Draggable video trajectories

[laura]

Nice to see the forums back up!
Came across this and thought it interesting:

http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/ (win)
http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/dragon (mac)

Not strictly flash although I understand it uses flv videos of sorts.
The guys behind it term it 'direct manipulation', it seems it analyzes the difference between I and P frames and calculates the trajectories that objects follow through the video's timeline, allowing the user to drag the individual elements across their perceived trajectory. Pretty impressive stuff from a HCI viewpoint although I imagine the level of interactivity if contingent upon the number of keyframes the flv is encoded with
Not sure how you'd achieve a similar effect in Flash, perhaps using the BitmapData api to analyze the video. I know of one example on devnet utilizing it for webcam motion detection under FCS: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/artic ... otion.html

[Tool]

hmm, thats pretty cool, i watched the dragon thingy.

however they, make it sound more useful then it actually seems.

[erickcardona_dot_com]

huh, sorry i was paying attention at your prettiness. haha jk

[sekasi]

huh, sorry i was paying attention at your prettiness. haha jk

[Jason_The_Adams]

huh, sorry i was paying attention at your prettiness. haha jk

...Smooth...

I'd be interested to see that put into a more pragmatic use. Presently it seems like the sort of function that would be cool for as long as it takes it to cross everyone's path on the internet for a few brief moments of, "Well that's kind of neat." Depending on how it works though and how complicated that method is, there could be some creative uses for it.

Then again, maybe I'm just not seeing the bigger picture as they're presently displaying it.