5 posts tagged “installation”
This stunt is up & running in this year's FILE in Sao Paulo.
note you need a webcam for it to work.
it's a web-based version of a larger install; the sketch is there, but there are details that are too much for flash... the facial expression recognition slows things down to a sixth of the speed... also note it's only 320x240... on linux i can do 800x600 at 60 fps, but in browser on decent machine i get about 15 fps w/ 320x240, and about 2-5 fps w/ 640x480.
the real magic is someone porting the haars stuff from opencv to flash.
maniac !
i'd like to trick this out more & install a few other places.
It's a video deposition/complaint/feedback/confession/booth. The complaint was slow video framerate.
after testing device & network throughput with VNC & streaming, we fixed it by UNINSTALLING the webcam drivers.
it was some fancy new thing, and wasn't allowing us to explicitly set the resolution at a driver level.
so we removed the driver, and the most basic windows driver did a 320x240 stream.
then we installed a different/older driver for the same camera, and got it up closer to 640x480 at at least 25 fps.
problem solved.
what amateurs put this thing together ? ? so goofy and complicated: mac mini running xp two cpu when only one needed single Linux box more reliable and cheaper... furthermore, they developed on quad core with firewire; and installed with two seperate mac & pcs both running xp & vista with a webcam. They obviously didn't leave time to debug on-site, after changing platforms for install.
and did i mention it's in windows ?
Amateurs !!
heaven forbid they were paid.
so i'm apparently showing here
they have my piece from new orleans on the books - but i'd rather do 'face invader' - refined version of what i showed last year @ mvmt's 'echo' event.
so i may switch it up, some mix of both. or this new thing i thought of last night called 'oracle' - which cracks me up whenever i think about it, so i should probably do that.
mason dixon & rest of mgfest are so dedicated... very happy to support them.
banksy's latest installation is hilarious. my fav is the swimming fish sticks at :30
systems functional.
one last step...
