Ferns Library by CVLab

This is a new app made by the wonderful Theo Watson.  He originally posted this in this openFrameworks forum where he also linked to the openFrameworks addon he made for it.

much more after the break

Here is some more FERNS stuff.  It is unclear to me which ones of these are FERNS and which ones are  are BazAR.  But one thing is for sure – these CVLAB people know their shit.

Real-time surface detection

3-D Surface Modeling

SURF:  Speeded Up Robust Features

PTAM

TV of Tomorrow is finally over.  Overall, the experience was okay.  We didn’t meet anyone who was interested in our project, and the entire festival (our presentation included) was plagued with technical difficulties leading to extremely poor image quality from the projectors.

I was very excited to find out yesterday that I was accepted to the Minneapolis Art On Wheels residency program.  So from May 17th to June 6th, I will be up in The City of Lakes (? – no good nicknames).  Phun Phact:  Minnesota is known on its license plates as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but Minnesota actually has 12,000 lakes.  Unfortunately, class at Bennington doesn’t end until May 24 — not sure how this one got by me, but I will make it work somehow.

Immediately before that, from May 14th-16th, I will be traveling to my home town, Baltimore, to the Megalopolis Audio Festival.  I will be presenting Crowded.

The torch video is kind of crashing and burning at the moment.  We got a few good contributions from some awesome people out there (post one and post two), but unfortunately it just wasn’t enough.  We are thinking about scrapping the whole idea and using clips from famous “running” scenes in movies instead of the crowdsourced videos.  Shame.

Oberlin, oh coordinates 41.2751, -82.1782

Reno, NV, Coordinates. 39°31′38″N 119°49′19″W (shot by Joe Delappe)

by Marina Zurkow

by Travis Janssen and Alex Lopez
37.726418°N, 89.22027°W (Carbondale, Illinois)

More after the break.

Lat: 51.43346414054374 Long: -0.5098342895507812

india, tamilnadu, trichy

Daytona Beach – 29° 11′ N 81° 3′ W

Chakdaha,INDIA – 23°05′N 88°31′E / 23.08°N 88.52°E

Latitude: 17.41 N Longitude: 78.56 E

RANAGHAT, INDIA ( 23°11′N 88°35′E / 23.18°N 88.58°E )

I started what will eventually be a private YouTube at tv.urbart.com using PandaStream.  This site is currently just PHP and JavaScript.  There is now a fully-javascript Panda example where the Rails Pandastream github used to be.  Feel free to upload a video!  And for all 4 of you reading this, if you want to be part of it when I eventually password protect it, please email me and let me know.

This week was the first Web as Platform class at Bennington, where I am the computing faculty.  I realized at some point in planning that I couldn’t do both PHP and JavaScript in one term.  Although I think that JavaScript has more long-term usefulness than PHP, and is a much cooler language in general, after some serious thinking, I decided on going with PHP.  I couldn’t figure out an easy enough way of getting around the database problem.  I looked at a few solutions, like CouchDB, which is seriously cool, but

I also signed up for Dropbox, which seems very cool, but I haven’t really used it yet.

I’ve decided that I am going to make an openFrameworks addon for the Echonest API for my Laborers of Love project. What is Echonest?

1. An API that powers great recommendations for your users by understanding every song, review and news article on your music site.
2. Upload any song and receive an XML ‘musical score’ detailing tempo, beats, time signature, song sections, timbre, key, and other musical attributes.
3. Your users want more than a static artist page. Connect them to everything on the web and become their first source for all things music.

It’s feature #2 that is particularly interesting to me and I think it will make a nice little OF addon.  Unless someone has already done it…  I haven’t looked into it yet.

At the end of the month, I will be going to Troy to give some talks at RPI as part of a collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) that sits on RPI’s campus.  The talks are 2 hours long!  One at an animation class, and one at a web design class, I think.  I will be talking about mostly my installations, and getting into some of the technical stuff behind what makes them work.

As I type, I am sitting in JFK, waiting for my delayed flight to San Francisco for the TV of Tomorrow conference.  This week, Aaron and I have been working on our presentation for the conference, but with all of the other stuff going on, we didn’t get very far, and we are going to have to do the bulk of the work in SF.

I am pretty much done gathering material for Episode 2 of Crowded, and Episode 1 is also dangerously close to being released.  It’s about fucking time!

As part of the Mixer:Olympiad, we have been collecting videos of people carrying the “torch”.  From the site:

Eyebeam is running a torch relay as part of opening ceremony for MIXER: OLYMPIAD, and we want you to carry the torch for a leg of it!

