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Color Our Life

Yue Mao

Projektmodul 'Zeitmaschinen'

Concept

Please look around, you may find something interesting about color. When you looking around in a kindergarten, it might be quite colorful. Children's color are bright and pure. However, as you grow up, the color of your clothes become darker and singler. And this regulation is related to our emotion more or less. Normally, a child live a life happily like the bright color it wearing. When one grow up, the emotion becomes much complex. And he may learns to hide himself with the help of the color. All in all, happiness is our lifetime pursuit. So, why not color our life? Start with the wearing color.

Step one---Color tracking

Step two---Music & Text output

Place to install---Undergrounds

Research

In order to see the effect on averaged colors,I use PS to imitate the procedure calculated by processing.

But,the result is not the same as I imagine as beginning.After mixing the colors all through one's body, almost everybody's color become grey, no matter how colorful he or she wear. This is because that the more kinds of color being mixed, the lower brightness it will become. So "RGB" is not the best way of translating colors into values.

So, I suppose "HSB" mode is much reasonable. "H":Hue "S":Saturation "B":Brightness

Reference

useful links: http://www.learningprocessing.com/

Solution

Software: Processing
Hardware: Infrared camera

Prototype

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72SKYKd-Omk&list=HL1328233638&feature=mh_lolz

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 *Step two---Music & Text output
-. Assign each color value to a single music tone,such as Do Re Mi. Then the passersby will get a different experience when the infrared camera sense his xsit. The darker you wear, the lower you will hear.
+[[File:step2_1.jpg|200px]]
-. More over, some sentences related to the brightness and the saturation of the color can be seen on the screen. The content will combine a visualized color and a abstract motion.
+[[File:step2_2.jpg|200px]]