Super Mario Slaughter
== Description Motivation ==
*MotivationThis piece was motivated by my interest in video games and idea that art doesn't need to be serious all the time (because you know, "art" is serious business). This piece is essentially a role reversal of the classic mario video game franchise. Here, the user assumes the role of bowser and indulges in a nonstop slaughter of his mortal enemy.
Same motivation as midterm really...== Paradigm thing or whatever ==
I would like to utilize motionInstead of using a traditional video game controller, the user swings his/facial tracking her arms to construct a virtual aquarium projected on screenkill the torrential downpour of marios. 100 mario kills equal 1 peach kill. The projection would depict I wanted to make something with a dark aquarium and when motion is detected more intuitive interface (person walking in front reflective of webcamdreams?), a tiny orb would light up amidst the darkness. When a face becomes recognized, the ambiguous orb reveals itself as the lure from an angler fish which jumps towards the persons face and crash onto the screen as if it were glassionno. Stylistically, i want to stay in the same line as the sunflower project and create a few distinct animations with their own nuanceshah.
*== Technical Description==
I would like This piece utilizes OpenCV and processing to create a non-controller based user interface to immerse the animations user in a video game dreamscape (in respect to bowser). I created some graphic elements in illustrator while editing existing nintendo sprites for use in flash and somehow incorporate them into processing using open CVthe game.
== Visualization ==
screenshot
coming soon![[Image:mario.png]] intended balloon that was supposed to appear under the users face [[Image:balloon.png]] bowser hat mock (for a more immersive experience) [[Image:hat.png]] == Game code == <code> import hypermedia.video.*; // Imports the OpenCV library OpenCV opencv; // Creates a new OpenCV objectPImage movementImg; // Creates a new PImage to hold the movement imageint poppedBubbles; // Creates a variable to hold the total number of popped bubblesArrayList bubbles; // Creates an ArrayList to hold the Bubble objectsPImage mariodead; // Creates a PImage that will hold the image of the bubblePImage mario;PImage balloon;PImage peachcount;PImage castle;PFont font; // Creates a new font objectint p;PImage dude1;PImage dude2;int c1 = 0;int c2 = 600;int h1 = 395;int h2 = 395; import ddf.minim.*; //sound stuff AudioPlayer player;Minim minim;AudioSample pain;AudioSample peach; //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------void setup(){ size ( 635, 480,P2D ); // Window size of 640 x 480 minim = new Minim(this); // sound stuff opencv = new OpenCV( this ); // Initialises the OpenCV library opencv.capture( width, height ); // Sets the capture size to 640 x 480 movementImg = new PImage( 635, 480 ); // Initialises the PImage that holds the movement image poppedBubbles = 0; p = 0; bubbles = new ArrayList(); // Initialises the ArrayList mario= loadImage("mario counter.png"); castle= loadImage("castle.png"); peachcount= loadImage("peachcount.png"); dude1 = loadImage("dude1.png"); dude2 = loadImage("dude2.png"); balloon=loadImage("balloon.png"); mariodead = loadImage("mariodead.png"); // Load the bubble image into memory font = loadFont("ComicSansMS-Bold-48.vlw"); // Load the font file into memory textFont(font, 32); opencv.cascade( OpenCV.CASCADE_FRONTALFACE_ALT );player = minim.loadFile("Bowsers_Castle.mp3", 2048); player.play(); pain = minim.loadSample("mario_pain.mp3", 2048); peach = minim.loadSample("peach.mp3", 2048); }//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------void draw(){ bubbles.add(new Bubble( (int)random( 0, width - 40), -mariodead.height, mariodead.width, mariodead.height)); // Adds a new bubble to the array with a random x position opencv.read(); // Captures a frame from the camera opencv.flip(OpenCV.FLIP_HORIZONTAL); // Flips the image horizontally image( opencv.image(), 0, 0 ); // Draws the camera image to the screen opencv.absDiff(); // Creates a difference image opencv.convert(OpenCV.GRAY); // Converts to greyscale opencv.blur(OpenCV.BLUR, 3); // Blur to remove camera noise opencv.threshold(20); // Thresholds to convert to black and white movementImg = opencv.image(); // Puts the OpenCV buffer into an image object Rectangle[] faces = opencv.detect( 1.2, 2, OpenCV.HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING, 100, 100 ); // balloon stuff noFill(); noStroke(); for( int i=0; i<faces.length; i++ ) { rect( faces[i].x, faces[i].y, faces[i].width, faces[i].height ); image (balloon, faces[i].x, faces[i].y+(faces[i].height), faces[i].width, faces[i].height); } for ( int i = 0; i < bubbles.size(); i++ ){ // For every bubble in the bubbles array Bubble _bubble = (Bubble) bubbles.get(i); // Copies the current bubble into a temporary object if(_bubble.update() == 1){ // If the bubble's update function returns '1' bubbles.remove(i); // then remove the bubble from the array _bubble = null; // and make the temporary bubble object null i--; // since we've removed a bubble from the array, we need to subtract 1 from i, or we'll skip the next bubble pain.trigger(); }else{ // If the bubble's update function doesn't return '1' bubbles.set(i, _bubble); // Copys the updated temporary bubble object back into the array _bubble = null; // Makes the temporary bubble object null. } } opencv.remember(OpenCV.SOURCE, OpenCV.FLIP_HORIZONTAL); // Remembers the camera image so we can generate a difference image next frame. Since we've // flipped the image earlier, we need to flip it here too. image(mario, 10, 5); text(":" + poppedBubbles, 160, 70); // Displays some text showing how many bubbles have been popped image(peachcount, 480, 20); text(p + ":", 480, 70); if (c1 < 630) { c1++; } else { c1 = 0; h1 = 395; } if (c2 > 0) { c2--; } else { c2 = 660; h2 = 395; } //drawing the clouds on the screen with moving variables image(dude2, c1, h1); image(dude1, c2, h2); image(castle, 0, 420); }//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------class Bubble{ int bubbleX, bubbleY, bubbleWidth, bubbleHeight; // Some variables to hold information about the bubble Bubble ( int bX, int bY, int bW, int bH ) // The class constructor- sets the values when a new bubble object is made { bubbleX = bX; bubbleY = bY; bubbleWidth = bW; bubbleHeight = bH; } int update() // The Bubble update function { int movementAmount; // Create and set a variable to hold the amount of white pixels detected in the area where the bubble is movementAmount = 0; for( int y = bubbleY; y < (bubbleY + (bubbleHeight-1)); y++ ){ // For loop that cycles through all of the pixels in the area the bubble occupies for( int x = bubbleX; x < (bubbleX + (bubbleWidth-1)); x++ ){ if ( x < width && x > 0 && y < height && y > 0 ){ // If the current pixel is within the screen bondaries if (brightness(movementImg.pixels[x + (y * width)]) > 127) // and if the brightness is above 127 (in this case, if it is white) { movementAmount++; // Add 1 to the movementAmount variable. } } } } if (movementAmount > 5) // If more than 5 pixels of movement are detected in the bubble area { poppedBubbles++; // Add 1 to the variable that holds the number of popped bubbles if (poppedBubbles > 100) { poppedBubbles = 0; peach.trigger(); p++; } return 1; // Return 1 so that the bubble object is destroyed }else{ // If less than 5 pixels of movement are detected, bubbleY += 10; // increase the y position of the bubble so that it falls down if (bubbleY > height) // If the bubble has dropped off of the bottom of the screen { return 1; } // Return '1' so that the bubble object is destroyed image(mariodead, bubbleX, bubbleY); // Draws the bubble to the screen return 0; // Returns '0' so that the bubble isn't destroyed } } } void stop(){ // always close Minim audio classes when you are done with them player.close(); opencv.stop(); minim.stop(); super.stop();}</code> == balloon code== <code> import hypermedia.video.*; OpenCV opencv;PImage balloon; void setup() { size( 640, 480 ); balloon=loadImage("balloon.png"); opencv = new OpenCV( this ); opencv.capture( width, height ); // open video stream opencv.cascade( OpenCV.CASCADE_FRONTALFACE_ALT ); // load detection description, here-> front face detection : "haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml" } void draw() { opencv.read(); Rectangle[] faces = opencv.detect( 1.2, 2, OpenCV.HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING, 40, 40 ); image( opencv.image(), 0, 0 ); // draw face area(s) noFill(); noStroke(); for( int i=0; i<faces.length; i++ ) { rect( faces[i].x, faces[i].y, faces[i].width, faces[i].height ); image (balloon, faces[i].x, faces[i].y+(faces[i].height), faces[i].width, faces[i].height); }} </code>
