The See Color interface transforms a small portion of a colored video image into sound sources represented by spatialized musical instruments.
But when a brightly colored video showed up on "106 & Park," BET's teenage-oriented music countdown, the twist was twisted.
A few feet away a computer screen displays the brightly colored, video-game-like models of objects he has scanned, which on a recent afternoon included a bronze from Thailand of the plump Buddhist disciple Phra Sankachai.
The image analyzer consists of an Olympus microscope, a colored video camera, colored monitor and a hard disc of a Leica IBM personal computer connected to the microscope and controlled by Leica QWin 500 software.
In brief, a software frame-grabber, based on the DirectShow developer tool kit in DirectX version 9 (Microsoft) was used to grab video frames one by one and convert RGB colored video frame to gray-scale image.
Alex McLeod's glistening multi-colored videos have the high gloss kitsch sheen typical of the pop art of Takashi Murakami or Jeff Koons.
Kahn also considered the music video as very sophisticated, saying that it is "definitely a departure from the sort of candy-colored videos she was doing before, so I always thought this was the transition between Britney the teenage pop star and Britney the sort of diva she became".
In this buoyant, candy-colored video, the band members play yarn instruments and Mr. Gondry's son works the yarn sound-editing machine that now stands in their living room.
A pseudo-colored (lime green) merged image of the color video and NIR fluorescence images is also displayed.
His artistry remains impressive: the first half, a lustrous 35-millimeter black-and-white Paris nocturne, is almost matched in its visual beauty by the second, a brightly colored digital video pastoral shot on the Breton coast.
Insert the colored analog video ports into the back of the Blu Ray player.
