Author: jl9546

Is it better to kill 100 innocent men because there is a possibility that there might be one criminal among them, or is it better to let go 100 guilty men because there is a possibility that there might be an innocent man among them? In the movie “Twelve Angry Men”, the humane spirit of America is highly praised. It is believed that a man is innocent when he cannot be proved guilty and therefore no punishment can be put on him. However, in the case of Adnan, he was accused of murder and put into prison simply because a testimony of a friend of him and that he cannot be proved innocent. I don’t think is this the right way to deal with this case. Because we only live once and it is really unfair that a young man is deprived of his freedom for a crime that he “might” have committed. It is true that a young girl died of murder and this is also extremely “not fair” for her. However, does this mean that we have to find out a person to bear this crime, and it doesn’t matter who? Our rationality makes us believe that for every cause there must be a reason and for every problem there must be an answer. However, we have to admit that our ability is limited and it’s impossible for us to find the answers to all the problem. And it is certainly not right to sacrifice the future of a young man in order to satisfy our sense of rationality.

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jc8017/Project3/start.html

After decided that we are going to make a room escape game, the first thing we did was designing our plot. At first, we made the plot quite complicated, but latter we realized that the coding would be too advanced for me and Steve and the work load would be incredibly huge. So, we simplified the plot a little bit without altering the essence of the whole game.

Then we used photoshop to make the background of our game room. At first, we wanted to just use the 4 walls of the group study room in the school library as our background. But after seeing the photo we took of the group study room, we decided not to use the whole wall, instead we just cropped out some elements we need (posters, dB machine, door, windows etc.) and abandoned the rest of the things. We tried to find a nice picture of wall on the Internet but failed, so we just drew a wall by ourselves and put all the elements on the wall we drew.

We decided to put every element in one picture since it is more complicated to move a picture around over another picture. Other than that, we didn’t encounter much difficulties when coding. Justin is really good at coding, so most of the time I just sat beside him and watch how he coded. I think that’s also a great way of learning and I learned a lot from him and Steve.

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jl9546/walking/index.html

We discussed our story plot in detail and designed our scenes and we planned to firstly see if the basic function that we want our comic to have works, and add fancy stuffs afterwards. We don’t want to be over ambitious.

For the interactive part and the function of our comic, Justin did some testing with some Javascript and managed to draw some shapes which can be used as points where users can click on and interact with.

For the visual assets, Steve and I took some pictures in the group study rooms which can be used as our background and items in our scene. We also found some images on the Internet and cropped the items with photoshop so that we can add them to our background to make the full scene of a group study room in which the user will start exploring.

We are planning to combine our stuff together on Friday and see if we could add more plot or visual effect on to the comic.

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jl9546/inclassExercise/cat.html

This is a quite interesting exercise. At first I feel like that I needed some time to adjust to the syntax of Javascript since I had just gotten used to CSS. After knowing what’s going on, it’s not very difficult to make the cat dance. I tried to change the style of my buttons, so I asked Dr. google. Then I added a background image. At first, the size of the image didn’t fit the size if the page. So the image was repeated four times in order to fill the whole page. I wanted my background to have only one image, so I googled again and changed the size of the image to “100% 100%”. Then the image filled the whole background, problem was solved.