Wiigee + MAX-MSP (Hidden Markov Model)

I altered the Wiigee source code to handle Open Sound Control messages by writing a short java class in Netbeans and changing 2 lines of code in the frontend.java file, recompiled it and ran it from Terminal window, so each Wiigee gesture will be routed to MAX/MSP to control stuff in the patch. The gesture can be routed to Processing (so if you gesture by drawing a circle, then the circle could appear, the accelerometer data could alter the radius, or use the gestures to trigger drums, sound files, midi etc) You could also re-route via AudioMulch, OSCulator, ChucK, CSound, Reaktor, vvvv etc, main problem with wiigee is that the gestures cannot be saved to disk, have not figured this out yet (also IR does not work), maybe the author of Wiigee will add this basic functionality, but it is a cool tool and demonstrates well how the Hidden markov model works. The wiimote is normally used for reading peak values on roll, pitch and yaw, but gesture reading can give so much more arbitrary possibilities.

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