Posted on Saturday 1 October 2005
I thought it would be cool if you could use a webcam as a displacement map source. That way you could warp stuff on screen in real time. In the end I ended up using the webcam as the image source as well. In that way it also ’senses’ contrast. It’s quite bizarre, even a bit creepy. By playing around with the various settings you can get ghostly images, some nice textures, and some weird looking portraits. Try it here. Here’s some of my own results:
This is Flash? Do not adjust your set.
