For my first meditation assignment, I wanted to use video from the lowest common denominator because i am interested in what happens when people use inexpensive ubiquitous tools to create media. I shot some video with my camera phone and with my digital (still) camera, both of which record short segements of video at relatively low quality (in comparison to what I'm used to). I then set up a patch that grabs images from a web camera (very cheap and ancient one) and combines them with the pre-recorded video. I used the provided beginnings of a patch to create something interesting using various effects including being able to make the window fullscreen and revert it back. My largest problem with this meditation assignment, which actually turned out not to be a problem, was that QuickTime has updated itself so that it now no longer recognizes WinVdig, the driver PC users have to use to connect with QT from WDM. Thankfully, Luke provided me with the jit.dx.grab option, which uses a windows driver. I was quite happy to see that the people at Cycling 74 realized that Windows users might need such a thing. I wish the people at QuickTime were nice enough to fix this so I can use WinVdig with QTJava. For anyone interested, not that there are many of you who are, I have included some suggested fixes from Dan O'Sullivan in the previous post.

Here is the patch: