light Painting

bAjA's picture

Anybody got any ideas on where to start, if I wanted to use qc to make something like this: http://vimeo.com/5966947

My only thought would be to play with feedback type stuff, but i guess its not that simple...

cheers - bAJA