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I should really have been studying GLSL shaders today, but I thought I’d put together a quick ActionScript animation for Christmas Day – it’s only ActionScript – should take me an hour or two, tops… Six hours later I finished this. I really am dreadful at estimating durations =P

Anyways, I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to my Mum & Dad and everyone in my family, my beautiful wife and the wonderful kids I get to share time with, my friends in the UK and the AU, and everyone who’s been a part of my life and helped to make me the person I am today.

My love to you all & best wishes for the future,
r3dux

Source code, for those who want it, can be found: here

Credits:
- I took the snowflake shapes from here: http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/libraries/curriculum-library/die-cut-ideas/snowflakes/ and cut them out & lightly processed them with the GIMP, and
- I took the background from here: http://snow-village-3d-screensaver.smartcode.com/screenshot.html.

The Kinect has really fired people’s imaginations and there’s some great work happening right now – I can’t wait until I become a part of it =D

1.) The OpenNI library working with the Kinect to perform skeletal mapping:

2.) Using gestures and voice commands to navigate medical imagery:

3.) Apparently Microsoft are working on modifying the Kinect to quadruple its 3D sensing (structured light camera) accuracy from 320×200 to 640×480, at which point it will be able to detect fingers and other small features: ms-quadrupling-kinect-accuracy [eurogamer].

I posted something about Japanese people going to see virtual hologram popstars the other day, and now someone’s working on doing a kinect dance-game version – it’s mighty impressive…

That’s some really great skeletal mapping work!

Okay – third and final part… I saw a video, I wanted to recreate the effect they used, and now I have, on a live, real-time-processed webcam stream using C++, OpenCV and OpenGL. Yay! =D

Full source code after the jump =D

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