Monday, February 18
Today we met in class and discussed several ideas for project 2. We are not entirely certain on what we would like to do but we are thinking about using the Vicon motion capture system in HRBB 505.
Wednesday, February 20
Today we discussed more about our ideas for Project 2 and after a few hours of debate, we decided to create a prerendered video using the Vicon motion capture system of the girls' dance, add aesthetics to the data using processing, and have the girls dance in front of the projections for the performance. All the details have not been worked out yet but we will have more soon. Here is a simple picture of the setup of the performance. The pre-rendered video will be displayed on the 2 large screens.
Friday, February 22
Today we all met in HRBB 505 to capture the dancers' motion on the Vicon system. JJ worked hard and was able to get the data captured correctly. JJ is now going to take the data he captured and turn it into joint data that Van and I can use to make the aesthetics in processing. Van and I will also be responsible for writing a program to add more points to the skeleton. More to be added to this. Still not exactly sure what is needed.
Sunday, February 24
Today Van sent a little test demo of what she created with some sample data that JJ had from the Vicon system. You can click this LINK and check out her simple results. I am going to now create a program to reads in the text file full of joint positions that JJ creates and output a similar text file but with more joint locations. This will remove all of the gaps in the skeleton that can be seen in Van's video.
Monday, February 25
Today was a class workday and we made a little more progress. Van and I continued to work on the visual part of the project, deciding what looked better and what colors worked best. JJ and the dancers had to go back to the HRBB lab and re-record some parts of the dance.
Wednesday, Febuary 27
Van and I continued to wok on the visualizations in processing. I have finished the program to add extra joints to the text file. Now we just have to work out the final kinks in the code. We tested the project in class but the colors were a little to dark so we must re-render the video with brighter colors so the video is visible on the screens.
Saturday, March 2
Today Van and I finished up putting the final touches on the visualizations in Processing. We rendered the video and now are getting ready to add the song to the video for the performance! And lastly to line up the video in madMapper to get the projection done properly. Here is a picture for the video of the rendered data.
Monday, March 4
Today was the big day! We presented today. Thought it went really well. The girls changed the idea slightly of the performance and so their physical dance was only in sync with the virtual dance projected on the screen. The idea was that what was shown on the screens was simply an alternative to what the dancers chose to perform in real life. Here is a video of the performance!
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