DEMO
WHAT IS IT?
Light Paint Live is a webcam program that lets you paint with light!
This program is great for amateur and professional light-painters alike. Amateurs can use it to experiment with light painting without having to buy an expensive camera, and pros can use it as a heads-up display for their DSLR camera. It shows the picture developing in real-time!
Many people are unfamiliar with light painting, but it’s been around since the early 1900’s! Read more about the history at LightPaintingPhotography.com
For a more verbose description, see Joerg Miedza's post about realtime light-art.
FLAVORS
LPL MERCURY

Chrome app
Uses GPU processing for extremely fluid light-painting. It functions offline so you can shoot in remote locations! Try the
alpha version for a taste of what you'll get in the app.
FEATURES

1. MAIN CONTROLS
Start / stop button will start or stop capturing a painting. Key-control: SPACEBAR.Light-sensitivity slider controls amount of light captured per frame - similar to ISO. Key-control: UP / DOWN ARROWS.
2. EDIT CONTROLS
Undo / redo buttons will do just that. Key-controls: CTRL+Z, CTRL+Y.New button makes a new painting. Key-control: CTRL+N.
Save button will save an image or video to the users desktop. Key-control: CTRL+S.
3. SCREEN CONTROLS
Fullscreen button makes application go into fullscreen mode.Toggle preview button turns live preview on or off. Key-control: ENTER.
4. PAINTING OPTIONS
Countdown activates a slider that controls how long to delay capture after the start button is pressed.Video underlayer checkbox enables a live video preview underneath the light canvas.
Light range checkbox activates sliders that control the range of light that is captured.
Limit brightness checkbox prevents painting from exceeding natural light values. Also has a slider for increasing the threshold.
Fade checkbox activates a slider that controls how fast the painting fades away.
Color shift activates sliders that shift the red, green, and blue color channels.
5. WEBCAM OPTIONS
Camera selector lets user pick which webcam to use.Capture size selector determines the dimensions of the image.
Target frame-rate slider determines the maximum rate of capture.
6. RECORDING OPTIONS
Recording options were experimental, and have been removed to improve speed7. VIEW OPTIONS
Dim controls checkbox dims the controls during painting.TIPS
To improve LPL’s performance, you can do a couple of things.
1. Close any other open programs.
2. Use a lower resolution capture size. Less pixels means more speed!
3. Buy a processor with a lot of cores.
LPL uses Pixel Bender to process incoming frames. Pixel Bender splits the workload evenly between all available processor cores. The more cores your processor has, the smoother the painting will be!
RESOURCES
Macam - Various webcam drivers for Mac.
Webcam Settings - webcam controller software for Mac.
Split Cam - Play video files through the webcam.