To be exact, we want you to download the PDF file attached below and print it out with a color printer, attach it to something torch-like (a stick, handle, pole), and make a video of yourself running with it. If you don’t have a color printer, try to get something close to the same color. Your video should be no longer than 1 minute. The video should start with you entering the frame from the left, and end with you handing off the torch to an unseen person out of the frame to the right. This is important because we will edit the videos together so that the relay (handing off the torch) looks more or less continuous. But beyond that, it’s pretty much up to you what you do.

If you want to be part of the video, you can either submit it using this form, or find the task at Mechanical Turk and get paid for it!

I applied for MAW residency with a new idea that I am pretty excited about, and started on Harvestworks New Works application. The pressure is on to find something to do after Eyebeam, so wish me luck!

Finally, I started playing with MIDI in Ableton Live, which is tons of fun.  Look forward to some Hall & Oates remixes soon.

This will make you LOL.

In non-geeky news, I also made it back to Topman this week to buy some clothes for my SF trip, and it is really a great store.  The clothes there just fit so much better than any other comparably priced stuff in other stores.  Highly recommended.

Spring 2010: http://prof.crouse.cc/web_as_platform/spring_2010

Google’s announcement of the Chrome OS provided a definite time line for what has been on the horizon for some time: web-based personal computing. With this radical change in the way we think about personal computing, languages once thought of as too rudimentary for “serious” application programming (namely JavaScript) are becoming more important. This class will look at the nuts and bolts of Web Application Development, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, as well as the implications of viewing the web as a platform. We will look at the current landscape of web apps and services, including Mechanical Turk, Amazon S3, Facebook, and Google Maps, and learn to use these services in our own work. We will cover many popular libraries, such as JQuery, Blueprint CSS, and the Google Web Toolkit and App Engine. This class is for students who wish to learn the basics of how to make functional web applications. The class will start with a 2 week HTML/CSS intensive review, so students with no HTML/CSS experience should expect some extra work.

Most of this stuff comes from the find_obj.cpp file that comes as an example with OpenCV.  But now I am digging into the locatePlanarObject() stuff that yaya from the openFrameworks forum wrote that uses cvFindHomography().  The idea is that the red square represents the plane that the identified object lies on.  But I can’t seem to stabilize the red square.

To be exact, we want you to print out the attached PDF with a color printer, attach it to something torch-like (a stick, handle, pole), and make a video of yourself running with it. If you don’t have a color printer, try to get something close to the same color. Your video should be no longer than 1 minute. The video should start with you entering the frame from the left, and end with you handing off the torch to an unseen person out of the frame to the right. This is important because we will edit the videos together so that the relay (handing off the torch) looks more or less continuous. But beyond that, it’s pretty much up to you what you do. The crazier the better.

Oh, and we also need your location (latitude and longitude). We will connect all of the videos together, superimpose animated GIFs of fire onto your torch, and animate the torch route onto a map of the world (think Indiana Jones). The video will culminate in a torch lighting ceremony at MIXER: OLYMPIAD on March 12.

The goal is to have some geographic diversity here, so the further you are from NY, the better. If you have any friends in far-off places that might be interested, please pass this along to them. Right now we are just looking for a head count if people who might be interested. We can provide a very small materials budget if you need it (I’m talking like $10-$20).

Of course, everyone who makes a video will be an honored guest at the MIXER: OLYMPIAD, you will receive credit on the Eyebeam website, and you will earn our gratitude. So please, pass this along. Post it on your FaceTweeter. And if you are interested in making a video, please contact me ASAP.

#ifndef _OFX_CP_BODY
#define _OFX_CP_BODY

#include "chipmunk.h"
#include "ofxDelaunay.h"
#include "ofxVectorMath.h"

class ofxCpBody {
public:
	cpBody *body;
	vector<cpShape*> shapes;
	cpSpace *space; // Holds our Space object

	ofxCpBody(cpSpace* _space, bool inSpace=true, double mass=INFINITY, double inertia=INFINITY);
	~ofxCpBody();

	void removeFromSpace();
	int addCircle(int radius, int xoffset, int yoffset, int collision_type=1, bool isStatic=false, double friction=0.5, double elacticity=0.5);
	int addPoly(int nverts, ofPoint* points, int xoffset, int yoffset, int collision_type=1, bool isStatic=false, double friction=0.5, double elacticity=0.5);
	int* addTriangulatedPoly(vector<ofPoint> points, int xoffset, int yoffset, int collision_type=1, bool isStatic=false, double friction=0.5, double elacticity=0.5);
	double flipy(double y);
	int addShape(cpShape* shape);
	void setPosition(double x, double y);
	ofPoint getPosition();
	int getx();
	int gety();
	float getRotation();

