Month: September 2021

The concept of “fluidity of the digital” stems from the fact that our current technology has progressed at such a rapid pace that the most accurate way of capturing images – photographs – is no longer a reliable source. That is, to say, that photos can be edited extremely easily now. This means that reality… Read more In Our Own Image Response

Derek Eng, G.O.A.T, Polyphia Concept and Design For this project I used the expansion aspect of Gestalt theory, where I implied that there was more outside of the frame by drawing lines that led out of the page. This gave the print more depth. In addition, I used a lot of the splitting theory with… Read more Sound Visualization Project

For our Pioneer Plaque, we chose to do emojis. In order to communicate the concept of emojis, we chose to put two more realistic human faces on the page and then associated them with the simpler emoji faces using arrows. For the emotions, we chose a simple happy and sad. Then, in the middle of… Read more Pioneer Plaque

How do aliens in the story using language and communication style different from the human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)? They communicate using “flutters” which are best interpreted on a spectrograph. In addition, they write using a logographic system which means they communicate using characters, like Chinese. One of the more interesting parts of the… Read more Story of Your Life Reflection

Here is the link to my project: https://editor.p5js.org/Derek-W-Eng/sketches/GaIcFWT6O   For this recitation, we were tasked with using p5.js to draw a sketch that we previously drew on paper. My sketch and its inspiration photograph were: From these, I was able to code this image: The coding was nothing special, I utilized the “rect” “line” “quad” and… Read more Creating Coding Lab Recitation 1