Final proposal
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
**under development**
For the ICM final project, I am proposing a dance looping application. I'd like the user to be able to build dance routines on screen using a variety of loops (comprised of gifs in various sequences?). It would be nice if the user could record their creations and view them again at a later time.
I would like to approach the project with a series of steps, similar to the way that the midterm was broken down. The first (and probably easiest) will be to choose a couple of moves that can be used
Expected limitations:
I would think that the primary limitation will be keeping file size low enough to run without complications. I've already run into some problems with running out of Processing memory.
For moves, I'll be starting off pieces of the crank [that]. Crank that Superman, Spiderman, Peter Pan, Lion King, etc.. I'm using this dance because footage of it is plentiful (at least 40,000 youTube videos at the moment) and they are pretty modular dances...i.e. one can have 8 bars of one move, then 8 bars of another,in pretty much any order and they fit together easily. I won't be using any audio.
Below are some moves that
These are just examples of movements that will be abstracted in processing. I don't intend to use these video clips.
Lion King:
Soulja Boy:
Peter Pan:
I've ripped a number of videos and vectorized them to get a sense of the movements.. the next step would be trace them to economize for memory limitations. I would like to abstract the image as much away from the original as possible, while keeping a sense of a body in motion.
posted by Amanda @ 11/06/2007 10:56:00 PM,