	//void cpBodyApplyImpulse(cpBody *body, cpVect j, cpVect r)
	void applyImpulse(ofxVec2f j, ofxVec2f r);

	//void cpBodyApplyForce(cpBody *body, cpVect f, cpVect r)
	void applyForce(ofxVec2f f, ofxVec2f r);
	virtual void draw();
};

#endif

Aaron and I are just finishing nailing down our plans to go to San Francisco for the TV of Tomorrow festival.  After some initial confusion, we have decided that our presentation will be on March 4th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (Corner of 3rd & Mission).

I have been working with wunderkind Michael Schieben on the Laborers of Love project, trying to install FFMPEG-PHP on my server.  Eventually I gave up and contacted the creator, who has been very helpful.

Meeting at WARP – went well.  I wrote a little wrapper for Chipmunk for the project that we might be doing for them, but I got caught up in that and didn’t end up making a usable demo.

We also started serious planning for the Eyebeam Mixer. Aaron and I are in charge of organizing a torch relay.  Check out some more info on the recruitment page.

Crowded is going well.  raging81 ended up winning the MinimumNoise contest to edit the first episode, but I also hired another worker, flakolefluk to make an intro sequence. Here is the result:

The new episode is underway. The theme is all about MT workers helping each other.

This particular HIT will be used in the second episode, which is about fostering camaraderie between MT workers. One of the great things about MT is the diversity of the workers and the diversity of the experience that they bring. How can we use this to benefit the workers, not just the requesters.

I also had a nice meeting with the Wardenclyffe people about the POP magazine project that I helped out with.  Sounds like there could be some more interesting work there.

I will be giving a workshop as part of the ElectroSmog festival on PandaStream, “an open source solution for video encoding and streaming”.

What A Fool Believes by Jeffish on Mixcloud

#!/bin/sh

# Script update 2009-09-22 by bhugh to work under dreamhost roughriders & include newer
#  versions of most items.
# Script updated 2008-09-23 by Skwerl (antiquiet.com) to work with dreamhost's debian etch
# Script updated 2007-11-24 by Andrew (ajmconsulting.net) to allow 3rd wget line to pass
# Script updated 2006-12-25 by Carl McDade (hiveminds.co.uk) to allow memory limit and freetype
# Script modified 2010-2-10 by Jeff Crouse (jeff@crouse.cc) to install FFMPEG-PHP also
# FFMPEG-PHP script by http://www.netbrix.net/archives/20
#
# LIBMCRYPT version information (was set as static download file name previously.)
#
# Save the code to a file as *.sh
# Abort on any errors
#
set -e

# The domain in which to install the PHP CGI script.
export DOMAIN="laborersoflove.com"

# Where do you want all this stuff built? I'd recommend picking a local
# filesystem.
# ***Don't pick a directory that already exists!***  We clean up after
# ourselves at the end!
SRCDIR=${HOME}/source

# Set DISTDIR to somewhere persistent, if you plan to muck around with this
# script and run it several times!
DISTDIR=${HOME}/dist

# Pre-download clean up!!!!
#rm -rf $SRCDIR $DISTDIR
#rm -rf $SRCDIR

# Update version information here.
PHP5="php-5.2.11"
LIBICONV="libiconv-1.13.1"
LIBMCRYPT="libmcrypt-2.5.8"
LIBXML2="libxml2-2.7.6"
LIBXSLT="libxslt-1.1.26"
MHASH="mhash-0.9.9.9"
ZLIB="zlib-1.2.3"
CURL="curl-7.18.2"
LIBIDN="libidn-1.9"
CCLIENT="imap-2004g"
CCLIENT_DIR="imap-2004g" # Another pest!
FREETYPE="freetype-2.3.7"
OPENSSL="openssl-0.9.8i"
AUTOCONF="autoconf-2.60"
LAME="lame-3.97"
RUBY="ruby-1.9.0-0"
LIBOGG="libogg-1.1.3"
LIBVORBIS="libvorbis-1.1.2"
GD="gd-2.0.33"
FLVTOOL2="flvtool2-1.0.6"
FFMPEGPHP="ffmpeg-php-0.6.0"
AMR="amrwb-7.0.0.2"
CODECS="essential-20071007"

