To mark the launch of the new Asics store in london, an installation was created allowing you to race against other runners and the London Circle Line over 3 races, with times logged into a leaderboard. The main challenge was detecting how far the user had run on a treadmill and feed that into a Flash based app.
To solve this a cunning solution was used, a white stripe was painted onto the treadmill and a webcam was focused onto it. As the camera picked up passes of white and black the Flash app was able to work out the distance the runner had travelled!
This was a very old experiment playing with bitmap caching in Flash. Works by duplicating movieClips and caching results to a bitmap. This technique allows you to give the impression of drawing forever without slow down. After this R&D, I used the code in the Jenson Buttons Design a Helmet app and subsequently the re.drawer experiements.
In-store registering kiosk for Diesel’s XXX party using the re.redrawer app on a live webcam feed. By swiping a RFID wristband, users could pre-register for the party.
Uploaded, a quick test of re.drawer a feed from a web cam. (Yup, you will need a web cam connected to run this example!) Now load’s brushes in which are held loose on the server.
Admittedly its not as high def as the offline version, but it’s a start. Mac Users using iSight may need to change their ‘Settings‘ in the Flash plugin for the file to pick up the right image source. Any feedback welcomed…
