Structrualist Image Video Generation

timatron's picture

Hi Guys,

I've made a prototype of a project, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it in quartz now to speed it up. The project gathers images from websites and constantly moves them up across the screen. This will run for days and days and days. I need to deal with memory leaks and a queue, but haven't quite figured out how to do it in quartz yet.

http://vimeo.com/25262239

Here is my current beta test, but it was done in a rather hacky way without quartz.

Any ideas on a tutorial or some examples that might be able to do a moving slideshow without running out of memory.

Thanks! -tim

cybero's picture
Re: Structrualist Image Video Generation

Depends upon the level of support within QC for the amount and type of scripting involved to be directly hooked up to the image stream.

If WebKit Plug In by Coge supports the level of scripting involved, that would probably fit the bill running locally.

On the other hand, if you run the bot from a web server, then access in QC via WebKit plugin, there's one other option. So the web-bot page is read directly in QC WebKit.

Here's another option, with an added time lag, due to this one requiring one to run the Internet bot, cache the results then load these via an XML file generated from reading the directory structure created by the saving of say 50 images at a time into a directory folder, from which folder QC retrieves the images and presents them in series.This, I'm imagining , would be scripted / coded in something like PHP, ASP or Ruby.

You could multiplex across different hard wired directory addresses.

Having said all that, I bet somebody else will have a better idea. I'm kind of pooped out on that front having laid all this down :-).

Hope that helps you.

timatron's picture
Re: Structrualist Image Video Generation

Thanks!

I already have a bot written in python, and I can put the images into directories in any batch size. My problem is more on the QC, actually scrolling images up and replacing them. I can hack together straight code any day, but put me infront of a patch bay style coding environment, and i'm basically a moron.

So I was able to create 4 scrolling images with billboards, but I cant figure out how to get the top billboard to follow the bottom one after it goes off the page. I was figuring one computer to be the bot, one to generate the QC imagery, and one to serve up a stream. Does that sound reasonable?

Maybe 3 macminis in a row.

-tim