Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Progress on the Wii-Graffiti project is going smoothly. We're not calling it Wiifitti anymore though, since we decided to remove the wii part from it and instead just do as the L.A.S.E.R. Tag people meant for their software, and use a laser. Only we're adding our own twists to it. Instead of graffiti, we plan on making a sort of large digital, projected, movable coloring book. The general plan is to use two projectors, one for the painting program, and one for an outline that other people can try to color in. It's my hope to see people enjoying this project for the interactivity.
We've decided to call it Novism Graffiti, meaning that it's a way for non-artists and people who don't have the guts to do real graffiti, to try it just the same in a completely harmless, removable way.
Though the software provides easy to understand instructions we are having some setbacks. We have no way to set the camera the way they say we should, so I'm a little worried about how much white the program is going to see and then paint. The tracking settings are hard to do too. Every different lighting scenario causes a different effect on the laser, and it takes time to change the settings to fit that.
Still, I believe we can do this. I'm pretty excited to get this working properly. We got it set up in a really dark room, but the projector was too far away so it couldn't see the red dot of the laser very well. So it didn't produce optimum results. But I think once we're able to set up our own projectors this will work golden.
