Dance Star Trails (With Python, OpenCV, OpenGL, and Mediapipe)
The Coding Train is one my favorite Creative Coders to watch. Along with opening me to the world of computer vision, he showcases some pretty cool artists making art with code.
One such artist that caught my eye was Maya Man’s art pieces with PoseNet, where she combined her coding skill with her love of music and dance. Being a dancer myself, I wanted to make something similar. But I didn’t know Javascript, and I am too stubborn to switch from Python and C++ (It’s on the docit eventually along with Typescript).
So what better way than to rebuild it myself from the ground up using Python! (In retrospect, it was probably much simpler to just learn Javascript than to deal with all the issues I had to deal with frame rates, alpha blending with opengl and the webcam, etc. etc. etc. But it was still worth it.)