Peers depoloyed around Gund Hall

Peer display test

Seperated views of 4 cameras (above) - Composite, full screen view (below)

A plan of the porticos area where the cameras swill be depolyed is overlayed.

I would like to make the plan more useful and highlight a camera's position when it detects motion.

Isolating motion in a live feed

I have been trying to figure out how to isolate moving objects within a camera's vision before I overlay multiple camera feeds. This is to avoid overlaying static objects that aren't interesting.

I would like to color the captured motion with solid colors (diferent colors representing a different camera would be ideal)... not sure why its coming out the way it is right now.

happy weekend!

Arranging Peers

Testing motion detection with a consistent backdrop

This is a test with activating cameras when motion is detected.

The cameras are pointed at a "stage" that has stationary objects already on it. When a toy car rolls through the stage, each camera is activated. I have circled each camera whenever its capturing data, and its input can be seen in the lower screen.

The lower screen would be shown in a display coupled with each camera, and the cameras could be pointed in different directions, or lined up along a track. Pointing cameras at the same object produces an interesting overlap effect - but only when there's a stage or a consistent backdrop, like the one in this test video, so maybe I should incorporate that into the machine.

Allow the flash app below to access your webcam and mic. When there is enough sound, the webcam video will pop up and dissappear when it gets quiet again. A slight thump on your laptop will do the trick.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/users/akhawaja/demo1.swf

Arranging the analog

Different Objects in different spaces vs. same spaces

One object in a space vs. different objects in the same space

Diagramming the analaog

The combination of a camera and a screen is defined in this diagram as a peer.

The camera sends data and the screens receive.

A network of peers in this swarm share the only the movement that is detected by any peer.

Abstracting BitTorrent: Segmentation and Reproduction - precedents

Into The Swarm: sending & recieving between peers

BitTorrent narrative (revised)

BitTorrent narrative

A "swarm" is a group of computers sharing the same file (whether or not some of them have a complete version of it).

The .torrent file is what identifies this group of computers from which you can download/share data blocks.

A "block" is a portion of the file being shared.

Here is the first attempt at this narrative:

...which doesn't express much besides the limitless connections that can

be made over BitTorrent

Generations of file segmentation spread around the world

File segmentation with corresponding geographic mapping