Kinetic Sculpture on hold for the moment

So Kinetic Sculpture is on hold for the moment. My OS on my home computer crashed and I am having difficulty booting up, thus making it difficult to retrieve files. I believe I should have this fixed over the weekend. I was planning on showing the progress of the sculpture for Friday's crit, but shit happens.

On the other hand KS was coming along nicely. I found a bunch of good sites that discuss motion tracking via webcams using AS. With the advent of flash player 9 and AS3 the need for computer processing power is minimal. It is such a light language. The following links are to some motion tracking sites:

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/613/1/Camera-motion-controlled-ball/Page1.html

http://blog.ericksouza.com/en/experiments-with-motion-detection-in-the-flash/

http://www.urdalen.com/blog/?p=214

http://blog.rackdoll.nl/?p=63

http://drawlogic.com/2007/10/17/motion-detection-in-flash-as2-and-as3-and-c/

I also have been playing around with Papervision3D a lot. I think I am going to use that to render my real time 3d graphics as opposed to jitter or openGL. I don't have any .swfs to post yet, but I will soon. I have been playing with the stepper motor that came with my make controller kit and I believe it will work perfectly for KS. Also I found an AS physics engine that is just nothing more than cool, so I will post a link to that too!

http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/