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Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.

What would be the attack vector with indirect access to a webcam?

De-anonymisation for one.

But more generally, if I’m the sort of person who would allow this I’d probably allow some other stupid permissions if they promised me something novel on the other side.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation does not typically produce Claude-style sentence structure and phraseology, unless the translator is also Claude.

My bad, I used Claude to create the description. The thing is, I'm really bad at presenting a project properly. But thanks for the criticism, I'll take it into account next time.

I think the main objection is that hacker news supposedly doesn't want AI generated comments, which is going to paradoxically produce the situation where the mods will be overwhelmed with policing AI generated comments and they themselves will be replaced by AI who will then be incentivized to accuse human comments as being AI (because they're not team AI duh) and then there will be nothing but bots here.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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The 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

AI comments are like dreams: we may find our own interesting, but other people's are somewhere between "fairly boring" and "worrying".

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Since a physical theremin is played by non-contact gestures and motions, perhaps your creation might be more aptly termed a "Virtual theremin."

Although its still kind of working in roughly the same manner as the original theramin - just using a different frequency of electromagnetic radiation. Perhaps a "high frequency theramin"?

Photonoramin?

Edit: Cameramin, obviously, d’oh.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation does not typically produce Claude-style sentence structure and phraseology, unless the translator is also Claude.

My bad, I used Claude to create the description. The thing is, I'm really bad at presenting a project properly. But thanks for the criticism, I'll take it into account next time.

Best way to get better is practice, and practice is best without the assistant. Think weight lifting, rather than a forklift: the hard part is the point.

Obviously I appreciate this is hard to do when it's so tempting to get the easy convenient and free AI to do it for you, but the more practiced you are, the better you can do when you do need a metaphorical forklift.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Since 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.

Ermm, theremin came first, so actually the air guitar is a theremin-version of a guitar.

So actually this project should be called “Cameramin”, since it has very little do to with air guitar, other than air guitar being derived from the theremin ..

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although its still kind of working in roughly the same manner as the original theramin - just using a different frequency of electromagnetic radiation. Perhaps a "high frequency theramin"?

Photonoramin? Edit: Cameramin, obviously, d’oh.

Light orchestra?

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Bah, 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.

An iPhone version which used both the front and rear cameras would be far cooler than this, and provide better control too.

Call it Cameramin and you’ve got a customer. ;)

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