Choreography of Kinetic Artwork Via Video

摘要

A software environment for kinetic artwork choreography, employing video as the controlling data stream, and conveniently allowing fine-grained manipulation of motors, lights, and other diverse artwork elements. Choreography video may derive from a file, camera, network, streaming screen capture, etc. Using the latter functionality, choreographies may be created interactively using standard, user-familiar, video/animation creation tools, thereby providing a rich graphical interface and many WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) elements. Mappings from video frame pixel content to particular outputs such as color, rotation angle, artwork device element identifier, etc., are configured through flexible templates and configuration files.

主权项

1. A system for kinetic artwork choreography, where at least one element of the artwork has physical motion that may be choreographed, and comprising:
a) one or more computers; b) one or more templates that select the manner in which pixel data within a video stream is to be interpreted during its conversion into one or more data streams appropriate for direct device control; c) code to convert said pixel data into said data streams as specified by said templates; d) code to forward said data streams to one or more items from the following set:
i) kinetic artwork;ii) data storage device.iii) Network; LAN, WAN, or Internet.