InteractLight

This is the code repository the installation produced and the experiments conducted during the course "Farbe, Licht, Interaktion" at ZHdK during the time of 10.03.14-19.03.14

View the documentation here: http://d-simon.github.io/interactlight

##Overview

• server-interact-light.js is the main entry point for the installation.

• interactlight/ major components relevant to server-interact-light.js

• lib/ independet reuseable components (i.e. snake logic)

• media/ media (i.e. pixelimages)

• loops/ examples of "video streams" / image sequences

• old/ this is where all experimental samples are located. The code here is very unorganized and not DRY.

###To Do

The code is currently (17.03.14) in very unorganized state. This is work in progress. The plan is to split up functionality into separate libraries and provide a clean set of repositories/plugins, plus a collective repository for our usage examples.

• Libraries See pixelscreen and image2pixels
  • Interface to 12x12 DMX Screens / A general library to utilize and arrange pixel screens with DMX
  • Abstract (Combine) the DMX <-> Artnet interaction
  • Provide an easy conversion between Single Channel LED vs. 3-Channel RGB LED
• Make everything D.R.Y
• Clean up the so far created examples Create beginner friendly examples
• Web Interface(s)

###Dependencies

• Node.js
• If you intend to connect through DMX directly from your machine like in on of the old/ samples (instead of sending it through Artnet) then you'll need the FTDI Drivers + libftdi (Install the later one with Homebrew or Macports brew install libftdi) and the dmx library for node (npm install dmx).

###Installation

Run npm install to load all package dependencies