The Light of Day

Pathetic, that’s what it is
KeithHandy posted in Coding, Generative on December 4th, 2006

Well, I’m back from the hospital (pictured above is an abstract representation of my mental anguish over the last week). Sorry I didn’t write a post to tell you I was going to the emergency room! I don’t know where my priorities were.

My right foot — yes, the same one that was broken a few months back — was pwned by a severe staph infection, probably as a joint result of scratching maniacally and soaking in stale/dirty water. My goal now is to not contract anything new for the rest of December, until my health insurance kicks in. (That’s right, boys and girls, I’m still vulnerable!)

Okay, I did lie about the picture. That’s a still from a follow-up experiement with the auto-morphing code. Although you may get a neat looking frame here and there, by and large cross-breeding between two simultaneous video sources is a failure. For one thing, it takes absolutely forever to run for even a short amount of footage, because it has to analyze two images every time it generates one frame (I left it running for several weeks; it was still going the entire time I was hospitalized!). For another thing, because of the way individual frames are interpreted, very small differences in the input can yield very large differences in the output, so the end result is extremely jumpy.

So the final verdict is that it’s really only ideal for filling in missing frames in a single video sequence. Analyze few, generate many.