Firefly 1.0065 Now Available (New Computer Vision and Audio Tools)

I am very excited to announce the release of a new build for Firefly, complete with a new suite of tools for computer vision and audio synthesis. First, I would like to thank Panagiotis Michalatos for his support in the development of many of these new tools. In addition to his technical help, the latest build of Firefly makes extensive use of a media library (C_sawapan_media.dll) created by Panagiotis Michalatos and Sawako Kaijima, founders of the computation and design consultancy firm known as Sawapan. For more information about their work, visit: www.sawapan.eu.

There are many new tools included in this build including: live web cam streaming, video playback, image analysis and filtering, sound capture, tone generation, and many more... For more detailed information, make sure to check out the README.txt file included in the download. Or take a look at the some of the new components in action here (https://vimeo.com/35973354). I look forward to hearing your feedback, so let me know what you think about these new tools (and what features you'd like to see in the next release).

To download the latest build of Firefly visit:

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Permalink Reply by Hiram Boujaoude on February 11, 2012 at 3:29pm

Thank you Andy! Such a breakthrough with all the new tools.

Permalink Reply by Luis García Lara on February 11, 2012 at 6:23pm

great!

Permalink Reply by Do Young Ju on February 12, 2012 at 2:08am

Great!

Permalink Reply by Guido Maciocci on February 13, 2012 at 11:12am

this has taken things to a whole new level! nice work Andy, this is excellent stuff!

As soon as I read that there would also be audio analysis tools included, I immediately thought about audio analysis as a parameter driver directly within gh. Are there plans to include a similar variety of analysis components for audio as there are for video? For instance, it would be great be able to drop a .wav file into gh and decompose it into frequency/volume information without passing via sound capture. Then we could even begin to create some form of audio visualisation in gh...

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on February 13, 2012 at 11:43am

Hi Guido,

Yes, I do plan to implement many more sound features. Importing a .wav file and decomposing the frequency spectrum is definitely possible. I would also like to implement fast fourier transform (FFT) module to decompose the waveform into its component parts. There's much more I intend to implement... I just wanted to go ahead and release the tools as is so other people could begin using them... but more to come soon.

-Andy

Permalink Reply by Guido Maciocci on February 14, 2012 at 10:40am

excellent! looking forward to it! and thanks again!

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