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I go to Parsons School of Design in NYC.  I am a senior undergrad.  Since I was a sophomore, I wanted to get into a toy design class, but my prerequisites always got in the way.  Finally, in my second to last semester, I got in – and it’s a little disappointing.  Instead of a design class, we’re making toys with no precedence, and no deliberate design (and for the majority of the class, with none of the necessary skills).  For each of the assignments, I haven’t exactly been following our strict, and somewhat off the cuff guidelines.  This thing is what I ended up making for my plush toy assignment.  Instead of a toy, I decided to make an article of clothing!  Monster Hoody Jeffery.

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I’m usually really good about Halloween, but this year I have been a little busy to plan and construct anything crazy.  My roommate asked me if I could sew her something, a Peter Pan costume – one that wasn’t a ‘sexy Peter Pan’, just a regular one.  Last night I did, and even though I forgot to bring her measurements, it fit!  I’ll put up a pic of whatever I will be for Halloween when it happens.  Check after the break for a  few pictures of the costume.

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Just a quick thing to put up: a simple webcam visualizer written in open frameworks called Invariable.  It was created for a college event I ended up disk jockeying (which I am told is very high school of me).  We needed something cool on the projector!

So what is it doing?  It grabs video and employs differencing on each color channel, and if the pixel’s change is over whatever threshold I’ve set, it shows up as a pure color from whatever channel.  I’m pretty bad at describing this sort of thing…  Let me try again.  Imagine, you are a pixel.  Not a whole pixel, but just the red part of a pixel (so if you and blue where hanging out the pixel would be purple).  Now let’s say that the camera isn’t picking up red at all, you won’t have to be too bright, let’s say around 40.  But all of a sudden red shows up, about 200′s worth!  Now, because of the visualizer, you won’t turn 200, you’ll be 255!  SUPER BRIGHT!  PURE RED!  Other colors on the same pixel can do this, because the process is worked out per channel, so mixes can show up, allowing for cardinal colors, and black or white.

The thing looks pretty cool, so check the break for a video and a download link!

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