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Enhancing Alice Worlds: Image and Sound Manipulations for Dynamic Digital Effects

This comprehensive guide to manipulating images and sounds in Alice covers techniques for creating engaging digital environments. Learn how to import and manipulate images as billboards, capture snapshots of Alice worlds, and utilize advanced effects such as chromakey for seamless video integration. With step-by-step instructions, you’ll discover how to create stunning visuals and sounds that enhance your Alice projects, allowing for interactive storytelling and creative presentations. Unleash your creativity and elevate your Alice experiences!

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Enhancing Alice Worlds: Image and Sound Manipulations for Dynamic Digital Effects

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  1. A Media Computation Cookbook Manipulating Images and Sounds for Use in Alice Part 1: Image Manipulations Part 2: Advanced Image Manipulations, e.g., changing colors in an area Part 3: Chromakey for digital video effects Part 4: Manipulated Alice images Part 5: Sound manipulations Part 6: Manipulated sounds in Alice

  2. How to use image manipulation with Alice • A. Create an image to appear as a Billboard in an Alice world. • B. Create images in Alice that you can manipulate as snapshots. • Like with chromakey • C. Make movies in Alice that you can then manipulate as video.

  3. A. Loading images as billboards in Alice • Step 1: Make a cool image that you want to appear as an object in your Alice world. • Step 2: Import the image as a Billboard.

  4. Step 3: Move it around and use it like an object

  5. B. Manipulating an Alice world snapshot • Step 1: Set up an Alice world the way you want it. • If you want to chromakey, • drag the “Ground” into the trash • make the “Atmosphere Color” of the world blue (default) or green.

  6. Creating the snapshot • Step 2: Program your objects to move where you want them to go. • Step 3: Play your world, and at the right time, hit “Pause” and “Take Picture”

  7. >>> capturedbirds = makePicture( getMediaPath("capture00.jpeg")) >>> capturedbirds Picture, filename W:\mediasources\capture00.jpeg height 360 width 666 >>> birds = scale(capturedbirds, 0.75) >>> birds Picture, filename None height 271 width 500 >>> chromakeyBlue(birds,moon) Snapshot from Tutorial,Moved to the Moon

  8. C. Manipulating an Alice video • Step 1. Tell Alice not to remove frames after making a video! (Change Preferences.)Only have to dothis once.

  9. Record your video • Step 2: From File menu, choose “Export Video.” • Click “Record” then “Play” • When done, “Stop Recording” and “Export Video.”

  10. Your frames are now saved

  11. Doing Chromakey to a Set of Frames import os def chromakeySet(frames,background): newdir = "C:/temp/" for file in os.listdir(frames): if file.endswith(".jpg"): printNow(file) frame = makePicture(frames+file) chromakeyBlue(frame,background) writePictureTo(frame,newdir+file)

  12. Using Chromakey to put Penguin in the jungle >>> jungle = makePicture( getMediaPath("jungle.jpg")) >>> chromakeySet( "W:/mediasources/frames/", jungle)

  13. Try it! • Take a snapshot of an Alice world and put it on a new background. • Put yourself into an Alice world. • Put an Alice character into our world. • Create a collage with various pieces of the pictures we have.

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