hi all,

I've been reading with interest the new opcode possibilities converting 
images to sound. I was thinking of creating sounds via csound with 
webcam. I've done some programming with Intel OpenCV library, which is 
available for windows and linux (and I think for intel OSX). It has easy 
interface to webcams and several useful functions, such as tracking etc. 
It could be a fun project to write a program to read webcam information 
and pass that to csound. A poor man's wiimote or using granular 
synthesis to convert the image seen by webcam to sound. As a matter of 
fact I coded my old rain-tcl/tk script to a more modern version, which 
can read different image formats and bigger images. Back in 1997 there 
were no digicams, so rain was a stripped down version to create sounds. 
Csound has improved and so have computers, so creating sounds from 
images has come a long way. Rain can create quite interesting sounds 
from images, the more "artsy" the image is, the more interesting is the 
sound.  As the image sizes have increased, the length of sound has 
increased also, so it's not just a short burst of sound. I have also 
thinked about changing the script so, that it could produce scores as 
Cesare originally in the thread described.

But anyway, really interesting, as I can code, but not compose so well, 
so automating things is always welcome.

best

-matti