Video Composition based on motion tracking

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Hey Friends

This is the deal:

im building this "art-project" with MAX MSP, JITTER and SOFT VNS in which a DV camera tracks the presence of a user against a white background, and then according to this info "draws" the silohuette of this presence with a series of (miniaturized) photo stills or video loops. so the user comes in front o the camera and is faced with a shape that resembles his/her own body, but is actually composed of a multitude of videos/images.

im using SoftVNS to do the tracking. easy money. then i go to jitter where i downsample the (now binarized black and white image) so i can see the silohuette in a more squareish-pixelated way.

what i have to do now is translate these big chunks of white into images. and i have no clue as to how to do that.

can anyone point me in the right direction here? i'd be insanely grateful.

this is what i have so far

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

thanks a lot guys
federico