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This is application that displays random, most interesting photos from Flickr. For each photo the application searches for a YouTube video that matches the photo’s tags and plays the sound from the YouTube video. Basically the application created a soundtrack for a photo being viewed.

I had to create a database of suitable photo tags for searching videos on YouTube. Most tags in Flickr photos are specific to photographs only like color, camera models and photography techniques. I had to hand-pick the tags that would be appropriate for YouTube video tags.

I created this app as a project for my application to Ryerson University. The interface is kinda weak, I was tight on time when I made it. I am planning on creating a cooler interface for this. Maybe something with 3d, a sound spectrum and an option to view the actual video that the sound is taken from.

With all this augmented reality hype I decided to try it out by doing an experimental project. What I ended up building is was 6 3D cubes animated to music following the AR (Augmented Reality) marker in 3D world. You can view the project here but you will need to print out the marker (or go to http://maxtherocket.com/marker.png on your iPhone) and you also need a webcam. So once you print out the marker (cut out the marker so the paper doesn’t bend as much) point your webcam on the marker and launch the project. The music will start playing once the application can recognize the marker and the cubes will dance around in the 3D world.

For this project I’ve used the following AS3 libraries:
FLAR Toolkit
FLAR Manager
Papervision 3D

Download the source code for this project