I attended Flash Camp this past weekend at Adobe San Francisco, with three other frogs (Ming-En Cho, Jose Hernando, & Rod Graves). The four of us formed a team and started playing with some of the new features in Flash 10. We had a lot of ideas ranging from 3D visualizations that where dynamically driven by music to interactive sound using your webcam. Finally we settled on the latter as the direction for our hackathon project. Shortly later we were able to rope in an old coleague/friend of mine, Justin Patrin to join our team. Together we built Flash Tones (named by Rod Graves), which ended up winning “Best Audio”.

Flash Tones lets you create ‘music’ by moving around in front of your webcam. Movement on the X axis controls pitch, and the Y axis controls volume. When movement occurs the difference in pixels is calculated, which is used to drive the pitch and volume. The color of those pixels represent the location of the movement along the x axis. The white blurred squares also show the location of the movement by changing their z depth based on how close they are to the center of the movement.

Created by: Greg Arroyo, Ming-En Cho, Jose Hernando, Rod Graves & Justin Patrin.

Source: Flash Tones
Requires Flash Player 10

Justin Patrin was nice enough to clean up the code and create a project on Google Code.  Check it out, play with it, extend it, and share it.