February 2024

Assignment 1: Feel My Menstrual Cycle

In this assignment, we produced a light program to show the menstrual cycle. We showed the ovum state and the body feeling by the light motions and colors. When exploring the code, there are some new finds. We used “distance()” to create a circle according to a certain point. We tried wide use of the Continue reading Assignment 1: Feel My Menstrual Cycle

Mini Project 4: Generative Landscapes & Patterns

Link link 1 (page 1-6) Link 2 (page 7-9) Brief Description In this mini-project, I produced three groups of patterns, and they were all based on the repeating rectangles that start from the right-up corner. In the first group, I changed the number of repeats. In the second group, I added some random rectangles in Continue reading Mini Project 4: Generative Landscapes & Patterns

Artistic Inspiration Research-About Karl Sim’s Virtual Creatures

Introduction Karl Sim produced a series of virtual creatures that can move and behave in a simulated world of physics. He was inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution. Organisms produce undirected variation. When they face pressure to survive, the dominant side is selected and allowed to reproduce. In Sim’s program, he tested each virtual block Continue reading Artistic Inspiration Research-About Karl Sim’s Virtual Creatures

Reading Reflection 1: Light and Space

The first two articles emphasized the combination of light and environment. Artists no longer only study how to emit distinctive light, but how the light echoes the surrounding environment, and how to use the environment to enrich the artistic effect of light. The audience is contained in a magnetic field composed of light and environment Continue reading Reading Reflection 1: Light and Space