Adios Chancellor! - Ben Brickley

Contents

Concept

The idea for this piece is to create a simple, interactive way to doodle on the face of our wonderful Chancellor, Ms. Marye Anne Fox. It will be a cartoonized picture of our beloved leader with a simple black background. When the user blows into the microphone, ink will appear wherever the mouse is.

Motivation

-All the shitty things that she has put myself and my classmates through in the past four years

-The fact that this is the last project that I will ever do under her domain

Visualization

Source Code

import ddf.minim.*;

import ddf.minim.analysis.*;

import ddf.minim.signals.*;

Minim minim;

AudioInput in;

FFT fft;

float loudestFreqAmp = 5;

float loudestFreq = 5;

int timerCounter = 5;

void setup() {

size(550, 770);
frameRate(30);

minim = new Minim(this);
minim.debugOn();
background(loadImage("mfox.jpg"));
noStroke();
in = minim.getLineIn(Minim.STEREO, 1024);
fft = new FFT(in.bufferSize(), in.sampleRate());

}

void draw() {

fft.window(FFT.HAMMING);
for(int i = 0; i < fft.specSize(); i++)
{
   if (fft.getBand(i) > loudestFreqAmp && fft.getBand(i) > 10)
  {
    loudestFreqAmp = fft.getBand(i);
    loudestFreq = i * 4;
    fill(loudestFreq * 10, 255 - loudestFreq, loudestFreq * 20, 128 );
    if(loudestFreq < 25)
    {
     stroke(0,0,0,250);
   strokeWeight(7);
   ellipse(mouseX,mouseY,5,5);
    }
    timerCounter = 0;
  }
}
loudestFreqAmp = 0;
fft.forward(in.mix);
timerCounter++;


if (keyPressed){
  setup();
}

}

void stop() {

in.close();
minim.stop();

super.stop();

}