Project #6 Experimental Camera

Description

Grotesque Filter - Grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. As we are going to celebrate our first social distancing Halloween this year and during coronavirus, this camera is to make your day more fun and spookier :)

Design Process

At first, I found the tutorials of the week complicated. I started to watch extra videos both from Slack and YouTube as well as practicing and manipulating the code we learnt in the tutorials. Then I became familiar with the ml5 library and poseNet machine learning model that is designed for human pose estimation. So human poses and the use of different human figures in arts and performance took me to four years ago when I was rehearsing for a postmodern theatrical work, Rhinoceros, and how me and the other performer finally came up with a unique grotesque form of body. By having the Halloween context and the machine learning model, I worked on the camera that can help with making a grotesque background that exaggerates poses.

Reflection

This assignment helped me to get a better understanding of how machines take information from the real world and the processing and analysisbehind them. With getting more into the coding process, I became more familiarwith array function and a kind of inbuilt array that exists behind the scene inall the displays around us. I found manipulating and breaking out the values inthe pixel array interesting, because I think I can use it for my otherassignments, specially Bitmap, to make different environments and expressions.