{"id":6,"date":"2011-11-15T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMDG3x00_D11\/?p=5"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T10:44:14","slug":"sample-project-1-kaiju-video-smasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a19\/sample-posts\/chriswe\/sample-project-1-kaiju-video-smasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Project 1: Kaiju Video Smasher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaiju is a Japanese word that means “strange beast,” but often translated in English as “monster”. ~ Wikipedia – Kaiju <\/a><\/p>\n

This project aims to give users the ability to control the playback of public-domain segments of Japanese monster films using a foam model of a high-rise building. In the end the final installation should provide a glitchy\/noisy media accompaniment to the violent interaction with the physical controller. Since the system revolves around playing media with flexible controls, puredata is a natural choice for a development environment since that is its specialty.<\/p>\n

As a general first step, it helps to make a visual flowchart of the system to get an idea of what elements will be involved in bringing the project to life. Below is a simple chart of how the user input will pass through the system to become cut-up monster footage.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the chart, one can already see a few needed features that need to be explored and implemented:<\/p>\n