11 - Workspaces 2 projection development

It became obvious to us that the use of cartoon animations would not be that effective, they are a bit to clinical and clean we needed somethimng a bit more gritty, rough and powerfull. Searching online f

or images and inputting them into after effects we created the animation.

We also had to have a bit more thought in making the motion tracking as in the smoking area there would be some people out there to cool down or spend time with smokers. So we needed a way to only target smokers with the motion tracking. The only way we could think of doing it is using BitmapData  in flash completely iradicating the need for Arduino. So that is what we did. I searched online for tutorials on how to track colour and found an open source file online. With a few tweeks i had managed to get it to work tracking a lighter.

This was the motion tracking done. But we needed to make sure it only worked when people came outside. So using the microphone code from MOKI (http://www.oneforthedesigners.co.uk/moki.html ) I made it so the projection only kick starts once it hears something of loud volum, in other words when the door of the club opens and music blairs out the programme will start sensing movement. Below is the flow chart of how the projection works.

As we are not projecting our final piece actually in the environment we projected it in the class room we had to create and electric cigarette using an LED, 9v Battery, Resister, Wiring and rolling parifinalia:

The lit up LED will eb monitered by the sensor it will see the movement and the animation will play.