Travelling around

Processing sketch made on the train journey between London and Newcastle and Newcastle and London.
Its an attempt of recording a journey, or at least a part of it.

On the way to Newcastle the program grab a web cam input pointed at the landscape, then squeeze the camera frame to 1 pixel wide and rotate it through time. On the way back i actually grab only the first vertical line of pixel and apply the same transformations as previouslly. This was to get rid of a moire effect that happend on the first version... it didn't really work in the end and i had to overlap each frames to get a smoother scanning result.

Well, it was fun and entertaining coding on the train and looking at people around tring to figure out what the hell i was doing pointing that camera at the window all the time.

in the end it looked as i wanted, a bit like truck's speed recording graph.

Similar programms have probably been written in the past, and i'd be happy to hear about any related process as i intend to explore those area a bit more.

11 photos | 256 views

items are from 11 Mar 2007.