# What PHP features do you want enabled?
PHPFEATURES="--prefix=$HOME \
 --with-config-file-path=$HOME/etc/php5/${DOMAIN} \
 --enable-fastcgi \
 --enable-force-cgi-redirect \
 --with-xml \
 --with-libxml-dir=$HOME \
 --with-freetype-dir=$HOME \
 --enable-soap \
 --with-openssl=$HOME \
 --with-mhash=$HOME \
 --with-mcrypt=$HOME \
 --with-zlib-dir=$HOME \
 --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
 --with-png-dir=/usr \
 --with-gd \
 --enable-gd-native-ttf \
 --enable-memory-limit \
 --enable-ftp \
 --enable-exif \
 --enable-sockets \
 --enable-wddx \
 --with-iconv=$HOME \
 --enable-sqlite-utf8 \
 --enable-calendar \
 --with-curl=$HOME \
 --enable-mbstring \
 --enable-mbregex \
 --enable-bcmath \
 --with-mysql=/usr \
 --with-mysqli \
 --without-pear \
 --with-gettext \
 --with-imap=$HOME \
 --without-imap-ssl\
 --libdir=$HOME/lib\
 --bindir=$HOME/bin\
 --with-ffmpeg=$HOME"

# ---- end of user-editable bits. Hopefully! ----

# Push the install dir's bin directory into the path
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#export CPATH=$HOME/include:/usr/local/include:$CPATH
#export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

# set up directories
mkdir -p ${SRCDIR}
mkdir -p ${DISTDIR}
cd ${DISTDIR}

# Get all the required packages
echo Downloading ${PHP5}
if [ -f "${PHP5}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${PHP5} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://us.php.net/get/${PHP5}.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBICONV}
if [ -f "${LIBICONV}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBICONV} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/libiconv/${LIBICONV}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBMCRYPT}
if [ -f "${LIBMCRYPT}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBMCRYPT} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mcrypt/${LIBMCRYPT}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBXML2}
if [ -f "${LIBXML2}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBXML2} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/${LIBXML2}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBXSLT}
if [ -f "${LIBXSLT}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBXSLT} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/${LIBXSLT}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading mhash-0.9.9.9.tar.gz
if [ -f "${MHASH}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${MHASH} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mhash/mhash/0.9.9.9/${MHASH}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${ZLIB}
if [ -f "${ZLIB}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${ZLIB} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://www.zlib.net/${ZLIB}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${CURL}
if [ -f "${CURL}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${CURL} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://curl.haxx.se/download/${CURL}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${FREETYPE}
if [ -f "${FREETYPE}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${FREETYPE} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/${FREETYPE}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBIDN}
if [ -f "${LIBIDN}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBIDN} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/${LIBIDN}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${CCLIENT}
if [ -f "${CCLIENT}.tar.Z" ]; then
 echo ${CCLIENT} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/old/${CCLIENT}.tar.Z
fi

echo Downloading ${OPENSSL}
if [ -f "${OPENSSL}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${OPENSSL} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget -c http://www.openssl.org/source/${OPENSSL}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${AUTOCONF}
if [ -f "${AUTOCONF}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${AUTOCONF} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/${AUTOCONF}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LAME}
if [ -f "${LAME}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LAME} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/${LAME}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBOGG}
if [ -f "${LIBOGG}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBOGG} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/${LIBOGG}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${LIBVORBIS}
if [ -f "${LIBVORBIS}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${LIBVORBIS} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/${LIBVORBIS}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${GD}
if [ -f "${GD}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${GD} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/${GD}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${AMR}
if [ -f "${AMR}.tar.bz2" ]; then
 echo ${AMR} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/${AMR}.tar.bz2
fi

echo Downloading Ruby
if [ -f "${RUBY}.tar.gz" ]; then
 echo ${RUBY} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/${RUBY}.tar.gz
fi

echo Downloading ${FLVTOOL2}
if [ -f "${FLVTOOL2}.tgz" ]; then
 echo ${FLVTOOL2} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/${FLVTOOL2}.tgz
fi

echo Downloading ${FFMPEGPHP}
if [ -f "${FFMPEGPHP}.tbz2" ]; then
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else
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fi

echo Downloading ${CODECS}
if [ -f "${CODECS}.tar.bz2" ]; then
 echo ${CODECS} has already been downloaded.
else
 wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/${CODECS}.tar.bz2
fi

echo Checking out FFMPEG
cd ${SRCDIR}
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

