Extirpation

Gathering statistical data about the participants during the installation is integral determining the overall health of the system. One way of gathering a direct and meaningful data in a non intrusive way is through people (blob) tracking. From blob (x,y) data we can derive a whole host of other more complex relationships between these blobs and the eco-system. I’ve used the OpenCV library for max/msp to track the participants movements in the gallery. At the moment the smaller video window is used simply clicked at any point to initialise tracking of an object but I plan to create automated initialisation attached to a coin-op. Here’s the text version of the Max patch opticalflow.pat