The first project is more of a tech demo than anything, but like the assignment said, hopefully this can be a springboard for future projects (now that a lot of the technical stuff is out of the way).
Users hold a card with two squares to the camera, and MaxMSP finds the squares on the paper and then draws a box showing the boundary lines. I've also included a patch that looks for the average box, so that it's not quite as jumpy as the included Jitter code.
The problem is that the tracking should be more accurate. I now understand why people are paid money to do video tracking, because it's difficult to get a good signal. Most of the problems have come from trying to get color ranges correct. After this I'm definitely looking into hooking up a WiiMote to Max, since that'll look for heat signals which should be easier to pick out.
All in all though, I learned a lot of new things about MaxMSP. I feel like I have a much better handle on things. I spent a majority of the week creating my own Color Tracker (but it moved very slowly), and even made a gradient maker. I'm also going to look into connecting it to Flash to do some graphics (or look into the built in graphics of Max).
