Infinite Loop Web Cast at ever smaller scales

[Nahee_Enterprises]

Someone was doing a live web cast, using a camera, a computer, and the application running live at the time.  They decided to see what happens when one points the camera at the monitor during the live web cast:

    http://www.noob.us/humor/live-webcast-fail/

I saw some indication that this was originally from:  http://www.4playerpodcast.com/

And I found another version of the same on YouTube:
     <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/et_MmlTxMXA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/et_MmlTxMXA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>
 

[Timeroot]

I've done similar things in the past, where I plug a digital camera into my TV for a live feed, and then move the camera around. It's like twisting around inside a tunnel...

I'm interested in the pulsing "tones" that it started producing. I suppose these were the only attractor under iteration of the feedback loop. If their network speeds were varying widely, I wonder if they could have observed some types of hysteresis... 

[cKleinhuis]

in fact you can generate julia shapes with moving the camera around and recording what you are outputting

[Nahee_Enterprises]

    in fact you can generate julia shapes with moving the camera around and
    recording what you are outputting   

Got any examples worth displaying here??

[kram1032]

fractal video feedback is awesome
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/uzzktnjKkVg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/uzzktnjKkVg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

In your case up there, it was audio feedback aswell... That's more rare. I guess, it's because that gets a mess quickly and doesn't sound as pleasing as video feedback looks.

[matsoljare]

There are plenty of examples of video feedback on Youtube otherwise. I discovered some interesting effects myself, using various processing features of the webcam i have, but i haven't gotten around to putting any of it up yet. Maybe you'll see something soon.

[Calcyman]

You only get a fractal with two or more screens. Otherwise, you merely have a recursive image with a single pathological point.

Specifically, each screen corresponds to a projective transformation (not necessarily affine), and the result is a system similar to Barnsley's IFS fractals. You could, for example, create a fern with four screens strategically positioned.

[matsoljare]

Finally uploaded some examples i made myself, using the effects of the webcam software that came with it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/b-WnVp7iZKE&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/b-WnVp7iZKE&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XjMCZE9wFpQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/XjMCZE9wFpQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/jw-sOIv2lqk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/jw-sOIv2lqk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>