Web servers

Webserver with PHP (4.4) and Mysql.
Video Creation Computer is unknown… to composite one movie at a time.
Video Server by Akamai

Website Movie Maker

- People drag their choices onto the Stage.
- 1-7 : Pictures and Tags based on 7 categories.
- Once people choose a category, all the slots are filled with images and tags based on that category
- 1-7 continue to fill up with images and tags, drilling further based on user’s choices.
- The stage fills up with images and tags. Once they are finished they click ‘done’ to see a preview.

Website

1. Intro
Flash page, gives a cookie?

2. Previous Movies
A map of movies made in different countries, or a semantic-based map of all movies. Or something.

3. Make
Where movies are assembled out of text clusters and images. See next post.

4. Preview
A preview of the movie in a flash window at very small scale. 120×90?

5. Check Back
A url to check-back to, or an email is sent to user when movie is ready. Keeps track of how many times a movie is played. If a movie is not played its deleted from server.

6. Play Video.
Video is played at 480×360 resolution. Rss feeds of movies?

Categories

We have reduced the categories to 7. Each of these will not be named as such to the public. Instead we will use word-clusters, as we are trying to convey the typologies of paradises.

Installation Plan

Hardware specs, credits etc are here 

Installation Diagram

1. Spider
Search for images in 7 ‘categories’ and save to drive and database. As follows:
http://flickr.com/search/advanced/
then select all “Search by content type”
then check “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos”
then select “Most interesting”
For example: Rapture

Download largest images, include ‘interestingness’ & all tags associated with image.

2. Database
For each image:
ImageID, category, imagetags, interestingness

3. Image Modifier
- If image is in “x” category, then change colors per formula.
- Make all images into sizes: 800×600, 480×360, 120×90

4. Word Smith
- Take all tags in database and form associations between them.
- Serve a word/tag every “x” seconds, following semantically.

5. Image Generator
Each computer/projector has only one category.
For each category:
- Pull the latest word from the Word Smith.
- Select images from database
- Process images live, similar to these screenshots

6. Sound Generator
Each computer/projector has only one category.
For each category:
- Pull the latest word from the Word Smith.
- Select sounds from database
- Process sounds and display.

Notes:
1. Spider:
- Aprox. 50,000 images. For each category, the top percentile of ‘interestingness’ should be downloaded.
- Each category could include more than one search, eg. ‘dream city’ and ‘utopia’.
- The spider can be run every month or…? This is because there are only about 50 new images per day.
2. Database
- Should be in mysql/php if possible, as this is most convenient for the website also. Or?
3. Image Modifier
- This can be done last. Marek can also just download the images, modify them in photoshop and upload them back… Can also do this once a month for a year.
4. Word Smith
This is based on Martin’s Associagram…
5. Image Generator
by Martin
6. Sound Generator
by Rory