Painting with Video
This is really cool. Several students from the MIT media lab put a video camera inside a paintbrush and created software that allows you to “paint” on a screen with the image. It sounds crazy, but the sample video they offer (at the bottom of the page) shows how it works. This is a really cool idea: instead of trying to reproduce a texture with paints, kids can grab the texture itself and paint with it. It also works with moving images: the sample video shows a sequence where the painter grabs a video of someone blinking, then paints this onto the image, giving the snail they are painting blinking eyes.
[Via FreshDV and VideoThing]