echo Checking out MPlayer
cd ${SRCDIR}
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

echo ---------- Unpacking downloaded archives. This process may take several minutes! ----------

cd ${SRCDIR}
# Unpack them all
echo Extracting ${PHP5}...
if [ -d "${PHP5}" ]; then
 echo ${PHP5} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${PHP5}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBICONV}...
if [ -d "${LIBICONV}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBICONV} is already extracted
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBICONV}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBMCRYPT}...
if [ -d "${LIBMCRYPT}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBMCRYPT} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBXML2}...
if [ -d "${LIBXML2}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBXML2} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBXML2}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBXSLT}...
if [ -d "${LIBXSLT}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBXSLT} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBXSLT}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${MHASH}...
if [ -d "${MHASH}" ]; then
 echo ${MHASH} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${MHASH}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${ZLIB}...
if [ -d "${ZLIB}" ]; then
 echo ${ZLIB} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${ZLIB}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${CURL}...
if [ -d "${CURL}" ]; then
 echo ${CURL} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${CURL}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBIDN}...
if [ -d "${LIBIDN}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBIDN} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBIDN}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${CCLIENT}...
if [ -d "${CCLIENT}" ]; then
 echo ${CCLIENT} is already extracted.
else
 uncompress -cd ${DISTDIR}/${CCLIENT}.tar.Z |tar x
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${FREETYPE}...
if [ -d "${FREETYPE}" ]; then
 echo ${FREETYPE} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${FREETYPE}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${OPENSSL}...
if [ -d "${OPENSSL}" ]; then
 echo ${OPENSSL} is already extracted.
else
 tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${OPENSSL}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${AUTOCONF}
if [ -d "${AUTOCONF}" ]; then
 echo ${AUTOCONF} is already extracted.
else
 tar -zxf ${DISTDIR}/${AUTOCONF}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LAME}
if [ -d "${LAME}" ]; then
 echo ${LAME} is already extracted.
else
 tar -zxvf ${DISTDIR}/${LAME}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBOGG}
if [ -d "${LIBOGG}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBOGG} is already extracted.
else
 tar -zxf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBOGG}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${AMR}
if [ -d "${AMR}" ]; then
 echo ${AMR} is already extracted.
else
 tar -vxjf ${DISTDIR}/${AMR}.tar.bz2
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${LIBVORBIS}
if [ -d "${LIBVORBIS}" ]; then
 echo ${LIBVORBIS} is already extracted.
else
 tar -zxf ${DISTDIR}/${LIBVORBIS}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${GD}
if [ -d "${GD}" ]; then
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else
 tar -zxf ${DISTDIR}/${GD}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting Ruby
if [ -d "${RUBY}" ]; then
 echo Ruby is already extracted.
else
 tar -xvf ${DISTDIR}/${RUBY}.tar.gz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${FLVTOOL2}
if [ -d "${FLVTOOL2}" ]; then
 echo ${FLVTOOL2} is already extracted.
else
 tar -zxvf ${DISTDIR}/${FLVTOOL2}.tgz
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${FFMPEGPHP}
if [ -d "${FFMPEGPHP}" ]; then
 echo ${FFMPEGPHP} is already extracted.
else
 tar -vxjf ${DISTDIR}/${FFMPEGPHP}.tbz2
 echo Done.
fi

echo Extracting ${CODECS}
if [ -d "${HOME}/lib/${CODECS}" ]; then
 echo ${CODECS} is already extracted.
else
 tar -vxjf ${DISTDIR}/${CODECS}.tar.bz2
 mv ${CODECS} $HOME/lib
 echo Done.
fi

echo
echo ---------- Building Packages ----------
echo
# Build them in the required order to satisfy dependencies.

#libiconv
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBICONV} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBICONV}
./configure --enable-extra-encodings --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#libxml2
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBXML2} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBXML2}
./configure --with-iconv=$HOME --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#libxslt
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBXSLT} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBXSLT}
./configure --prefix=$HOME \
 --with-libxml-prefix=$HOME \
 --with-libxml-include-prefix=$HOME/include/ \
 --with-libxml-libs-prefix=$HOME/lib/
# make clean
make
make install

#zlib
echo
echo ---------- ${ZLIB} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${ZLIB}
./configure --shared --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#libmcrypt
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBMCRYPT} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}
./configure --disable-posix-threads --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#libmcrypt lltdl issue!!
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBMCRYPT}/libltdl ----------
echo
cd  ${SRCDIR}/${LIBMCRYPT}/libltdl
./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-ltdl-install
# make clean
make
make install

