Creative Computing

Joel Gethin Lewis

Unit 6 / Block 2: "Creative Practice: Computational Environments for the Web": Lecture 5: Bodies

Have you taken the register first? Are you recording?

What I'm going to talk about today:

  1. What questions to do you have for me?
  2. Body detection.
  3. Whole body tracking.
  4. Whole body shape tracking.
  5. Body part shape tracking.
  6. Stop press: hand tracking.
  7. Explanation of Move Mirror.
  8. Latest BodyPix2 from Google.
  9. What questions to do you have for me?

0. What questions to do you have for me?

  • What questions to do you have for me?
  • What are your concerns? What are you worried about? What do you want to ask but you are embarrassed?
  • All questions allowed!
  • 5 minutes to message me on Slack in private.
  • This idea came from Zach Lieberman. He does this exercise at the start of every session of School of Poetic Computation in New York.

1. Body detection.

2. Whole body tracking.

3. Whole body shape tracking.

4. Body part shape tracking.

5. Stop press: hand tracking

  • Handtrack.js. Thanks to Morgan Williams for spotting!
  • What else could you use this example for?

6. Explanation of Move Mirror.

7. Latest BodyPix2 from Google.

8. What questions to do you have for me?

  • What questions to do you have for me?
  • What are your concerns? What are you worried about? What do you want to ask but you are embarrassed?
  • All questions allowed!

Thanks!