iSight fun … 
I went to a small art exhibition with some interesting projects and found one which was unfortunately extremely slow. It played with the image you can get from your iSight. Not a big deal as we have seen this before, the project takes the image and makes zeros and ones out of it but keeping the colour. I have tried to create an inspired remake. Take a look at
mepixel.jar. Just download and double click. All you need extra is a working
Quicktime installation.
The program has some controls. Use 'C' to switch between square and character mode and 'F' to change whether 1 or 0 is used for bright areas. To slow down the scan line use 'up' and 'down' cursor keys. To change the brightness threshold use the 'left' and 'right' cursor keys.
For me it has worked as an example how to use Quicktime for Java to get images from a camera. The code is also available on this local subversion server. Check out
http://thinkberg.com/svn/mepixel/trunk
Ant build.xml is included. However, you might need to change the place where your QTJava.zip file is located if you are not using MacOS X.
