Just did a design research project at my college. I chose to get on with some microphone and webcam experiments.
The idea was to make some kind of app where users generate some abstract audio visual content. The logic is similar to a guestbook but the input is more crazy than the normal name, subject, message format.
The first file was a test on sound recording and using the values to manipulate a graphic object in this case just a simple circle.
When Flash 8 was released I remember doing some files on capturing still images from a movieclip and then I wondered of to do other things.. But for this idea of user generated graphics this issue pops up again when using a webcam. I think Craig Swann showed something like this at OFFF but anyway I made some testing on crapping stills from the camera over time. The this version is taking 20 pixel chunks.
This all leads to a file where I try to combine the different components in order to generate a flower from sound or math and images (captured from webcam over time).
Anyway try it here
Also got a full project page here and some screenshots taken from a demo for some friends.
The future for this project is a series of installations where projecting the piece on to walls around London at night as a visual comment about CCTV.