Just to see how this could work with other media I looked around for more time-lapse imagery. There wasn’t much that would work or was interesting. Somehow while searching for ideas I ended up with some images of Edward Muybridge. In some way this was like time lapse (just very short time steps) but I have always had an interest in his work and wonder about the fortuitousness of chance so set out to see if I could use some of these mages to create a sequence. It turns out Muybridge was quite as exacting as he may appear but I soon had my sequence to try with my depth to time system.
It was animated so that it looked like each image in the grid was progressing along its own sequence. That fact that there were rows of this gave individuals motion but also a wave like motion to the whole sequence.
The first thing that struck me was that without colour and a large focal object in the image it was very hard to make out what was going on. I was alos getting some performance issues. The idea that I had built something that you could plug content into was gone.
I persisted with this making the code more efficient. I also found that the already segmented images I was working with just lost their definition as soon as the main image started to break up. I had tried smaller segments to no avail so with few options I tried increasing the size of the elements at each capture. This resulted in the interesting Mosaic effect you can see below.
I think the main issue here is the main image is very static, which works just fine when there are still images defining the movement but the addition of actual movement here clashes with Mutbridges implied movement. Although interesting there was no real spark for me, so I decided to put this whole line of enquiry on hold and explore other ideas with the Kinect.