Project #5 Experiment Camera

Description

name: zijia chen
description: particle camera.
https://particle-camera.glitch.me/

Reflection:

Purpose and usage of my camera:
The invisible particles. It's integrating interactive particles with the camera and let you interact with the partcles virtually with real-world motion.

My original intention was to replace humans in front of the camera as binary codes. However, As I went ahead to realize the idea. I found out that simply putting in small images to replace the human body was too boring. Hence, I went ahead to think about, can I replace human with some small particles and these particles are interactable.

Hence, I went ahead to find some particles example and I found this:

See the Pen Text to particles by Louis Hoebregts (@Mamboleoo) on CodePen.

It looks pretty cool too me. Hence, I went ahead to experiment it and see how can I link it to camera.

I firstly replace human face as particles. However, interacting with my head using mouse wasn't that natural. I move on to fill up my screen with particles then, and use my nose as the mouse to move the particles. Hence, this is my final draft.

Reflection: It's pretty funny to treat the real world motion as a new kind of input into computer. Since in the past, we are treating mainly using mouses and keyboards as the input method.