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This week I switched idea from the gesture initially to this traditional Chinese minority group dance – 花腰傣(Flower Waist Dai People). The Dai dance nowadays differs from traditional Dai dance, incorporating many modern dance adaptations. So instead of simply making the traditional Dai people costume, I made it more like a modern Dai dancer costume. … Continue reading [Mocap] Week 2: Character Design
What role does movement play in your own life or communities that you are part of? Movements play an important role mostly all the time in people’s lives. The Eastern culture that I grow up with promotes a relatively restrained way of behaving. Thus, to me, movements are more of a way to express feelings … Continue reading [Mocap] Week1
In this assignment, I used my water bottle as the input and keyed it out as a flashlight to simulate the player lighting up the scene in horror games. I played around with chroma key, level and blur TOPs to create this effect. Continue reading [PPP] Week2: Flashlight
Project Description This project is a physicalization of neural network and neural impulsion. It is basically built based on a metal cube frame, two 15m red El wires, and 6 solenoids. I am a fan of giving material a sense of “alive”, so I made simple, subtle, and random movement just like they are alive. … Continue reading Kinetic Light: Project3 – Glitch
For assignment5, we made a pixel style wave using multiple acrylic board and linear actuators. We strung the same rectangular acrylic boards together with two long rubber bands. Then, we made the linear actuators to move up and down alternatively to create this wave-like style movement. Initially, we wanted to make all the … Continue reading Week5: Wave
Cam – Can you Kill the Mosquito Crank — The Myth of Sisyphus Gear – Running Jerry This assignment, we tried to come up with some interesting theme and make the mechanism based on the given karakuri blue print. When I was making the Sisyphus using crank. Initially, since the body and … Continue reading Assignment4: Karakuri
Machine Art was symbolizing the advanced tech development and modern era, always relating to Constructivism and Futurism. People appreciate the beauty, strength and energy of the machine. But then the term Machine Art evolved — people started appreciating the machine made product withought considering its practical use, but only considering the aesthetic appearance. As Machine … Continue reading Reading Reflection2: Machine Art & Kinetic Art
Project Description This project is a picture of Chinese Apsaras embroidered on canvas with El wires. With programming to make it light up/fade, it creates a short light performance when connecting with power. Light wires are often associated with hardcore and emerging techonology. However, I was thinking of the possibilities of combining of light and … Continue reading Kinetic Light: Project2 – Apsaras
In this assignment, we used 3 DMX PAR lights to create a light composition. Since our light is not able to move, and we have 3 of them, we thought of making a composition simply playing with placing lights in different positions in the space. Then we thought of the traditional Chinese sundial, where … Continue reading Assignment3: Sundial
Plane Rotation Movement: Initially, we used the Unity physics engine to do the rotation movement, adding centripetal force to the plane. However, only using the “add force” method makes the movement hard to control when put into practice. So we found a simpler and easy-to-understand way — applying the transform function to do the … Continue reading 2D Game Progress Report