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Texture Baking Tutorial from Matthew Kozak on Vimeo.

Great tutorial from Matthew Kozak on utilising Blender’s Bake technique and porting it to Processing.
Source files are available: http://www.screamyguy.net/bakinghowto/index.htm

Brilliant example on setting and controlling a filter’s parameters via MIDI mapping, creating a control surface via a webcam and a torch by Daniele Mattei (Youtube). News via blog.lecollagiste.com

Daniele Comments:

I realised a little Processing sketch that tracks the light blob I shot in front of webcam, normalises X and Y coordinates to MIDI acceptable values, and then sends them to a filter effect in Ableton Live.

I also realised the little control panel that allows to correctly make the MIDI mapping and set some blob detection’s params.

My toolkit:
Processing.org
MIDI: theMidiBus Processing‘s library
blob detection: openCV Processing‘s library
GUI: controlP5 Processing’s library
Ableton Live

Software might be released soon, depending on conditions given from University where Daniele Mattei is undertaking a study.

Mother Reaches 0.6
It’s sure is a sign of an active project where it keeps leaping between each release so quickly, it can be difficult to keep up with it all. As project matures, additional resources and tutorials become available and personally I’ll try to keep readers updated on anything that I cross by.
Massive thanks go as always to Ilias Bergstorm (Lead Developer) and ongoing support involvement from Krzysztof Golinski on the project, developing of Mother has now sped up a bit, hence the increased release frequency!

New Features : Mother 0.6:

• Small mistakes fixed from previous 0.5 release: Waltz synth example was not working, and I failed to mention in the documentation that you also need the Shapetween library to develop new synths. Note: Shapetween is a library for Processing that provides an easy way of animating elements within a sketch in a variety of ways.
• More comprehensive secondary screen support introduced.
• pre(), draw(), post() and dispose() methods are now called properly in synth libraries.
• It is no longer necessary to put an Init() method in sketches intended as Synths for Mother (Finally!).

Download:
As always, you can download the latest version from the Google code repository!

Version 6.0.1 has been added with minor tweaks!
http://code.google.com/p/processing-mother/downloads/list

Mother has reached a new milestone today (0.5) by expanding to OSX and adding processing update to version 1.0.7. Through discussion with Illias previously I have made a suggestion of trying to keep processing libraries in separate folders from Mother.jar that’s so if processing.org makes an update, Mother update could be simply implemented through overwriting some folders. Im very happy that this feature is now implemented and functioning. Thanks Illias!

To Download Mother version 0.5.0, visit from Google code repository and grab your preferred version (PC/OSX).

Onar3D – Triton Leaves – Festival Version – HD from Onar3D on Vimeo.

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If you follow developments around VJ culture and Video Installation practises, Video Mapping practise has become a new Black with nearly everyone having a go at warping and mapping they video textures onto various objects in the space. Effective and brilliant approach. While some vj software have addressed this issue almost right away (eg vvvv, Module8) some other open source projects are taking initial steps in that direction.

Just came across this project called Keystone for Processing

Keystone is a video projection mapping library for Processing. Right now it allows you to warp your Processing sketches onto any flat surface by using corner pin keystoning, regardless of your projector’s position and orientation. The goal is to eventually expand this library to enable more advanced projection mapping, such as projecting on 3D models or curved surfaces and edge blending of multiple projector screens.

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