My Process
For the past 2-3 weeks I have educating myself on creating Generative Art in Processing. I began doing research into what already exists and I came across a great book called Generative Art, A Practical Guide Using Processing. Many of the exercises in this book went into great detail into some important terms that we will definitely be using in our project. The translate() function is a great way to move the origin point (0,0,0) for your sketch. This is helpful because you can make fractals that can be easily spaced out without having to calculate the parent fractals location plus the location of where you want the copies. I also learned that classes are the best way to keep organize in these sometimes lengthy sketches.
The Next Step
Once I had a good understanding of how to create fractals I went looking into how to make them interactive with a user on the kinect. I referenced a tutorial sketch that I had programmed that would utilize the kinect's skeletal tracking feature and I tweaked it to draw a red ellipse onto the user's right hand. I then pulled in a branch fractal and adjusted its update location to be connected with the location of the users hand. I ran the sketch and came to the realization that it was taking up a lot of processing power to draw what the kinect was viewing and the consistently changing branch fractal so I turned off the depth image it was drawing and I told Processing to find the pixels that coincided with the user and paint those green. That made the sketch run much more smoothly. Below is a snapshot of what the sketch looked like.
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