Something weird happened to me while designing my instrument. Double click on the movie to play.
As you can see, I have a new camera – the Fire-i Unibrain. The cycling74.com FAQ, written by Jeremy Bernstein, who I also consulted, recommends firewire cameras for live video because USB and DV cameras both compress the video image which must then be decompressed by the computer. This compression/decompression causes significant latency in the image and makes these unsuitable for live video and music.
The Itchy Scratch movie was done using Jean-Marc Pelletier’s cv.jit package. Although the pixels appear to have “flocking” behavior, this is really just a by-product of the blob tracking and the way I’m playing with the “bugs” in it all, if you get my pun.