Archive for March, 2007

Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3

It’s aliiiiive! Finally got it sorted. After a little more fiddling, I have linked the paddles to the movement of each hand (and reversed the image so your right hand controls the right paddle etc) and added a moving ball. **Edit** – click here for webcam pong! You need a webcam and flash player 9. The Related posts:

  1. First Flex 2 App – Webcam motion tracking
  2. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 2
  3. Coldfusion returntype behaviour in flex
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Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 2

  • March 5th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

Woohoo! I have the motion tracking working properly now. I spent ages mucking about with tiles and looping over individual pixels, then ages more trying to understand matrixes and convolution filters. I finally came up with a method where I apply what is basically a blur filter to the snapshot to remove Related posts:

  1. First Flex 2 App – Webcam motion tracking
  2. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3
  3. Flex 5 day Course – Day 1
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First Flex 2 App – Webcam motion tracking

  • March 4th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

This is my first exploration into flex. To build the pong game I wanted to make this was the first thing I had to get right. I have copied the ideas and methods from a couple of tutorials I found – specifically the motion tracking tutorial by Guy Watson for flash8, and another Related posts:

  1. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 2
  2. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3
  3. Flex 5 day Course – Day 1
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Flex 5 day course

  • March 4th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

I was, as you can see below, intending to write a summary of each day at the course. However I had a business meeting tuesday evening till late, then every night after that I got too caught up in playing with flex to do any blogging The course was great – we learned Related posts:

  1. Flex 5 day Course – Day 1
  2. Flex Data Services on OSX
  3. Flex goes open source!
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