I’ve got a web cam here – any suggestions for some software that’s reasonably lightweight to steam?

The colors are already changing, kinda strange wondering who’s controlling it..

Posted at 3:10 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by reza

@reza: If you’re running Linux, I’ve had some success with webcam-server:
http://hacktivision.com/index.php/2009/06/16/setting-up-an-ubuntu-webcam-server?blog=2

If you’re not running Linux you’ll have to ask someone else.

Posted at 3:15 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by Mike Szczys

Nice work, Reza. I want one :) How about making it so when somebody picks a color it fades in from the current color? That could be slick!

Posted at 3:51 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by Jason

Reza – I think it would be cool if you made it to where each time someone visited, they added a certain RGB value to one color, and took one away from the others. That way, it’s could indicate the mood of all visitors at one time. (Or maybe just have a sort of triangle set up – Each vertex stands for a color (I.e.: Red, Black, and Blue. People push an indicator to one of the corners of their choice for each visit, so slowly, it begins to indicate the mood of the collection of people for that day. That’d be awesome!)

Posted at 4:27 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by Brandonman

Pretty cool! Reza, what if you set it up to look for keywords in certain groups(eg. happy, sad, angry) on single pages, page groups or pages you’re looking at currently and have it change based on that.

Posted at 6:47 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by napalm

I’ve put this page up if you want to see a pseudo-live feed. Static image updated every 5 seconds. It’s trippy when multiple people use it at the same time as the color changes get interleaved producing interesting strobe effects.

http://reza.net/misc/moodrock/webcam.html

Posted at 10:23 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by reza

Very creative. Nice job reza

Posted at 11:23 pm on Sep 19th, 2009 by supershwa

It’s still my intention to make one of these, to use as status notifications (green pulse for new mail, for example, in between more neutral fading) With the alabaster it looks awesome. How visible is this in day/office light?

Posted at 8:39 am on Sep 20th, 2009 by nebulous

It’s actually quite visible and the web cam does not do it justice. Looks much better in person. I just updated the code so the forking step is removed and I stream updated values via pipes. It’s now almost instantaneous and suffers no lag as the value is updated.

Posted at 1:10 pm on Sep 20th, 2009 by reza

this is fun for no apparent reason! i just spent like 15 minutes going from color to color and watching it update! it only changed to a color i hadn’t picked once (darn internet people doing it faster than me!)

VERY WELL DONE!

Posted at 8:20 pm on Sep 21st, 2009 by Sahal

UPDATE:
i set it to the color of my date’s homecoming dress (a nice mageroyal shade of purple), even though it won’t stay that way long. just thought i’d throw that out there…

Posted at 8:23 pm on Sep 21st, 2009 by Sahal