Color Tracking Using Processing + MAX/MSP

This example shows how colors can be used to control MAX/MSP parameters. Users can click on a color from the camera input (which is in processing) and use the tracking mechanism to control a midi keyboard. Each color can also trigger various settings on the MAX/MSP patch by analysing the RGB (red green blue) content. Applications for this could be music therapy, art therapy, installation works. The program can also track light if dark enough, so a mini torch could be used to control audio visual, could control many percussion instruments (when used with zoning detection), drums, sound files, effects etc. Any objects with stronger colors than the background can be tracked as the program will average the pixel area when a users clicks on a color to track.

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Education

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• multi-color tracking

[SMITHCLARKSON]

can you please give me any information about how you went about doing this. I am looking to do something similar but i have no idea where to start.

[interactiveartsNI]

google 'processing' and then download their software, get the oscp5 library and add it to processing libraries, there is plently of examples of color tracking on the processing website, so you route the data to max/msp using oPEN soUND Control, on the max/msp side you need an object called 'osc-route' from berkley, again google it as i cannot post links here, once the data is in max/msp you can do what you want with it

[guypie]

i tried my best but im not intelligent enough...lol

[sdzuzyf47]

This is amazing. Check on my account, I have done something similar. Also a colour tracking system but everything is done on max.

[ultrawhat]

not criticizing! only making the point to

aomoustafa88 that he doesn't need the extra setup to achieve what he needs.

[ultrawhat]

No, you can track color 'natively' in max/msp and then send pertinent data to your jit.lcd object.

[aomoustafa88]

What if I want-NEED to use color tracking on Max MSP to control some 2D graphics I've created using the "jit.lcd" object/library on Max? Do i still need processing?

[audiovisualist]

Hammergeil....echt interactiv....ich brauch den Patch...*geil*