Stick Figure Simulator

by Andy Khuu and Lydia Chan

Stick Figure Simulator is a lenses through which you can see yourself as a stick figure! Based on our love for stick figures and animations, this project allows you to become a stick figure in a fun and interactive way - it's like being in your own comic.

We used a thermal camera from Adafruit in order to track the motion of the user, based on the person's head and arms, and draw them as a stick figure in the frame. The player can interact with on-screen elements, like balls falling from the sky. But it's game over if they are hit.

Below is a breakdown of what each of us designed and created for this project:

Both

• Interface with thermal camera through I2C protocol

• Implement motion and redrawing of game elements

• Integrate all parts

  

Andy

• Interpolation of thermal camera data from 8x8 to 29x29

• Game mechanics: element boundaries and collision detection

  

Lydia

• Stick Figure: heuristic head and arm detection from camera data

• Graphics: rendering lines, circles, and stick figure

  

Sources

• We used the I2C driver in the CS107E library.

• The circle-drawing algorithm is based the Mid-Point Circle Drawing Algorithm from GeeksforGeeks.