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I'm a complete beginner so please bear with me on any errors I may make.

I'm planning to create an instrument based on a traditional kaleidoscope toy. My objective is to sonify whatever the user sees as they look through the eyepiece of the kaleidoscope toy.

So I will have a camera in the kaleidoscope, that webcam will be the input for my patch in Max/MSP.

(I was thinking whatever input it will get will be sent to Arduino(But maybe arduino is not needed,I'm not sure) So I basically want to sonify (to different notes/instruments) the values I got according to their brightness/intensity)

This will change as I twist/turn the kaleidoscope. (?)

Without obstructing the eyepiece where the user can look through, I am planning to make a hole underneath the kaleidoscope and put the camera and have a mirror to reflect whatever the user sees to the camera. But I'm not so sure.

But I'm not so sure if this will make the user interaction interesting.

I was wondering if you could advise on what parts I should get other than the obvious one which is the camera and other things to enhance my project?

Any and all advice/opinions welcome; thanks for reading.

I'm a complete beginner so please bear with me on any errors I may make.
I'm planning to create an instrument based on a traditional kaleidoscope toy. My objective is to sonify whatever the user sees as they look through the eyepiece of the kaleidoscope toy.
So I will have a camera in the kaleidoscope, that webcam will be the input for my patch in Max/MSP.
(I was thinking whatever input it will get will be sent to Arduino(But maybe arduino is not needed,I'm not sure) So I basically want to sonify (to different notes/instruments) the values I got according to their brightness/intensity)
This will change as I twist/turn the kaleidoscope. (?)
Without obstructing the eyepiece where the user can look through, I am planning to make a hole underneath the kaleidoscope and put the camera and have a mirror to reflect whatever the user sees to the camera. But I'm not so sure.

But I'm not so sure if this will make the user interaction interesting.
I was wondering if you could advise on what parts I should get other than the obvious one which is the camera and other things to enhance my project?

Any and all advice/opinions welcome; thanks for reading.


digital-media-project

I am planning to make a hole underneath the kaleidoscope and put the camera and have a mirror to reflect whatever the user sees to the camera. 

I'd attempt to make sure before going any further; to me it seems like the difficult part of the project, even though webcams have gotten really small.

Another thing is that you need something with a very wide lens to even capture the field of view.

What I'm saying is, I think it's worthwhile finding out if this project can *technically* work at all before figuring out the jitter/max part of it.

I am planning to make a hole underneath the kaleidoscope and put the camera and have a mirror to reflect whatever the user sees to the camera. But I’m not so sure.

What I'm saying is, I think it's worthwhile finding out if this project can *technically* work at all before figuring out the jitter/max part of it.


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