Pressure Project 2
Posted: October 1, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »For this project, I wanted to use the makey-makey in order to trigger photos from a webcam to be taken. After a certain number of photos were taken, I wanted them to be displayed on a computer monitor.
I glued a couple of pieces of foil to a piece of cardboard and put a cloth mat over it and ran wires back to the makey makey in order to trigger a space bar press. One of my initial issues was the taking of several photos very quickly when the makey makey was pressed. I used an envelope generator between the keyboard watcher and the capture stage to picture actor in order to make it so one photo at a time was taken.
The next challenge was recalling the file names that had not been created yet. I discovered Isadora did not like referencing files which did not yet exist, so I needed to load in the values after the pictures were taken.
I built a user actor to display each image in a random way and nested it inside of another user actor.
Inside of this actor, I used random value actors in order to randomly generate where the image would appear on the screen. The images would then fly over to the opposite side of the screen.
Ultimately I feel this project gave me a good grasp of manipulating a photo library in Isadora as well as a more sophisticated understanding of some of the logic and math functions.