#mhash
echo
echo ---------- ${MHASH} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${MHASH}
./configure --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#freetype
echo
echo ---------- ${FREETYPE} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${FREETYPE}
./configure --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#libidn
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBIDN} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBIDN}
./configure --with-iconv-prefix=$HOME --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

#cURL
echo
echo ---------- ${CURL} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${CURL}
./configure --with-ssl=$HOME --with-zlib=$HOME \
 --with-libidn=$HOME --enable-ipv6 --enable-cookies \
 --enable-crypto-auth --prefix=$HOME
# make clean
make
make install

# c-client
echo
echo ---------- ${CCLIENT_DIR} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${CCLIENT_DIR}
make -i ldb SSLTYPE=none
# Install targets are for wusses!
cp c-client/c-client.a $HOME/lib/libc-client.a
cp c-client/*.h $HOME/include

#OpenSSL
echo
echo ---------- ${OPENSSL} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${OPENSSL}
./config "--prefix=$HOME" "--openssldir=$HOME"
make
make install

#Autoconf
echo
echo ---------- ${AUTOCONF} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${AUTOCONF}
./configure "--prefix=$HOME"
make
make install

#Lame
echo
echo ---------- ${LAME} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LAME}
./configure "--prefix=$HOME" "--enable-shared"
make
make install

#LibOgg
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBOGG} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBOGG}
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

#OggVorbis
echo
echo ---------- ${LIBVORBIS} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${LIBVORBIS}
./configure "--prefix=$HOME"
make
make install

#AMR
echo
echo ---------- ${AMR} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${AMR}
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make && make install

#FFMPEG
echo
echo ---------- FFMPEG ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-cross-compile --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --extra-cflags=-I$HOME/include --extra-ldflags=-L$HOME/lib
make
make install

#GD
echo
echo ---------- ${GD} ----------
echo
echo Compiling ${GD}
cd ${SRCDIR}/${GD}
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

#MPlayer
echo
echo ---------- MPlayer ----------
echo
echo Compiling MPlayer
cd ${SRCDIR}/mplayer
./configure --prefix=$HOME --codecsdir=$HOME/lib/${CODECS}
make
make install

#Ruby
echo
echo ---------- ${RUBY} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${RUBY}
./configure --prefix=$HOME  --exec-prefix=$HOME
make
install

#FlvTool
echo
echo ---------- ${FLVTOOL2} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${FLVTOOL2}
ruby setup.rb config -–prefix=$HOME --installdirs=home
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

#PHP 5
echo
echo ---------- ${PHP5} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}
./configure ${PHPFEATURES}
# make clean
make
make install

#copy config file
mkdir -p $HOME/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}
cp ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}/php.ini-dist $HOME/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}/php.ini
#vi $HOME/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}/php.ini (add extension=$HOME/lib/ffmpeg.so)
cp $HOME/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so $HOME/lib

#copy PHP CGI
mkdir -p ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
chmod 0755 ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
cp $HOME/bin/php ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin/php.cgi

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/lib
export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export CPATH=$HOME/include/:$HOME/include/lame/

#FFMPEG-PHP
echo
echo ---------- ${FFMPEGPHP} ----------
echo
cd ${SRCDIR}/${FFMPEGPHP}
~/bin/phpize
CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/include
./configure "--prefix=$HOME" "--libdir=$HOME/lib" "--bindir=$HOME/bin" "--with-ffmpeg=$HOME" --with-php-config=$HOME/bin/php-config
make clean
make install

echo ---------- INSTALL COMPLETE! ----------

Weeknotes are “about reflecting on your work, your achievements, and what’s on deck.“   Simple.

It has been 145 weeks since I started as a fellow at Eyebeam – arguably the beginning of my professional career.  So, what happened on this 145th week?

This Week

This week marked the beginning of the end of the Eyebeam Fellowship process, which started way back in November. On Monday, several applicants Skyped in and gave presentations about their applications.  Due to a confluence of factors, just this week we made our final recommendations to Amanda, the director of Eyebeam.  Surprisingly, it was a relatively easy process.  The applications were fairly strong, but the decisions just seemed to come easily for the committee.

After work I prepared for my second Code for Art class at Parsons.  We are currently in the “c++ crash course” section of the class.  I was over-ambitious in thinking that I could get through nested loops, casting, arrays, structs, “scope” and pointers all in one class.  I think we just barely made it through Arrays. So everything else will have to wait until this Tuesday.  It seems like I’ve got a good bunch of students this semester, although I think I might have scared some of them away with my first class, in which I assumed that they were all completely comfortable with Java/Processing.  I scaled back the class considerably, so hopefully I won’t lose any more students.

