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Need Direction

in General Discussion  •  Other  •  6 months ago  
Hi there,

I have a few questions. I'm relatively new to processing and I would like a bit more direction from the veterans before proceeding on a final project. I figured it would be easier to have someone quickly point me in the right direction rather than stumble around for 2 weeks trying different things that won't work.

So what I'm looking to do is project interpretations of facebook data around users walking around. Kinda like this  http://www.feeldesain.com/feel/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/facebook-f8-obscure-interactive-design-social-network.jpg

So the current Idea is to use OpenCV to track users from an overhead camera, use a facebook application and an Oauthto pull the data and pull that data in with loadString, then use some custom processing to generate the visuals.

Any tips or places I should look?

Replies(2)

Re: Need Direction

6 months ago
I fail to see the connection between a webcam image and a Facebook application... Unless that's really a facebook application, ie. unrelated to the well known site!

Re: Need Direction

6 months ago
I need the camera for the video feed for OpenCV to track each user, then I can map a visualization of their facebook data to their location, and use an overhead projector to project that visualization on the ground around them.

Edit: I'm writing the facebook app using the GraphAPI that will just ask users for permission to the data and spit it out to an html site that i can use the loadString to pull that data from