When I was a kid, I would be super hapy when I found a dandelion alongside the street. I would always pick up the dandalion, make a wish, and blow the seeds away. Watching the seeds floating into the air, I had this feeling that something magical was happening. For my final project, I wanted to create a virtual dandelion which could let me experience the joy again.

 

To start off, I used Teachable Machine to build an image classification model which can recognize if I am blowing or not. Then I imported the model into my p5 sketch to classify my webcam video, and used the result to trigger the movement of the dandelion seeds. To make the result more accurate, I created a variable to count how many times the result is "blow". When its value equals 6, the outer seeds will first be blown away; when it equals 50, the middle seeds will be blown away; and when it equals 100, the inner seeds will be blown away. I also added a background music and some chime sound effects to make the experience more fun.