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offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 16:13 [#02081183]
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I bought a webcam the other day so I could do some
programming with it.

some screenshots

WebcamFun.zip

If you have a webcam, please download the app and try it
out, and let me know if it works or not.

It's fun. Post some pics!



 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 17:59 [#02081208]
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Boomph. Someone's got to have a webcam. I should mention the
app is for Windows.



 

offline oyvinto on 2007-05-09 18:02 [#02081210]
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doesn't seem too impressive though


 

offline whoami from Dallas/Ft. Worth (United States) on 2007-05-09 18:03 [#02081211]
Points: 269 Status: Regular



ez dis sum dat CP


 

offline whoami from Dallas/Ft. Worth (United States) on 2007-05-09 18:05 [#02081214]
Points: 269 Status: Regular



ok so i launched it and all i get is the mirror image, can
you change effects or what


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 18:09 [#02081217]
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Sorry, you can't change effects yet without recompiling the
app, since I haven't made a user interface yet.

The mirror is the most fun effect anyway, by far.

Post some fugly mutant ogre pics. Why not mirror your penis?
Hey ladies, lets see some 3-boobs like in Total Recall!



 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2007-05-09 18:16 [#02081221]
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:/


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 18:18 [#02081223]
Points: 292 Status: Addict



Absolute fucking rubbish. Get a grip.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 18:20 [#02081226]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular



I eventually want to be able to record videos and put them
into the computer for manipulation (for example to make my
own 'spinning head' instead of finding a gif on google,
though I'm too introverted to use my own head.) Should I get
a 'webcam' then or a camcorder or digital camera that
records videos or what? You should make your own spinning
head with like 256 frames or something- only problem is I
don't know if there's an easy way to make all the frames
into seperate jpgs or whatever. I'm really looking forward
to programming again when I get a computer. Visual animation
is the new IDM. (that way the M and the I and D are
nondescriptive).
What does this program do anyway- like you can make mirror
videos of yourself in real time? (someone posted a link to
youtube or something of someone that did that (played
'catch' with their own arm, etc))()


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 18:21 [#02081227]
Points: 292 Status: Addict | Followup to w M w: #02081226



You're so stupid and have no idea that I wouldn't get too
worked up about "programming" a "webcam"


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 18:23 [#02081228]
Points: 1138 Status: Lurker | Followup to w M w: #02081226



Yes, right now the app mirrors the video in real-time. I've
got it set up so I can do pretty much any effect on the
video. So far I've only coded some simple ones like
pixelate, colour reduce, blur, mirror.

Yeah, it was me who posted that YouTube video. It's what
made me buy a webcam.



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 18:49 [#02081233]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular | Followup to The_Shark: #02081227



One stupid thing I would maybe try recording your face
facing straight ahead in the 'normal' position, then focus
on each part of your face independently. For example your
eyebrow could animate from 'normal' to 'up' back to
'normal'. Make like 5 different animations of the eyebrow
alone that go from normal to some unique eyebrow position
then back to normal.
Then do the same thing for the eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Then
each facial feature could randomly select which animation to
take (possibly speed and other variations too) indepent from
the others. The result might look weird like you're getting
electrocuted in some retarded way (not mirror symmetry
either so one eyebrow would take different random paths than
the other. and since they all return and start from the
'normal' frame, then can fluidly enter any of the other
animations).


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 18:52 [#02081235]
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You really are a boring cunt.


 

offline oyvinto on 2007-05-09 18:52 [#02081236]
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now we're talking


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 18:56 [#02081239]
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Hi. My nhame if frigmund xxx the second dr. alpha turd bath
jr. and I have a doorknox forfth you so pleas aprehension
this so I can knock on it with the nkus of sff michael
jackson britney speakrs hammer time. Thanks.


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 18:58 [#02081241]
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That's be funny if you hadn't been saying the same thing for
6 years.


 

offline Sano on 2007-05-09 19:10 [#02081251]
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You can save each frame to a jpg with virtualdub or with a
video codec like ffdshow.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 19:12 [#02081253]
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Yes, that's be funny. That's also be funny if a
sewing machine could talk! Can you imagine? Here it
is a sewing machine which is very funny in and of itself...
but one that can talk? Never! The idea is so absurd
that I dare say I must go do a poop while contemplating this
very thing! That's be the funniest idea EVER.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 19:21 [#02081256]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular | Followup to Sano: #02081251



Thanks. I have written this information down on one of the
discarded pizza boxes in my pile of rubble, neatly filed
between a dead rat and a banana peel for easy future
reference.


