For project 1, I used a Kinect to control the motion of a particle system using my hand. I am very interested in different applications of motion tracking and I think this was a good introduction to help me learn how the Kinect works. Here is a download link to a video showing my project in real time: IMG_1479

I used this tutorial to help me create particles from an image that I would then control using input from the Kinect. To control the Kinect I used output from the object dp.kinect2. This took me a while to set up initially. I wanted to have the system use real-time image input from the Kinect as the image – that did not end up working quite like I wanted so I stuck to using one preset image.

Here is the gist for my code: