projection mapping

Hi, Juddy from Melbourne , Australia.

I am looking to track slow moving balloons and then project on them in darkness with a Kinect or IR camera setup possibly using quartz with audio reactive plugins.

Currently looking at a combination of Kinect, QC, Modulate and Madmapper but having trouble getting this to work.

Can anyone with similar experience suggest a different setup/chain/workflow?

Thanks very much in advance

Juddy

here is a proof of concept I'm working on that utilizes my midi arpeggiator plugin.

this video demo's the use of the floor as an interactive instrument. the project target is to be a children's discovery museum exhibit.

while building this instrument it became apparent that some sort of interpretive and or choreographed dance / theatrical routine could be performed with multiple kinects and or triad chord articulations in concatenation with a second person. like setting one foot to be a chord and the other to lead instruments starts making much more complex instrumentations.

the implicit intention is to teach children cognitive and muscle memory through a cross modal auditory and visual sensory feedback system based on the body and motion. in other words a giant musical simon says type of game, which ironically isn't as fun to watch.

the idea isn't entirely novel as i have seen a few interactive floor projections and multiple floor pianos. you can even buy these types of things. most people ask why there isn't a chromatic scale and my answer is that it would sound like a cat running across your piano keys at night time. as it is now its fun for most ages as it requires no musical talent at all.

I'm thinking of some to incorporate rhythm, like possible maybe looping play head people jump or something to create rhythm sort of like a jumping rope idea i guess. i want to make it fun for kids but don't want to make the cliche hopscotch piano. any thoughts on this subject. has anybody done anything similar.

Hi,

I'm looking for a mechanism to perspective transform video for projection onto a curved surface. A package like 1024_perspective would be perfect if it weren't for the fact that I all of the patches that I've found only have corner pin transformation options. I really need sort of... mid point pins as well (which I obviously realise entails far mor advanced transformations).

A system which maps video onto a mesh such as PB mesh might be a partial solution but I really need to be able to tweak the parameters of the warp without having to create a new mesh.

I know it might be possible to write something using the GLSL shader in Quartz Composer but I would have to teach myself OpenGl code as its not something I've met before. It's something of a long term project but so its not something I would shy away from however I would rather not have to.

Does everyone have any ideas as to how to go about this?

Thanks.