Kinect

dbini

Hi Jacques and Lucas and everyone,

In workshops I generally use NIMate to syphon the User ID (colour coded figures) Live View out to Isadora (kinect2 on Mac) - is it possible to do something like this in Processing? - even if the figures are all the same colour, I just need to separate them out from the background in a nice, stable way (for a 3-week always-on installation piece)

cheers,

John

Juriaan

Hi there @dbini,

Why do you want to use processing instead of using Nimate ? It is possible to do this in Processing, but personally I would rather use NiMate then Processing..

dbini

@Juriaan - i'm trying to keep costs down and don't want the bunny logo appearing every 10 minutes.

crystalhorizon

I also would be interested how to get something like the ghost image from NI-Mate from something cheaper or free software

dbini

@crystalhorizon - I had a look at Vuo but at the moment it seems it only supports kinect1.

Skulpture

This may help:

The process should be very similar when using the first kinect (kinect 360).

https://vjskulpture.wordpress....

crystalhorizon

@Skulpture is there the ghost image in the free NI-Mate version? Watermark?

dbini

@crystalhorizon - you can get ghost out of NIMate via Syphon, but the watermark pops up every 10 or 15 minutes if you don't have a license.

crystalhorizon

@dbini I see

Juriaan

Hi there,

Try the follow extension for Max 7. I used it in the past for installation work / performances using the Kinect 2. You can try it for free for a limited time, after that the artist will ask 26,00 euro for continue usage. Max is 9.00 EURO a month, but when you are done with building the max patch you can close the sub for Max since you can build the application and off you go

https://hidale.com/shop/dp-kin...

dp.kinect2 is a plugin, an external extension, for the Cycling ’74 Max development environment to use your Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor (XBox One) on your Windows PC.

Color image, depth, and IR sensor output in many pixel formats
User identification, location, and occlusion
Skeleton joint tracking with orientations
Body properties, hand tracking, lean, body restriction
Point clouds, accelerometer, and gravity
Sound location and strength; speech recognition
Face tracking with pose, rotation, translation, bounding boxes, key 2D and 3D points, smiling, eye engagement, eye open/closed, mouth open/closed, skin/hair color; face 3D modeling with animation/shape units
Data alignment, filtering, smoothing, rotation to gravity
jit.anim.nodedp.kinect and jit.openni to aid in migration
Help file with examples and links to online tutorials and documentation
Support for collections, packages, and executables
Tested against Max 7 and Max 6 for both 32 and 64-bit Windows platforms
Based on official Microsoft Kinect v2 drivers for reliability and support

dbini

@Juriaan - that looks like a good option for Windows users