Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
19 December 2011
17 December 2011
08 December 2011
07 December 2011
03 December 2011
Editing with Meshlab
>> Default background (Orchid +Black)
>> Post- background color replacements
Elena Marchenko+ Yuri Endo 2011
While editing mesh images captured with RGBDemo in Meshlab, we discovered several ways to change background colors, vertex shapes and sizes among many other functions.
02 December 2011
Prototype box 004 (w/ printing paper)
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
We used a sheet of white printing paper as a defuser to avoid the reflection from the mirror. The test result turned out favorably. The main screen should be more sandblasted.
Prototype box 004
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
*Custom made acrylic box + acrylic mirrors @ 6,6000 KRW
We replaced sandblasted acrylic sheets to clear acrylic sheets for the front screens. Upon our test projection, we found out it completely reflected the images of projectors through mirrors. The design needs to be further refined.
29 November 2011
28 November 2011
22 November 2011
21 November 2011
Prototype box 003 (w/ tracing paper)
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
The reflection is less harsh when the tracing papers are placed on both sides.
Location options (Revised)
>>Long escalator<<
>>Commercial street<<
>>Market<<
>>Riverside<<
Yuri Endo 2011
According to our test results, we revised our location options.
20 November 2011
Kinect out post-production tests
We have tested various post-production options with our test footages.
19 November 2011
Notes from Kinect out
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo 2011
Tested locations:
-Supermarket
-Commercial street
-Subway corridor
-River side
-Night street
Suitable:
-Populous environment (crowded streets)
-Relatively closed environment ( both indoors and outdoors)
-High camera angle
-cocoaKinect
-RGB viewer
Unsuitable:
-Night shoot ( with limited light source)
-Water ( if not with cocoaKinect IR mode)
-Under bright sunshine
-Processing
-RGB reconstruction
-Brekel
Kinect out test 003
CocoaKinect>>Video+Depth>>Normals, Video (vs Depth)
CocoaKinect>>Video+Depth>>Normals
Elena Marchenko+Yuri Endo 2011
Kinect out test 002
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo 2011
Our second try-out of the day at a subway corridor.
Kinect out test 001
We tried our first outside shoot with Kinect at the local supermarket, Kim's club. The shooting went surprisingly smoother than we had initially expected, however the result turned out to be less dramatic than we wanted it to be as Kinect was evidently only capable of capturing the objects within approx. 1/2m-10m in distance.
Above movies were entirely captured with the realtime screen recording and video compression application, ishowU HD Pro
Kinect out
Elena Marchenko+Yuri Endo 2011
We placed 2 batteries, a inverter and a laptop on the kickboard for our outside shoot. Although we spent half a day to test shoot, the first battery did not even run out.
18 November 2011
Prototype box 002
Front 
Back
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
* Custom made acrylic box @ 22,000 KRW
*Special thanks to Dahye Park
We would further have to figure out how we can get rid of the reflection casted from left side image onto the right side as well as the size of the actual box.
17 November 2011
New kids on the block
Yuri Endo 2011
*BX40L @ 48,000 KRW×4
*Special thanks to Dahye Park
This car battery and power inverter will be our friends for the outside shooting. ( Although the description says the battery weights 9.9 kg a piece, it feels like more when traveling. Apparently it would last for about 52 minutes.)
Bunny mask
www.maskmall.co.kr
*@ 4500 KRW×10
After weeks of searching, we have finally found an adequate bunny mask to put on for our character.
16 November 2011
Bunny Chasing
Our short movie would mainly consist of point of view sequences of a person who is chasing a character in a bunny mask.
15 November 2011
Prototype box 001
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011
Eventually, the second projector would be also placed on the left side in the same manner to make simultaneous 2 image projection come true.
Kinect MOV projection set up
Projection idea by David Hall
Our movie would be project on to an acrylic box ( 2 sides) as in the drawing above.
14 November 2011
Processing + Cinema 4D
Yuri Endo 2011
I have tried another scanning technique that we learned from the music video for Catalina by Moullinex.
05 November 2011
Brekel, at last
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo 2011
My teammate and I are currently trying out as many Kinect hack apps as possible to get the " look" we are looking for our movie as we shifted our mission to mix 3D scanned images with moving imagery.
Up until last week, we had been straggling for a while to get Brekel to work in our Mac OSX 10.6.8 by using VMware Fusion , little we knew that this virtual machine does not recognize Brekel ( apparently, it perfectly works via Boot Camp, however we decided not to push it further since we both have such limited trouble shooting skills when it comes to tech issues.) and we also were using wrong version of Windows, XP ( Supposedly it works well with Windows 7)
In conclusion, we have finally succeeded in putting an end to the nightmarish struggle simply by using a friend's Windows 7 computer. Compared to RGB demo, scanning time was significantly shorter and able to capture cleaner images. Most conveniently its obj. data can be exported straight to Maya.
01 November 2011
Midterm presentation
Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo 2011
Due to technical difficulties, our live 3D scan demonstration with RGB Demo app turn into a video screening.
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