codebox

Introducing Getting Started with Processing and our new series, Codebox

Brian Jepson

I'm a tinkerer and finally reached the point where I fix more things than I break. When I'm not tinkering, I'm probably editing a book for Maker Media.

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Andrew Odewahn, our Director of Business Development, has been doing a lot of interesting things with Processing. Over a series of posts here on Make: Online, Andrew will share some of his projects with you in our Codebox series, covering topics like color tracking, augmented reality, and fun interactive graphics.

Codebox: Create a magic wand

By odewahn

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August 19th, 2010 12

Color tracking is a simple but powerful technique for creating fun new ways to interact with software. Using a webcam as a sensor, a program is “trained” to locate a specific color on some sort of physical pointer. The colored pointer is mapped to an (x,y) coordinate as it’s moved around. Done in real time, […]