Firefly 1.0065 Now Available (with 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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Comment by Tomasz Gancarczyk on February 24, 2012 at 6:48am: Hi Andy,

Even with a camera plugged in the same error. On Windows 7 64

Comment by Tomasz Gancarczyk on February 12, 2012 at 2:25am: Same error for me. But I also dont have camera on workstation :)

Comment by Barry Mair on February 11, 2012 at 8:11pm: Hi Andy.

No camera on this new work-station as yet *!

I apologise for the inconvenience.

Comment by Andy Payne on February 11, 2012 at 7:27pm: Hi Barry,

I'm looking into the Rhino 5 issue. Your Rhino 4 issue looks like the web cam video stream threw an error when it tried to connect to your web capture device. Usually, this is an indication that your camera is not working properly, or the type of camera is not supported by the media library. Are you sure your camera works as expected (ie. have you used it before in other applications like Skype?) Do you think you could provide more specifics on they type of hardware your using for your web cam? Also, it could be helpful to post a screenshot of your error too (if possible).

Comment by Barry Mair on February 11, 2012 at 6:52pm: I am getting the exact same error with Rh5 64bit as David posted.

In Rh4 SR9:

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 1) { Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. TargetInvocationException }

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 2) { The type initializer for 'Firefly_X.WebCam_VideoStream' threw an exception. TypeInitializationException }

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 3) { Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. AccessViolationException }

Thankyou for the tools.

Comment by Suleiman Alhadidi on February 11, 2012 at 3:42pm: Good Job . Thanks!

Comment by Andy Payne on February 11, 2012 at 3:36pm: Thanks everyone. Glad you like the tools. Also, thanks for reporting the Rh5 bug... I'll look into it. Cheers.

Comment by Andrew Heumann on February 11, 2012 at 3:27pm: Same error as Daniel in Rh5

Comment by Daniel Piker on February 11, 2012 at 2:24pm: Works fine with Rhino 4, though I'm getting the following error in Rh5 64bit

(Version 5.0 (5.1.2012.207, 07/02/2012))

:

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 1)
{
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
TargetInvocationException
}

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 2)
{
The type initializer for 'Firefly_X.WebCam_VideoStream' threw an exception.
TypeInitializationException
}

Object: WebCam_VideoStream (level 3)
{
Could not load file or assembly 'C_sawapan_media, Version=1.0.4418.24313, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
FileNotFoundException
}