Author Topic: [REDUCED RES] LowRes Cam (Read 10483 times)

benny! · « **on:** August 28, 2008 »

Hi all,

here is my little entry for this cool and inspiring competition called:

LOWRES CAM.

About

It streams the webcam picture of a resolution of 160x120 pixels
and transforms them into only four colors. The four colors are:

0x00000000 / 0x00006600 / 0x0000AA00 / 0x0000FF00

So, I hope this entry matches both limitation of this contest

The actual screen dimension is the camera resolution (160x120) multiplied
by 4 (=640*480). That means that each "pixel" has a width and height of
4. The app requires a webcam to run (hope the majority of you has one
- I may supply a video for ppl without a webcam).

Before I touched the flash platform I did play with several other techniques
like Java Media Framework, Processing and avicap32.dll using some WinAPI.
However, I must say using FLASH makes it pure fun to access the webcam
and play with it.

Credits

Pure ActionScript3.0 code by benny!weltenkonstrukteur.de
Music by Andrew Potterton

Ok ... I attached some screenshots - have fun!!!

Rbz · « **Reply #1 on:** August 29, 2008 »

hmm, I don't have a webcam here...
But it looks really nice, great idea too

Voltage · « **Reply #2 on:** August 29, 2008 »

Nice use of technology Benny. I really like this.

benny! · « **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2008 »

@Voltage:
Yeah - cool that you posted a screenshot.

@all:
Feel free to add more screenshots ;-)

@rbz:
I am sorry to hear that - I'll try to make a little video of
it ...

Shockwave · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2008 »

Really original thinking here Benny

I don't have a web cam either but I really appreciate the originality of this entry. Seriously brilliant thinking here. Well done! Another strong contender for the prize I think

benny! · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2008 »

Thanks, Shocky.

I must say that I expected that more ppl here own a webcam. I
didn't bought one either - but it was implemented in my laptop.

I already made a little video already - just need a little tool to
convert an uncompressed AVI file into a proper format to upload
it to youtube. When it is town I'll post it.

gooner · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2008 »

No webcam here either Benny so looking forward to the video mate.

Love the concept of what you've done and the thought process you went through to do this.Excellent music as well.Well Done mate

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2008 »

It reminds me a bit of the nightvision goggles I used.

Very cool!

benny! · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2008 »

@Gooner & PO:
Thanks guys.

@all:
For all you havent the chance to test it - here is a little (~30secs)
capture of the programm in action:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/-B4W5UADRW8[/youtube]

Shockwave · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2008 »

Peace to you too mate

Xalthorn · « **Reply #10 on:** August 30, 2008 »

Looks fun, but I don't have a cam to try it

Shockwave · « **Reply #11 on:** August 30, 2008 »

Quote from: Xalthorn on August 30, 2008

Looks fun, but I don't have a cam to try it

Benny posted a youtube video of it working above ^^

Xalthorn · « **Reply #12 on:** August 30, 2008 »

I know, and it also has a scrolltext (paper moving across the screen qualifies, right?) but it would be so much more fun to try myself

benny! · « **Reply #13 on:** August 30, 2008 »

Yeah. Maybe you have a digital cam which can be used
as a webcam

Did some more research and I am still playing with the
webcam + flash capabilities. Some nice things are pos-
sible with it. Even some EYE-TOY like games.

Wonder how much percentage of the users here have a
webcam ?

Xalthorn · « **Reply #14 on:** August 30, 2008 »

I would guess a high proportion have one, it's just not something I've looked into getting. I might now though

hellfire · « **Reply #15 on:** August 31, 2008 »

I very much like the interactive nature of your entry, but what I like the most is, while all the others tried to get "more" out of the limitations, you used it as a lo-fi stylize-filter. cool!

Praecor · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2008 »

Yay, I left watching benny!'s entry last this time, because in PLANTLIFE I checked it out first (and it rocked).

And this was a nice surprise again, he's discovering areas no-one else even had in mind.

Webcam stuff. Really interesting to play around with the possibilities it opens surely. I recall Carmack also said
in his blog once that he thinks webcams have some cool potential that's just yet to be revealed.

I must find my webcam, I know it's somewhere.

10/10 for uniqueness (it's great ppl try something new)

EDIT : found crappy webcam, adding few screenies:

benny! · « **Reply #17 on:** September 01, 2008 »

@hellfire & praecor:

Thanks a lot for the kinds words. Glad you like it!

Praecor · « **Reply #18 on:** September 02, 2008 »

Added some webcam screenies to my last reply. This thing is just cool!!

Good work.

benny! · « **Reply #19 on:** September 02, 2008 »

@Praecor:

ROFL ... that's pretty cool

. Where do you get all this cartoon
stuff from ??

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