Wiimote + Graffiti

As you can see, Matt isn't wearing his wrist strap. this means that in furious bouts of drawing, lamps, TVs, and small children may become damaged by flying Wii Remotes. Don't try this at home. :)

I was actually hoping to try it at home. Any chance of getting the composition?

Hmmm... i happen to have done a pretty advanced paint tool with QC, like a stripped down photoshop. I'm going to have to try it with the wii stuff!

Right now it's hard-wired to be controlled by midi stuff, but after our show tonight, I'll try to generalize it and post it here for others to play with :)

(The controlling is for colors and sequencing/replay... specific to our performance)

I have done similar stuff but using processing. http://www.vimeo.com/1432337 I would love to test how this one performs

This was actually inspired in part by your video :) This one isn't quite as complete as yours, but it works for our needs (quick sketches mixed live and played back in sync with audio loops)

So thank you, Alex, for the cool idea and inspiration :)

Chris, what kind of performance is this.... a visual/dj thing? An art installation? Are you a musician as well?

It's primarily a music performance, but there are interactive graphics as well. So art I guess :)

I'm not much of a musician, but I've been known to write some pretty decent code from time to time... :)

Cool That is what I had in mind to work next. Simple looping animation that will respond to the music. I would love to see yours.

I'd LOVE to try this at home is there a tutorial I could follow?

there is a paint example in the developer examples you will want to hook up the wii mote x and y to the spot where the mouse patch is located. remember you will not be able to draw very good without a IR bar. it actually works backwards to meaning drawing with the IR bar instead of wii mote

Sorry How do I get to the developer examples?

Is it on Kineme.net (this website) or somewhere else ?

Thanks for your patience!

(I'm such a noob!)

/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Compositions/Conceptual/Accumulator Paint.qtz

actually here is the converted developer example its pretty easy to make. i will hope this works as i don't have a wii mote handy to test. we have a bunch at school. this example is predicated on the fact you have an IR bar. press + & - to sync press A button to draw and minus button to erase.

what i did here is basically add IR functionality and feed the X&Y into a smooth patch with continuos sped to make sure you have smoother numbers. in addition i ran the X&Y coordinates into a interpolation patch with external time turned on confined to the bounds of the screen. 1 because i forgot what values this thing spits out and 2 so you can keep the drawing on the screen.

let me know if this works for you.

I think that Chris's setup actually did some kind of cool caching of image...

Was it posted ever?

Dust has set you up with a good one though :)

The other cool thing you might like to try is to dig in and look at the particle tools example compositions, in the particle tools plugin source download, and find the one called "particle paint". Then, you can hook in the x/y stuff in a similar manner to what Dust has posted. Things like the gravity or vortex stuff can be connected "to taste".

Many many thanks you guys for responding you're AWESOME! I'll try it as soon as I get home!

Ye har!

cwright wrote:
I'm not much of a musician, but I've been known to write some pretty decent code from time to time... :)

I'm not much of coder, but I've been known to write some pretty decent music from time to time.

No, actually, that's not true... damn.

a|x

haha TB your the man. i actually listened to your music site for the first time yesterday. i really like the b/w mouse chromo zoom thing. i was checking out your tracks and i really like them. i was going to post a calling TB message in the forum and ask you if you have or by chance if i could snag a copy of some of your tracks in 320 kbs. i like the samples in duck. the siren was a sound i had been looking 4, for a long time now. one of my teachers asked us to remix a public service announcement visually. when she played "duck and cover" a 50's public service announcement my jaw hit the floor when i herd the perfect siren. so i made a track for the visual re edit of "duck and cover" . its funny i listened to your song duck and wondered if you got the sample from that movie. i think the other sample comes from a classic record called hold your wig. anyways just wanted to share this with you TB and ask about getting a 320kb version of your tracks.

http://www.pixel8r.info/emc2/OBEYNOW.aif

@ chris if art and music are not your thing you can always make electro its rather simple in comparison to other genres. music theory always helps but you gots the essentials down like midi and the audio tools etc.. so there shouldn't be any reason you can't make techno music. unless your tone deaf then i might be hard.

I tried wiiPaint.qtz and got the following error I think I may have the wrong Patch

Macro Patch Cannot create connection from ["IR X" @ "WiiMoteControlPatch_1"] to ["inputValue" @ "Smooth_1"]

Macro Patch Cannot create connection from ["IR Y" @ "WiiMoteControlPatch_1"] to ["inputValue" @ "Smooth_2"]

(null) State restoration failed on

Could you post a link to the correct Patch or Attach it here?

Many many thanks and then some!

Cheers

do you have the wii mote in your patches folder or plugins folder ??????