Videos from Junior ...

[slippy]

ZOMFG !!!!

Dudes - you have to watch these videos ... they're incredibly awesome ...
I couldn't have done it better 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UeOdqjB_7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gw9VE16mo

... and if you've kids ...

this one is awesome, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiNUkDnDMFA

Have fun ... and don't try this at home ...

[Shockwave]

Cool stuff!

If there was a way of editing out the background of some of these videos and flatshading the breakdancers these images would look awesome in a newschool demo.

[slippy]

Hey,

yeah ... you're right shocky ... that'll be a cool idea for some newschool stuff ...

look what I found ... after short googl-ing

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-664835-breakdancers-handstand.html

... perhaps there's more stuff like this available ^^

[Shockwave]

Probably lots of stuff like that around.

This reminds me that when I went to see Tetra, he told me about a program he wrote that could detect what parts of a live video image had changed from frame to frame.

I'd bet that if we had video of someone breakdancing over a static backdrop (not a crowd moving around) that it could be done.

[slippy]

Oki ...

just found something very interesting to shockys idea ...

http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/search.php?subjectnumber=85

there're a whole bunch of motion capture files ... perhaps this could be used in some kind of demo stuff ??! Although I don't know how it could be realized ... anyway

[Pixel_Outlaw]

What mannor of craft is this that a man of color may float above the ground stopping only briefly to push upward?

[Shockwave]

What mannor of craft is this that a man of color may float above the ground stopping only briefly to push upward?

Fucking amazing is what.

Oki ...

just found something very interesting to shockys idea ...

http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/search.php?subjectnumber=85

there're a whole bunch of motion capture files ... perhaps this could be used in some kind of demo stuff ??! Although I don't know how it could be realized ... anyway

Thats the same kind of thing I thought, Tetra's method was using a neural net to do it I think to actually get the complete flat shaded oputline of the person.
It's beyond my capabilities though. Maybe someone cleverer could have a crack at it.