How-To: Kinect Gesture Recognition. Atduskgreg/SegmentedPuppet. Greg Borenstein. Gallery - tryplex - the toolkit for collaborative design innovation. Made with tryplex. Austin, University of Texas The Super Mirror is an application of motion-capture technology that uses a Kinect camera to record ballet positions (also called “poses”), capture live motion, and show the difference between the two. The research project was developed in the University of Austin in 2011. Research Team: João Beira, Nattalie Em, Isabel Paiva, Zoe Marquardt and Sebastian Kox (oneseconds/tryplex)Credits -David Justin ( UT Professional Dancer and head departament) and all the dancers for the testing sessions -Luis Revilla (UT, School of Information) Social Sound Gabe Colors Giuseppe Ragazzini Jonathan Hammond oneseconds Casey Scalf vimeo Tyson Parks Muqeem Khan. Digital Puppetry: Tryplex Makes Kinect Skeleton Tracking Easier, for Free, with Quartz Composer. Via the experimentation of the movement+music+visual collective in Ireland, we see another great, free tool built on Apple’s Quartz Composer developer tool.
Tryplex is a set of macro patches, all open source, that makes Kinect skeleton tracking easier. There’s even a puppet tool and skeleton recorder. Aesthetically, the video below is all stick-figure stuff (which is the only reason I can imagine why it’s getting any dislikes on YouTube). But it shouldn’t take much imagination to see the potential here. For one example, see the video at top — something that must make Terry Gilliam get hot and bothered (or wish he had been born later).
Features: Synapse support, for interoperability with other Mac and Windows visual apps and depth image visibilityOSC messagesLoads of examplesPuppet toolSkeleton recording3D sculpting and modeling ideas Have a look: A gallery of goodness: More info on that video at top: