Milk, Cookies, and group project ideas

Afew things I forgot to mention in my last post-first, ran into a site- http://www.milkandcookies.com -had some good downloadable movies-I don't think that's where I got the baby from, but all the same-I liked, ok?

And now to the meat of this entry-
Afew ideas for the group project. While I spew these out, it should be kept in mind that I really have very little intention of figuring out how to execute some of them, but I thought they were worth giving a thought all the same.
The first idea has to do with sound input, so is immediately out of the picture. The idea I have is allowing someone to talk into the microphone, and as they talk it creates a file that says which phonetic tone the person is saying, and for which span of time. The idea would be to output it in such a format that something like Lscript could then take up, and shape a 3d mouth accordingly, saving a good deal of time as far as lip syncing is concerned.

The second idea, equally ambitious, and therefore equally as unlikely to do involves taking in a number of pictures, and then creating a photomosaic out of them based on one big picture that's entered. I feel the patch itself wouldn't be overly difficult, taking in a picture and getting the dominant hue, saturation, and chroma-or whatever it takes, and then inputting that into the right place of a grid that was made, that has previously assigned what color is needed where. The difficulty that I see being the worst/hardest/most annoying part is actually inputting the 100 odd files, or even finding them. Certainly "read" just wouldn't suffice. I would only even think of doing this if there was a a way to read in a folder full of files...also, I think there may already be a program out there that does this, so why bother making one in max....still it's an intersting idea, and certainly poses some worthy problems.

I was talking with Glenn and Dylan, about ideas we could do, and we wanted some phyical device to be used. I suggested the Nintendo running pad in some string of jokes, and then we thought about using the DDR pad, a much more feasible idea. We could use it either to control the way a video is viewed, to play some rudimentary (it would have to be rudimentary) game, or really for any sort of input-clearly best if having something to do with the feet and their movement and such. It would work nicely working with those two, cause Glenn could focus on the programming, Dylan on the physical connection, and I could focus on the some of the patch, and making it look pretty and run smoothly. That sort of thing.

I plan on meeting with those two later this week to come up with more ideas, but seeing as to how I'll be in NYC until Sunday afternoon, I thought it would be worth posting my current ideas right now.

That should be it.