#! /bin/sh

# THIS VERSION TAKES A WEBCAM PIC AND BLENDS IT WITH SCREENSHOT
# ***************************************
# ******OMPD - One Minute Per Day - Voluntary Anthropology
# ******public timelapse wall
# need to install ffmpeg and imagemagick for this to work
# maybe wacaw too
# **************
# **************

# whatever you want to be your directory of files
cd ~/Pictures/OMPD
# make a subdirectory with today’s date, then go to it.
mkdir `date +%Y-%m`
cd `date +%Y-%m`

screencapture -m -x -t jpg last.jpg

DDDATE=`date +%Y%m`
DATETIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

RAMP=9
counter=10000
# at 15 seconds per shot, 4/min, 240/hr, 10 hours = 2400 shots
# while [ $counter -ne 3400 ] # run a fixed number of shots.
#while [ `date +%H` -lt 23 ] # if it’s less that 11pm
while [ 1 ] # run all the time
do
DATETIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

NOWDATE=`date +%Y%m`
if [ $NOWDATE -gt $DDDATE ]
then
echo “month change”
counter=100000
for f in screen*.jpg; do
let “counter+=1″
mv $f renum${counter:1}.jpg
done
# convert *.jpg ~/Movies/AUTOUPLOAD/OMPD-$DDDATE-$DATETIME.mp4
# for f in *.jpg; do let “counter+=1″; mv $f screen${counter:1}.jpg ; done
#done
# -g sets keyframes. useful if you ever edit the file later
ffmpeg -r 20 -b 5000 -g 1 -i renum%05d.jpg -sameq -s 720×450 ~/Movies/AUTOUPLOAD/OMPD-$DDDATE.mp4
#ffmpeg -r 10 -sameq -i webcam%04d.jpg ~/Movies/AUTOUPLOAD/camTL-$DDDATE.mp4
#ffmpeg -r 15 -b 5000 -i webcam%04d.jpg ~/Movies/AUTOUPLOAD/`
# -b 5000 to limit movie size.
cd ~/Pictures/OMPD
mkdir `date +%Y-%m-%d`
cd `date +%Y-%m-%d`
sleep 1
screencapture -m -x -t jpg last.jpg
screencapture -m -x -t jpg new.jpg
screencapture -m -x -t jpg middle.jpg
counter=10000
DDDATE=`date +%Y%m`
fi

#let “counter+=1″
echo $DATETIME
#echo $counter # if you want to see the progression on the terminal window
# capture a JPG screenshot

let “RAMP%=6″
let “RAMP+=1″
echo $RAMP
#screencapture -m -x -t jpg screen${counter:1}.jpg
rm -rf new.jpg
rm -rf webcam.jpeg
wacaw –jpeg -n 4 webcam
screencapture -m -x -t jpg -T 2 new.jpg
#composite /Users/danielpaluska/Pictures/OMPD/wave_gradient6.png new.jpg -displace 3×3 middle.jpg #screen$DATETIME.jpg
composite -blend 35 new.jpg last.jpg -matte middle.jpg

convert webcam.jpeg -resize %200 webcam.jpg
composite -blend 50 webcam.jpg middle.jpg last.jpg
#composite -blend 50 -gravity center /Users/danielpaluska/OneMinutePerDay/label.gif middle.jpg middle.jpg
#cp middle.jpg last.jpg
#mv temp.jpg screen$DATETIME.jpg
convert last.jpg -resize %50 screen$DATETIME.jpg

#wacaw –jpeg -n 4 webcam${counter:1}.jpg
echo “captured images”
# resize images using imagemagick here?

#mogrify screen$DATETIME.jpg -resize 720×450

# add additional imagemagick filters that intentionally art-ify the images?
echo “made screen smaller”
# convert webcam${counter:1}.jpg.jpeg -resize 95% webcam${counter:1}.jpg
# mv webcam$DATETIME.jpg.jpeg webcam$DATETIME.jpg

#convert screen${counter:1}.jpg -resize 50% screen${counter:1}.jpg

# capture an image from the webcam using wacaw package. get from sourceforge
#
# download zip file. unzip. run these two things at command line
# sudo cp wacaw /usr/local/bin; sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wacaw
echo yofool
# number of seconds between shots
sleep 20
# make a beep here? display a shot onscreen?
done
# one shot/15sec, played at 10 fps = 150x speedup. 150min(2.5hr) = 1 min vid. 10hrs = 4min
# about mac cron jobs on laptops and sleep times
# http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscri...

Can I see what your capture.sh looks like now so I can figure out where a few other things are not working? would like to try to “teach myself to penguin” here

the layered Broadcaster Project video is a great idea, and looks great as well!

this is awesome! just tried it and with only a little bit of editing it worked on my netbook. also happy about the relatively small HD and CPU footprint these processes seem to have.

one question: what is this line doing?

#composite /home/cullen/Pictures/OMPD/wave_gradient6.png temp.jpg -displace 7×10 screen$DATETIME.jpg

I commented it out because terminal was giving me errors. but is that the line that puts the webcam and screen capture together? I’d like to preserve that effect but my setup doesn’t seem to know what to do with that line. error:

composite: unable to open image `/home/cullen/Pictures/OMPD/wave_gradient6.png’: @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2498.
composite: unable to open file `/home/cullen/Pictures/OMPD/wave_gradient6.png’ @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3072.
composite: unable to open image `temp.jpg’: @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2498.
composite: missing an image filename `screen20111001124612.jpg’ @ error/composite.c/CompositeImageCommand/1607.

Martin

after many many years of thorough scientific reasearch involving huge amounts of wealth and labour invested in it…we humans finally came 2 the “string theory”…which i think says that the world is full of some type of strings..and if those strings vibrate in one manner they behave wat v call as an electron r else if in some other way as som other particles etc…

tell u wat…

decades ago…Lord gautam budha found out the fact that we humans r all composed of vibrations and that if u just calmly sit and do vipassana(it is a meditation technique invented by budha which involves observing various sensations goin on in ur body)…u can infact FEEL THE VIBRATIONS , FEEL THE ENERGY of urself and also the world aroun you…

which i think how much ever science u put can’t make u feel…

wat i feel is… hw muchsoever one knows science unless humanity isn’t there it’s just worth nothing … and humanity can only be brought through religion … which i think is the sole cause for the formation of various religions…

we humans are ofcourse potential enough for having a direct experience of the interconnectedness of all things…

there are many people, many saints in this world who have felt and are feeling…

but y only so few…

may be because , if everyone were able 2 , then this wouldn’t be earth !!!

i think this link helps you to know that wat u wanted is possible and many people around the world are infact experiencing this wonderful feeling of interconnectdness …http://www.dhamma.org/…

–thanks for reading =)

Thanks for comments. To be very clear - this has nothing to do with ‘believing in gods’ — it has to do specifically with the potential for having a direct experience of the interconnectedness of all things [something conceptually grasped by science], and getting beyond exactly the typical battle between anthropomorphic gods and science. Both sides are spending a lot of energy on that level of a discussion that potentially goes much deeper… thanks again for taking the time. -J

installed cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/
installed irfanview , http://www.irfanview.com/ (instead of imagemagick or scrot)
installed ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/)

then a little of messing around with script to get it happy. i also installed emacs as a text editor.

a usefull command is dos2unix.exe which you can run on any text file to clean it off many of the annoying carraige return characters that get left around by windows and cause problems when running scripts in cygwin.