Chun-Yi Wu: Assignment4 - Mapping Proposal

Concept and Process
    For this project I took some photographs in ATC building and do some fine editing in Photoshop for some small detail layering, then heading myself in to understanding how to work on After Effects.
    The photograph I have been use as the base are all in ATC building, the idea is to take the image that we always pass through our always ignore in the daily life.

    As a new user to the After Effect many unknow problem comes up, such as the layering system, which  is totally different control if compare with Photoshop. After all, I have done some basic render video contents for one third of this assignment. The idea of the first set of assignment is "weather." Snow, Shower, Fog...etc In the video contents I have combine the basic partial effect to each video and convert them with digital, then my scene is done, very basic but also interesting if keep focus on top of it.
EX: Fog

The second and third video contents are not made by my own but download some open source video and the main idea for these two are abstract and clouds movement, they are really basic idea but once I have change the RGB color from the original video scene, it become something we wont be thinking about.

Finishing Piece
Weather
    In this three shot I have use the weather as the base and continue added some pixels on the side or on the main frame for identify that we this is Art & Technology, we begins with pixels and continue making something greater than just pixels.

Abstract

Cloud

Syphoning Processing

As some of you may know, I recently discovered Processing.  My focus is open up the the Kinect to the Mac side of the house.  OpenNI is kinda hard to access and the official Kinect SDK is Windows only.  There is a build of OpenNI being maintained at structure, though at the time of this post, all of the versions are in beta.

Through developing that workflow, I discovered that you can build Syphon servers rather easily in Processing.  As some of you have discovered syphon servers are another way to bring in content for MadMapper.  The Syphon library is easy to install, and requires only a few lines of code to implement.  An example showing the lines you'll need to add on Github.

I discovered last week that complex Processing sketches with multiple tabs of code, can cause an otherwise working sketch to fail when the Syphon code is added.  After performing a number of face-palms, and shouting a variety of expletives, I discovered that if all the code is in ONE tab, then the syphon server will work as expected.

From what I can tell, when using the sendScreen command, you're essentially sending a copy of the Processing output window to a Syphon server at the same time.  Might be some performance gains if that wasn't the case, but then again, was running this test on a 2014 MacBook Air... not exactly the normal use case for that particular machine.

There is another method that uses a "Canvas" to feed the syphon server, and appears to work with most primitive graphical elements.  The sprites I made were not easy (for my Processing noobie self) to send to a separate PGraphics object.  On the other hand, using this method you can have your sketch only go to the syphon server, which may result in a higher FPS.

All that said, I'd suggest that you build sketches any way you need to, as far as organizing code.  When you're ready to add in the Syphon part, put together a separate version with all the code on one tab.

Looking forward to seeing the work this evening.