Get digital plastic surgery thanks to openFrameworks and some addons

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[Kyle McDonald] is trying out a new look, at least in the digital world, with the help of some openFrameworks video plugins. He's working with [Arturo Castro] to make real-time facial substitution as realistic as possible. You can see that [Arturo's] own video has a different take on shading and color of the facial alterations that makes them a bit less realistic than what [Kyle] was able to … [Read more...]

G-men pay [Kyle McDonald] a visit

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Looks like the men in black have paid [Kyle McDonald] a little visit. The United States Secret Service is investigating him for fraud and related activity for his People Staring At Computers project. We just took a look at that one yesterday, and were thankful that all he was doing was taking people's pictures and not stealing their information. Looks like [Uncle Sam] wasn't being as lenient--or … [Read more...]

Update: Realtime 3D for you too!

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[Kyle McDonald] has kept himself busy working on 3D scanning in realtime. He's posted a writeup that takes us through the concepts, tools, and assembly of a DIY 3d scanning camera. You should remember a preview of this method posted earlier this month, but now it's time to build your own. You'll need a camera, a projector, and some open source software to process the image data. Using these simple … [Read more...]

Twittering keylogger

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[Kyle McDonald] sent in his latest project, a software keylogger that twitters what you type. He wrote it using C++ and OpenFrameworks. It logs each keystroke, then it posts to twitter 140 characters at a time. To protect himself, he set up a whitelist of private strings like passwords and credit card numbers that would be stripped before posting. If the twypewriter followed him, his keystrokes … [Read more...]