Spider & Colorizer instructions

May 28 2008 | by marek | In Technical | No Comments

Install this, if not present already:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en

Download from here:
http://mrfeinberg.com/noplace/
both Shpidah.zip and colorizer.zip

Extract zips to:
c:\noplace

Download and place into c:\noplace\Shpidah:
http://noplace.mw2mw.com/doc/china/Shpidahspec.zip

Download and place into c:\noplace\colorizer:
http://noplace.mw2mw.com/doc/china/colorizerspec.zip

then:

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SPIDER
From the command prompt,

C:\noplace\Shpidah>Shpidah spider-rapture.txt
etc or similar.

where “spider-rapture.txt” is a specification text file to get images from Flickr.

all the terms for each cluster:

Shpidah spider-americandream.txt

Shpidah spider-communism.txt

Shpidah spider-ecoearth.txt

Shpidah spider-rapture.txt

Shpidah spider-nirvana.txt

Shpidah spider-urbanutopia.txt

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COLORIZER
From the command prompt,

C:\noplace\colorizer>colorizer colorizer-urbanutopia.txt L:\noplace\urbanutopia
etc or similar.

where colorizer-urbanutopia.txt is a colorizing specification text file
and L:\noplace\urbanutopia (for instance) is a directory containing images to be processed

all the terms for each cluster:

colorizer colorizer-urbanutopia.txt L:\noplace\urbanutopia

colorizer colorizer-ecoearth.txt L:\noplace\ecoearth

colorizer colorizer-rapture.txt L:\noplace\rapture

colorizer colorizer-americandream.txt L:\noplace\americandream

colorizer colorizer-communism.txt L:\noplace\communism

colorizer colorizer-nirvana.txt L:\noplace\nirvana

Calendar

February 21 2008 | by marek | In Technical | No Comments

February 29th - Jon or Rory to write Spider by end of Feb?

March 15th - Image Processor software - Martin? Java?

April 15th - Items for installation are finished!
Tag Sequencer (Martin). Sound Player (Rory), Image Player (Martin)

May 15th - Creator draft (website flash thing & movie engine?)

June 2nd - Beijing Installation

June 9th - Beijing Opening

July 14th - Website Launch

Synopsis:
A Spider downloads images from Flickr according to various tags. It puts the image name and tags into a database.
The Image Processor takes those images and manipulates their attributes and saves various sized images into folders.
The Tag Sequencer searches for shared tags in the database in various category ‘clusters’ and creates tag sequences for:
The Image Player plays the images in a sequence. (Installation)
The Sound Player plays the sounds in a sequence. (Installation)
The Creator is on the web only, its both the flash interface which sends a message to the Creator Engine which generates a movie.