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I created a tool in Processing that lets me mash up two (or more) videos together. The sketch allows the user to change the interval between the videos and their transparency values, and also keeps track of the changes so the same set of transitions can be played again later.

Here are a few samples:

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/89869267 w=640]

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/89883436 w=640]

Programmatic Control of Surveillance Cameras

I’ve become interested in the idea of generating a film programmatically using pan/tilt/zoom surveillance cameras. To that end I’ve started putting together some processing code that can read a live camera stream and is programmed with a variety of shots (as of now, a zoom, blur, and quick pan). The application can decide what shots to take, and when to make recordings – thereby automating the editing and the shooting process. The code is here on github.

I have two experiments so far. The first finds faces, zooms in, and then makes a recording between 3 and 5 seconds. You can view it here.

The second experiment pans to coordinates based on Perlin noise and then holds a shot based on a sine wave function. In this first video my subjects don’t realize they’re being filmed. In the second video you can see their reactions as I tell them what’s been happening.

Yahoo Questions Answered by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

I wrote a script that attempts to answer recent Yahoo Questions with sentences from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Here are some of the results:

Q: Onion juice in hair what do you think?
A: Often, when there is a reason for you to do something, it is the kind of thing to motivate you to do it.

Q: how are e-ciggs?do you feel better with them than reg.ciggs?
A: The ultimate success of Hollywood blockbusters is dependent upon repeat viewings.

Q: Is there a problem with Yahoo tonight 8:00 EST?
A: Omnipotence is maximal power.

Q: I heard that Daca is qualified for Medicaid?
A: Children are young human beings.

Q: How much friends do you have on facebook?
A: It is common in epistemology to distinguish among three kinds of knowledge.

Q: How do I tell them I don’t want to work for them?
A: Speech acts are a staple of everyday communicative life, but only became a topic of sustained investigation, at least in the English-speaking world, in the middle of the Twentieth Century.

Q: Is Daniel Bryan really stronger and more powerful then Batista?
A: At a broad level, a Creationist is someone who believes in a god who is absolute creator of heaven and earth, out of nothing, by an act of free will.

Q: I’m emotionally numb and i dont know what to do?
A: Human knowledge is expressed in language.

Q: American Ninja movie remake. Will they ever make one?
A: The philosophy of film is a rapidly growing subfield of contemporary philosophy of art.

Q: Would you live in a universe where: skinny jeans, vests, cheap sunglasses, and belly-button tattoos are cool?
A: Time travel has been a staple of science fiction.

Q: Has anyone had bad luck with stuff made in china?
A: Some people appear to be worse off than others partly because they have had bad luck.

Q: Why I cant login to yahoo mail?
A: Fundamental to biology are (1) defining the characteristics of identity, which distinguish individual organisms from those of similar kind, and (2) describing the mechanisms that defend organisms from their predators.

Q: Only can play Minecraft demo?
A: Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem.

Q: how do i delete contact from yahoo that isnt in my contact list on my samsung galaxy s4 that keeps popping up?
A: What is space? What is time? Do they exist independently of the things and processes in them?

Q: Top 10 most famous people alive?
A: Delusions are a symptom of psychiatric disorders such as dementia and schizophrenia, and they also characterize delusional disorders.

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Here’s the code…