So, my wife is working on an installation piece for a local gallery and got me digging into the concept of Flash web cam motion detection. I really liked the looks of the motion detection script posted over at the Soulwire blog and started tinkering with it. The early results are posted below. Of course it requires web cam access. After allowing it, slowly wave your hand left and right in front of the camera.
The bad thing about web cam motion detection is it really varies wildly according to ambient settings (lighting, background commotion, etc). So if you’re getting bad results, you can use the sliders in the bottom left to try fine tuning the detector’s sensitivity (the top slider adjusts brightness, while the bottom adjusts the minimum area of detection).
Don’t know how useful it might be, but it’s fun to muck around with. And, of course, this nav experiment has nothing to do with the wife’s project, but that’ll come in due time…
HOLY SCHMOKES!!!
DUDE. Do you realize what you’ve just done?
Think handicapped/accessibility.
Those who can only move from their neck up…
Could perform basic navigation with this!
Hi dude,
I’m working with movement detection too, so I would like to know how far did you went with the movement navigation, ’cause I was thinking in go in the same way.
May be we can join on this.
Best regards,
Hi Henrique,
I actually used the motion detection script posted over at the soulwire blog, with very little changes. You can check it out here: http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/flash/actionscript-3/webcam-motion-detection-tracking/
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Hi Devon O. Wolfgang,
I am Shiau Suang, 3rd year student currently taking Design degree program in USM, Malaysia. I am in a very critical stage of doing my final year project.
As I am a design student, I am actually struggling with coding for my project. And here, I hope that you could just lend me some help in flash webcam coding.
I wrote this in hope of asking you to do me a favor on coding part, and I will credit u in return, if u okay with it, as my project will be showing on shopping complexes in Malaysia.
You may reject me, but I would just tell you how simple my project will work. First I just need webcam as a tool to detect motion.
I want to play a movieclip/animation, and when somebody pass by (webcam detect) it changes into other animation.
I sincerely hope that you would lend me a help. Thank you