Let there be Lips

A little background: I love Rocky Horror Picture Show. In the beginning of the movie, a pair of lips sings the first song in darkness. I wanted to replicate this effect with karaoke lyrics and/or the actual lips, but I…

Kinect’s Gone Nuclear

For our assignment this week, Melissa Dela Merced and I decided to do a variation on #9 of my skeleton tracking ideas. It’s not quite as fancy as my description, but it’s a good start. Nuclear Kinect from Melissa A….

Skeleton Tracking

For Computational Cameras, we are supposed to come up with 10 ideas for skeleton tracking using the Kinect. These are the ideas I came up with. 1) 2-person horse costume – apparently this requires 2 Kinects 🙁 2) controlling a…

Kinect Arsonist

Our first assignment for Computational Cameras was to alter the code of a hand tracking program for the Kinect. The Kinect was initially designed as a gaming device, so I found myself reminiscing about my gaming days and the many…