Two videos were created using the candidates’ responses to each other. Amplitude (volume) was fed into an analyzer and sent to a Flash pong game created by Base42.nl.
There was no trickery involved (obviously — otherwise the candidates would have scored far more points) Patch was created with Max/MSP and Jitter as well as flosc and the Flash [...]

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Download YTPooper for Macintosh (.dmg 17MB)
A few months ago, I discovered the wacky world of YouTube Poops, when looking for “normal” videos. Since then, I have been entertained and captivated by some of the submissions.  You can see most of them at the following link: [here]
YouTube Poops are hard to define precisely, but they usually [...]

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Cool stuff:
Cycling ‘74 has finally launched the much-anticipated Max 5. You can read about it on their website located here. I am not going to bore you with all the details of what Max 5 is, since a very comprehensive introduction can easily be located on their site. Rather, I will bore you with my [...]

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Input from the computer’s audio system is routed through the UDP object in Max/MSP through a Java gateway on to a Flash file:

 
Same as above, but with live camera tracking added from built-in webcam routed through Jitter:

 
The modification was based on the original idea below, which uses a stereo signal and pitch tracking:

Thanks to Base42.nl
Here’s [...]

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