The gang at TV of Tomorrow asked for a schematic for the World Series of ‘Tubing, so I put together this little drawing.  You may not be able to tell by looking at it, but I spent way too much time on it.  Emma is still working on negotiations with the people at Vuzix to possibly get us some augmented reality goggles.

I made some minor improvements on the POP magazine server application to prepare for upcoming projects that will use the same types of techniques. In addition to doing SURF marker recognition, which only uses shapes, I will be implementing some color matching features.  The POP application was finally approved by Apple and launched, with is exciting.

On Wednesday, we had the first meeting about the upcoming Eyebeam Mixer.  In attendance was the video art group Cheryl, a representative from NYC Resistor, Kyle Lapidus of LoVid, Erik Fabian, Bennett Williamson, and Paul Amatai – the creator of the Mixer.  We had a great talk about some of the aspects of the Mixer, the theme of which is “Olympiad”.  Aaron and I were put in charge of spearheading the Torch Relay project, which is top secret for right now, but won’t be for very long.

Cass and I bought a shitload of American Apparrel shirts for an (another) upcoming top-secret project.  Stay tuned for more info.

On Thursday there were more Fellowship presentations, including a bunch of friends of mine: Aaron Meyers, Jon Cohrs, and Hans-Christoph Steiner.  Instead of having the regular first-Thursday-of-the-month Project Blackbird meeting this week, we decided to go to the Reggie Watts/Tommy Smith Radioplay on the 18th.  Should be great.  That evening I had a few beers with Aaron to celebrate him getting through his Fellowship presentation.  I also bit the bullet and bought a legit copy of Ableton Live with which to make new mixes.

On Friday I met with Roland Gebhardt about potentially doing a new website for him.  I suggested he use indexhibit. After that, we had the final fellowship review meetings, and then I met with Stephanie to discuss what we will be presenting at CAA.

On Saturday, I worked on getting a matrix transformation from SURF descriptors in openFrameworks.  This will be useful in many upcoming projects, but it is proving to be difficult.

Finally, just today I met with Aaron to discuss a meeting tomorrow at Warp Records.  We will be doing some work for them at some point.  I also discovered MinimumNoise – a crowdsourcing platform for audio work.  I set up a job to crowdsource the editing of the first episode of my Crowded radio show.

On Deck

Tomorrow is the meeting at Warp Records. In the afternoon, I will be e-working with intern/collaborator extraordinaire Michael on some final additions to the Laborers of Love project. We want to have the project in a presentable because on Thursday I fly out to Chicago to meet Stephanie so that we can present it at the CAA New Media Caucus.

On the 18th, Aaron and I will be going to Materials for the Arts, a magical place in Long Island City where groups donate all kinds of wonderful things that you can just go and take.  Aaron and I went there previously to get materials for Praying@Home.  I had to write some long-overdue thank-you notes to the people and groups who donated the materials that we took last time.  This is one of the conditions for coming back.

Monday evening I will be prepping for Code for Art on Tuesday.  Whenever I find time, I will be trying to conquer the problem of getting a matrix transformation from SURF descriptors, and trying to find time to work on the new World Series of ‘Tubing site.  I was working pretty hard on the site two weeks ago, but couldn’t find time this week.  Despite many attempts, I couldn’t get my head around CakePHP, so instead I made my own MCV framework using the Smarty template engine, PHPActiveRecord, BlueprintCSS, JQuery, and JQueryUI.  And then the Zend GData extension is int there too for YouTube data API access.

It’s application season!  Coming up: FileLux, HarvestWorks, Ars, Future Generation, and Megapolis

Chair: Vagner Whitehead
Panelists: Barbara DeGenevieve, Doug Ischar, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse

Saturday 2/13/10 from 2pm – 3:30pm
Columbia College Chicago – 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 150

Panel Abstract: While it is arguable that looking at pornography online equates actual sexual acts performed with the aid of computer communication technologies, the connection between mediated visual stimulation with desire exists. It is possible that a percentage of the people looking at porn and partaking on cybersex (from the traditional chatroom text, to emailed pictures, cam2cam, MUVEs, etc), consists of artists. Their interaction with these technologies and other beings interested in similar activities could potentially inform/influence their artistic endeavors. This panel aims to examine the varied form in which artists explore and present sexuality and the Internet in their works.

