The Light of Day

I think I’ve improved on your methods
KeithHandy posted in Coding, Generative, Pretty Pix on November 15th, 2006

Above: a still from an improved version of my auto-morphing picture-bleeding algorithmic video whatchamacallit thingy. At this point, increasing the picture quality is just a matter of increasing the number of “passes”, so I’m going to concentrate more mental energy on making it more useful.

From the user’s standpoint, the way it works now is linear. You start with a single stream (thread, channel, whatever you want to call it) of video, with some frames missing, and it fills them in. You could start with a very small number of key frames (like in my early tests below), so that it generates the majority of images for a morphing effect; or you could have most of the frames already (as in pre-existing video) with only a few missing frames, and use it as more of a transition effect. In either case, though, as it stands now you start with one list of numbered frames, and it fills in the gaps.

What I want to do next is give it the ability/option to cross-mutate between two or more simultaneous video sources, sort of like an A-B roll but with the middle zone being more of a cross-breed than a crossfade…