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 19:30 [#02081263]
Points: 292 Status: Addict | Followup to w M w: #02081256



Ho Ho!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 19:32 [#02081266]
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The next time I fart I'm going to think about you.


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 19:34 [#02081267]
Points: 292 Status: Addict | Followup to w M w: #02081266



I guess that's already happened by now then, wank guts.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2007-05-09 19:34 [#02081268]
Points: 9856 Status: Lurker



I have an entire folder of symmetrical faces me and my
friends have done. They're retarded. I'll post a zip maybe.


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 19:35 [#02081269]
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Spare yourself.


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 19:38 [#02081273]
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Yeah, post them. What software did you use to create them?



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 19:42 [#02081274]
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That was classic when I recorded an mp3 of me farting and
you listened to it- twice! I am completely fulfilled in my
life, because technology has allowed me to fart directly in
your ear from such a great distance. Maybe if I type only
with my erect penis, by thinking of your mom giving reverse
birth to you then walking backwards into large spinning
gears with spikes on them, I can give you a sporting chance
in this battle of witlessness.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 19:48 [#02081277]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular | Followup to jkd: #02081273



actually that pixelated one probably looks cool in real
time. Maybe you can record the actual videos instead of
still pictures and put them on youtube or something. Was
making the program access webcam output pretty easy or
complicated?


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 19:56 [#02081279]
Points: 292 Status: Addict | Followup to w M w: #02081274



The farting was far preferable to reading your gobshite
blather.


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-09 20:00 [#02081280]
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It was actually quite difficult and annoying.

First I tried using the WIA (Windows Image Aquisition) API,
which allowed me to grab images from the camera, and was
really easy to get working, but it took 5 seconds to capture
1 frame.

So apparently WIA is only good for taking a single, still,
picture, and I switched to DirectShow. Let me tell you:
DirectShow is ant hell.

As for posting YouTube videos: I haven't added a way to
record the video output of my program yet. I guess I could
use some sort of video capture software but whatever.

Anyway, I think this sort of software toy is fun. I bet
there are lots of people out there who would have fun
playing with it.

I also have a mode where it can overlay an image (with parts
of it cut out), and the video is displayed behind it... so
you can do stuff like that gag on Conan O'Brien. I'm sure there
are people who would love using that to make videos and put
them on YouTube.



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-09 20:05 [#02081281]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular



The soudwaves of the fart were filled with nanobots that are
programmed to enter the inner scalp via the ear and eat hair
follicles, thus making you require more hair plugs.


 

offline whoami from Dallas/Ft. Worth (United States) on 2007-05-09 20:16 [#02081283]
Points: 269 Status: Regular



do a barrel roll.


 

offline The_Shark on 2007-05-09 20:43 [#02081292]
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No they aren't.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2007-05-10 00:07 [#02081328]
Points: 9856 Status: Lurker



here you go


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-05-10 00:42 [#02081329]
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Haha, excellent



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-10 01:11 [#02081333]
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That was great. You tards would obviously have fun with jkds
program so you can see yourself moving in these in real
time.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2007-05-10 01:19 [#02081334]
Points: 9856 Status: Lurker | Followup to w M w: #02081333



give it to me. ill make you a film, personally.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-10 12:53 [#02081575]
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I think that zip is the program in the very first post. I
don't have a webcam though and I guess you need one.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-10 13:00 [#02081577]
Points: 6427 Status: Lurker



yay fun, thanks.


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2007-05-10 13:27 [#02081601]
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harrassing w M w = b7

it's in the FAQ.

bye.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-05-10 13:51 [#02081609]
Points: 21443 Status: Regular | Followup to J198: #02081601



Yeah, only I'm allowed to harrass people. However I'm
not allowed to harrass myself because that would be
'harrasing w M w'. I hope you spelled harrass right because
I just copied it from you.

jkd- maybe if you had 2 webcams you could just record the
monitor with the other. Or maybe the maker of that other
symmetry video has some method better than directshow. But
this stuff is all beyond me.


 

offline freqy on 2007-12-17 11:11 [#02155190]
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hey im looking to buy a webcam ...not to be social or
anything :( just so i can record light onto my computer.

all these companies are lie-ing bastards . saying 60
squillon pixels at 3000 million fps there is no way a usb2
cable can handle that unless with severe compression haha

having said that may i type .. i love Divx it is a modern
marvel and just freaking awesome why do we need any other
form of video comression?!!? i salute them.

best webcam anyone??


 


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