While on the subject, Aaron and I are still looking for an intern to help us with the super-exciting new version of World Series of ‘Tubing.  We have tentatively scheduled a performance at a super hip new venue in Brooklyn.  So, if I may horrifically mix some metaphors, the time is right to get on this bus on the ground floor.

For all of you listeners out there who just can’t wait for ep1 to drop:  have patience!  It will arrive soon!

Spring 2010 site: http://prof.crouse.cc/code_for_art/spring_2010

Code for Art is an introduction to C and C++ programming using the Macintosh, UNIX or DOS operating system. Students will learn how to compile basic executable files and be given a strong grounding in applications development. The class will also cover basic IDE and development environment issues as well as platform specific development concerns.

This class isn’t called Programming 101 because rather than linked lists and assembly language, we are interested in image, audio, and video manipulation. Rather than utility, we are interested in experience. This is how your work will be evaluated.

The class has 3 parts.

Part 1

Intensive tutorial in c++. For some of you this might be boring, but it is necessary so that we are all in the same page. At the end of that, there will be an open book, in-class code writing test.

Part 2

The second part is all about brainstorming and generating rapid prototypes. Each week there will be a presentation about a different coding topic, such as working with images, video, audio, computer vision, etc. There will be a critique at the end of this part where you will present your ideas (published in the prescribed way, video+ source code) and proofs-of-concepts and the class will help you decide which project to pursue in the next section of the class.

For this part, you will need Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks.

Part 3

The last part is about presentation, performance, documentation, and sharing. You will take one of your rapid prototypes and polish it.

• Go to Craigslist
• Do a search
• Copy the URL
• Go to Earthify Beta
• Paste the URL
• GO!

All That Jeff Wants by Jeffish on Mixcloud

The one problem is that it doesn’t remember the location and zoom level of the Google Map when you bookmark a search. This is annoying because part of what makes Housingmaps great is that you can zoom in to see only the location you are interested in.

WELL NOT ANYMORE! I fixed it! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65745

This little Greasemonkey script will add the lat, lon, and zoom to the “Link” element of the page.  Then, when you come back, it will move and zoom the map.

Yeah, it’s kind of a very specific need.  But there it is.

The project uses Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) to create your sexual fantasy. Mturk is an internet application that hires anonymous online workers to complete a set of tasks that are a few steps beyond automation – still requiring human intelligence. Workers get paid a small amount of money per task. Businesses list jobs and online workers get paid to fulfill the tasks requested.

For this first version of the project we want to find out how this global pool of anonymous workers interpret your sexual fantasy through image and video. You will be directed through a series of questions about your sexual preferences. It takes less than a minute. Your input will guide the workers as to what images and videos they should choose to represent your fantasy.

Once your input is submitted, it will be sent to MTurk. Through a division of labor, anonymous workers will interpret each one of your responses and search the internet for the image or video they feel best matches your response. When the job is complete your fantasy will be revealed. So why waste another minute – get started now!

Incidentally, I recently discovered the awesomeness of MixCloud and uploaded the majority of my mixes there. Check ‘em out.

Facebook event

Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: The Change You Want to See
Street: 84 Havemeyer Street
City/Town: Brooklyn, NY

Upgrade! NY continues its series on open source as it relates to activism and creative practice.

Within activist and creative practice there is a range of models for mobilizing the labor and creativity of the crowd (aka “crowdsourcing”). Both practices experiment with a spectrum of autonomy and control within those models. From distributed design to distributed fundraising, MoveOn to Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcer issues a call and creates structure for participation.

What role do individual motivations and collective goals play within these structures? What are the ethical, social and political implications of distributed labor?

Panelists include xtine, artist, educator and creator of the Mechanical Olympics; Jeff Crouse, Eyebeam senior fellow, artist, technologist and co-creator (with Stephanie Rothenberg) of the Invisible Threads virtual jeans factory; and Beka Economopoulos, online organizer, consultant and curator at The Change You Want To See Gallery.

This event will take place at The Change You Want to See, 84 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn.

Upgrade! NY is co-produced by Eyebeam and Not An Alternative.

This is a prelude event to the conference, The Internet as Playground and Factory: a conference on digital labor at the Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York, NY, November 12-14.

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3716 – James Chimpton (with Steve Lambert)
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3715 – openFrameworks (with Zach Lieberman)

It is used in a game called Slideshow Improv, where contestants must present the often-nonsensical but always hilarious generated slides as if they were part of a coherent presentation.