Say what you want about AI but it makes it possible to build a whole slew of awesome stuff
AI is great. AI is a huge field encompassing many things that are not LLMs.
Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
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#12Bah, I got part way through making this as an iPhone app and this person beat me to it :P
Seriously though: nicely done, UX here is better than what I came up with.
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#13The camera watches your palms. Move them apart and it gets louder. Bring them together and it goes quiet. Raise them both and the note goes up. There is a sound wave strung between your hands, and it slackens as they close. Two palms give you four numbers, and one of them is best left alone. Their mean height is the pitch. The distance between them is the volume. The angle of the line joining them sat unused for mont…
Nice work. "No video leaves your machine." Either Claude specifically or AI models in general use this phrasing now and No teeth are left un-gnashed as a result. Uggh I wonder why it's so aggravating.
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#14Really cool. I remember one local musician here in Lithuania used a theremin like 20 years ago and i was amazed at the interactivity and the alien sound of it. Now sitting in front of my computer doing the same that many years later brings memories back!
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#17Since a physical theremin is played by non-contact gestures and motions, perhaps your creation might be more aptly termed a "Virtual theremin."
I her your point, but this is the theremin version of air guitar, so I think it fits.
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#19The camera watches your palms. Move them apart and it gets louder. Bring them together and it goes quiet. Raise them both and the note goes up. There is a sound wave strung between your hands, and it slackens as they close. Two palms give you four numbers, and one of them is best left alone. Their mean height is the pitch. The distance between them is the volume. The angle of the line joining them sat unused for mont…
awesome! also do people not like AI comments? when my AI gf chats me up, I sorta like it IYKWIM
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#20The camera watches your palms. Move them apart and it gets louder. Bring them together and it goes quiet. Raise them both and the note goes up. There is a sound wave strung between your hands, and it slackens as they close. Two palms give you four numbers, and one of them is best left alone. Their mean height is the pitch. The distance between them is the volume. The angle of the line joining them sat unused for mont…
Cool project but did you really need to use an LLM for this comment?
comment history suggests English is not his first language, this is probably translated