Painting styles project

Admittedly, I procrastinated a bit on this project knowing how frustrated I would be… plus I just could not get inspired. I didn’t have an Ah-ha! moment or get fixated on one intended goal. Which can usually lead to underdeveloped, weaker projects. With learning coding though, I find that when I stubbornly have a fixated goal that is way above my head in execution, I then give up all means of adaptation and willing to beat the path that can be started by something serendipitous.

So having said that, I did my usual tripped up process coding in C++ using openFrameworks, constantly changing and scaling my goals to meet my results.

The first thing I did was stray a bit from the assignment. I have been wanting to hook up one of my soft-designed sensors to some visuals for awhile. I took the opportunity to do so using the Arduino class for oF.
All that needs to be done is load standardFirmata onto your Arduino board (if using 0017 and higher). On the oF side, open up the firmata example and edit the bold bit in this line >>
ard.connect(”/dev/ttyUSB0“, 57600);
by plugging in your own boards serial port.
Build and follow the pic to set up your breadboard and arduino for the initial test.

I was able to get an example from class working with a soft sphere sensor. By squishing the sensor, I was able to cause displacement of m pixels taken from my web cam.

As far as the assignment went, I decided to attempt to grab from live video and use some of Francis Bacon’s and Gilles words and ideas of multiplicity and collage and capture over time. The lines provide a nice screen of which the captures over time can mesh with one another. Another goal of mine that came up was to have the lines born from 0 on the y axis and travel down in an automated fashion by the press of a key, and then with the drag of the mouse deposit lines across the x axis as they grow towards the bottom. You can either let them hit the bottom or click to stop them where you want and start a new batch of them.
I have not been able to get an animation of lines the same way I was able to while using the video class. Even when I out them in draw( ), the behavior is different. I plan on getting answers, so check back or message me if you are curious as to why.