Author: Binyan Xu

W8-pcomp-I2C/SCI

I finally knew why I felt so hard these three weeks.

The sensors/components I borrowed from NYUSH is quite different type from the one in the tutorial，most of them even do not use the same protocol.So I need to read their documents first rather than just follow the tutorial,even they look similar in appearance.

I2C Lab:

I followed the lab tutorial, but it didn’t work.It always said that apds is not defines.

 

Then I turn to use the code in example.The color one worked.

But not the gesture sensor and proximity sensor.I am quite sure that their connection is good, but nothing in serial monitor.

 

SPI Lab:

I lent a digital potentiometer from NYUSH.

It’s quite different from the one in lab tutorial and I am not sure whether it’s a SPI one. So I decided to try a barometric pressure sensor tomorrow.

 

project2 progress,

We learnt“HUE” in ICM this week，and I thought it’s so amazing.

I wanted to use“HUE” in my output.

My output with different interactive method:

analog:

https://editor.p5js.org/MagicMonkeyWow/sketches/y46OBjtop

digital/mouseclick:

https://editor.p5js.org/MagicMonkeyWow/sketches/pWMnugcYM

I haven’t decided which one to use.

My arduino and p5 have connection problem again, and I am trying to figure it out。

 

ICM-media W1 pixel

This week, finally my project is a Halloween mirror.

It runs sooooo slow.And I don’t know why.

At first, what I want to create is a festival mirror.I can change it into Halloween mood(purple and orange)/Christmas mood(red and white) and NYU mood(purple and white).

I tried function RADIO and PUSH/POP.But it cannot load out.

This is the one I wanted first,but it didn’t work.

https://editor.p5js.org/MagicMonkeyWow/sketches/UHRUbquUk 

I only keep one Halloween mirror finally.

 

Share one interesting thing,

I also stupidly want to use my partner’s photo to fill the pixel.

After a few times try,I finally realized that all photos would become black points when they are filled into  pixels.

W7-pcomp-project2 idea Violent Aesthetics

I am a sports lover and when I come to ITP, I hope to try some sports interactive experience, especially X-sports.

After project 1,I thought that maybe I can start now.I chose boxing this time.

During the quarantine time,I want to find a boxing game for my switch to do daily exercise.But I only find this one.

I can only practice boxing moves with a virtual coach and I found it’s kinda boring.

I want to do some sports that are more physically interactive. I love the feedback of boxing.

My project 2 ‘s name is Violent Aesthetics.

Input:

sensor in it:

option 1: force sensor. I’m not sure if I hit it too hard, whether I will damage the force sensor?Is there any solution?

If I put the force sensor in the boxing ball above, will it not sensitive enough?

option 2:gesture sensor (the one used for motion capture?)

Output:every hit will become a spray paint effect on p5.

You can draw an artwork by practicing boxing at home.

 

Advanced output I want:

I hope users will hear some dirty words when they hit the boxing ball.

The computer will calculate the total score according to the strength of the user hitting the boxing ball each time.

When the score reaches a certain value, “YOU WIN” will be displayed on the screen, and all dirty words will disappear.

Just like our real life, when someone denies you, continue to resist, the voice against you will eventually disappear.

I want to try midi to control this,but I’m not sure whether I can use midi well.

If not, at least I can upload audio in p5 to achieve this.

W6-pcomp-catchup

I followed the tutorial video.digital input works ,but analog input not.

 

Serial input

 

W7-pcomp-communication.

After following Danny’s lab in class last week,I felt more confident.

But I still have some problems connecting arduino and p5 and I have registered resident’s  office hour tomorrow to solve it.

Since I don’t have accelerometer ,I borrowed one from NYUSHANGHAI, and it’s quite different from the one in tutorial.

So I decided to use light transistor.

My arduino

my p5

It seems that they didn’t communicate.

 

W7VPD-character introduction

My character is a cyberpunk girl whose half body has been transformed to robot.

The last shot, I hope she smiles evilly.But I ran into some problems with facial capture.

The next scene is a bridge explosion, my character successfully escaped from prison with the help of her pet Dobby.

 

 

This is another shot I made, but I found it’s not suitable to be in the character introduction. 

 

Problems I met,

I got this character in market place and I really loved it!But she is not easy to use.

1.Her hair and skeleton are two arts and I finally cannot make her hair move with the animation.I tried to grout them / merge the actor/ and explored animation blueprint.

Wondering how can I do that ?

2.The format of this character is “uasset”.Google told me how to change them into “fbx”.But when I imported it into blender, it disappeared.I thought it maybe became a very very tiny character.

_________________👇not a problem below

3.I explored lots of assets in marketplace and other website(Sketchfab,Free 3D,Turbosquid,Unity Asset store) and I found that most of them are not real enough. Quixel bridge indeed has the best quality.

One interesting thing:

I got my desktop 5 days before and I only used it for VPD.Now it storage shows like this.😁Maybe I downloaded too much assets.

W6-ICM-MoneyRain

Thanks for the encouragement from Lisa’s email this week, it is very important to me.

Last weekend,I rewatched all the Code Train videos that we have watched before and followed to rewrite  the code.I felt better with code now.

This week,I wanted to make a “Gold Coin Rain” sketch，but I found it difficult to make gold coins look three-dimensional.Then I decided to use the image.

Till now,I didn’t know whether I can use images successfully.So I used random falling ellipse(as falling snow) to make my sketch first.

Then I changed the ellipses into images(my money bag).

Finally, it shows like this:

https://editor.p5js.org/MagicMonkeyWow/full/9kyj70Yj1

When you clicked one money bag, it would disappeared and your money shows on the screen increased.

I learned from Google how to increase the number of screen displays after each click.

 

There are some things I cannot solve:

1.How to have endless money bag falling down? Or how to have endless objects?

2.When I clicked one money bag, sometimes two disappeared.I learnt how to limit the mouseclick in a circle, but how to limit it in an image.

W5-VPD-Face capture

I spent some time on VPN and finally Todd told me that I didn’t need VPN at all.And I also spent some time on figuring out how plugin works. 

Build my no rig old lady.

 

It’s my first time to use blender ,so I also found some simple introduction video about the blender online.

 

 

 

My old lady’s neck also met some problems and when I added the hair, the neck problem disappeared.

 

But in Unreal,I finally found that I didn’t solve the neck problem.

 

Perhaps it’s because I didn’t separate the head, hands and feet? 

 

Before I imported my old lady into Mixamo, I cannot find my old lady’s texture anywhere.I’m not sure whether I lost them in Blender or anywhere else.