For this project I chose to remix the Nyan Cat Meme, because it has all of the hallmarks of a great meme: annoying soundtrack, a cat and food!
Originally I was going to track the cat in 3D, by tracking four color blobs.
This proved to be very difficult and unreliable (and thus I was not able to present in class), so I resorted to adding a mobile device as a light source back to the webcam.
The patch itself is pretty complicated. Ill brake it down here:
This section of the patch controls when the sound and animation should start and stop. It is connected to the motion detection part
This part of the patch is the standard jit video control using cornerpin
The motion amount example is used to detected when the cat is dancing.
The corner pin object attributes are set by the tracked blob
This section handles the camera input and object tracking
Overall I really enjoyed making the project and look forward to presenting it in class!
Glad you made it work
As you did something quite similar to my project, I am glad to see it working and I know how much trial and error it takes. It looks really good and I like it.
Good work with the tracking. It might be even cooler if you could get the background to be like the real video’s starry sky.
The idea to use the cell phone in the end was really good. Sorry about the point motion tracking not working though. My suggestion would be to perhaps project the video onto the phone – or simply some color paper for the same effect that we saw in class with the face.
I’m impressed with the technic you use.
Nice work.
To make it better, just add the Nyan Cat Music.
I did, its pretty faint but you can hear it if you turn the volume all the way up!