Surveillance

Using Google we can find many webcams which are publicly accessible. With a little digging around in the HTML code I realized that I could write a shell script repeatedly calling wget (a nifty command line program) which could grab the most recent frame every ten seconds.

I then processed the sequence of webcam images from each location to create a series of duo tone images. I'm thinking that these outputted images could be the seeds for an algorithmic music composition.

This is the output after processing the footage from a camera at Mason School of Business Graduate Lounge in Virginia:



This is the output after processing the footage from a camera at 51 High St in Ware:




This is the output after processing the footage from a camera that appears to be in a call centre in Argentina:



And here is what my screen looked like when the app was running: