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CPD：Progress Report for May 7–Candy and Maike(Ann)

Link of draft two:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzJeDNVZpjmqhWsOaCBHIqQX8DYONcu4ktDJEBlLtsg/edit

What we have done:

This week, we developed more on the draft one. We started to write while thinking about how and when  we will use sound effects and background music. Space is created for sound effects. Considering the feedbacks we got, more informational details of the North Atlantic right whale are added. For example, the three different sounds they make and the meaning behind it:

Like humans, these whales are social animals. The upcall is used by whales to announce their presence.     Gunshots are used by males to threaten other males, and find mates.      And the scream is used by females to build and maintain groups.

We also decided to map the project in Lujiazui and write the script based on that. Given that neither of us has been there before, street names and landmarks are not added yet will be added very soon. And we still need to add an ending.

Maike did a demo record of the intro part so that audience could understand more about the tone and the general feeling of this project.

Next Step:

Both Maike and I will go to the place. Given that we can not find a time that work for both of us. Maike will go on Wednesday to do some recordings and decide on the exact route of the project. I will go on Thursday with her recording to see what works and what doesn’t and have the rest of raw recordings we need finished.

On the weekend, Maike will do the recording of voice over and I will work on the editing. We will have the draft audio done before Monday.

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Kinetic Light: Final Project Proposal–Eric(Candy)

Perspective and Context:

In the article of Century of Kinesthesia, the author discuss the “field of abstraction” in which he refers to several conceptual artwork that do not try to explain something beyong what it is.  “Object with red ball “, for example, plays around with things in the universe, which is “obviously models of universe”. How artworks are valued is based on the feelings conveyed rather than over interpretation.

Alexander Calder

In the section of “Lineal and cyclical(or speed and stability)”, GuyBrett talks about the instability revealed through time and speed, which he refers to as “one of the achievements of  kinetic light”. “Kinetic” and “sculpture” seems to have a charm when are are combined together.

Esther Stocker

Esther Stocker is an Italian Artist who is really good at visualizing the concept of space through basic shapd like rects and lines. I like the way he simply place several rects on the black board and gives space to imagination and feelings of real time. The different layer of the rects gives an intention of moving while being static.

Project Description:

Inspired by these concepts and artists, I got the idea of building a sculpture integrating both the idea of “abstration art” and “time and speed”. The project is intended to be self-explaining and intriguing with its movement and basic shape of rects.

The project would be of a wall scale. It would be two-layered with the bottom layer of light source and the top layer of lots of rectangles forming a puzzle plane to prevent the light. Each rect would be conneted to the bottom layer through springs and would also be connected to the soldnoids. The soldnoids would then be coded to push the rects out of its puzzle plane and then allows light to shine out around the shape of the rect being pushed out. The time and speed of pushing out the rects would be somewhat random. Which rects would be pushed out would also be unexpected by the audience. There would not be any music except for the sound of soldnoids.

Production Schedule

  • 04/30 (tue) – Material preparation+draft test
  • 05/02 (thu) – Physical part developing(finish the physical part by the end of the week )
  • 05/07 (tue) – Light testing
  • 05/09 (thu) – Adjusting(have the model finished by the end of the week)
  • 05/14 (tue) – Pre-Final Critique
  • 05/16 (thu) – Project 3 Presentation
  • 05/23 (thu) – Project 3 Blog Post Due
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Nature of Code: Week 10 assignment–Moon(Candy)

Documented by: Candy Bi

Project name: “P5″

Professor: Moon

Date: 4/23/2019

Link: https://editor.p5js.org/candy/present/Fa4vDtNzZ

Video: w10 final

This week we learn about “Atonomous Agency”. I feel that this could be a great way to do the effect I have seen long time ago: lots of particles make up some text, and when mouse hover onto it, the particles would be scattered and would go back to where they should be when mouse leaves.

Sinece this project is made in p5, I decide to make the particles writing “p5”. I first drew the “p5” through pushing the particles as several rectangle shape.

Through later Skye said it looks like “ps”, I feel that it works quite well.

Then I try to map the force accoding to particles’ current position and their original position and apply the force to each particle.

A red dot is used as an object whose position is set according to the mouse position. The red dot is used as the target for particles to check.

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Nature of Code: Week 9 assignment–Moon(Candy)

Documented by: Candy Bi

Project name: Spring

Professor: Moon

Date: 4/16/2019

Link: https://editor.p5js.org/candy/present/Fa4vDtNzZ

Video: spring

The project of Spring is developed based on the demo we did in class. Instead of having two balls as objects. I created a class called balls and pushes them over the whole canvas. Each is connected to the two balls connected to it which I called “spring”. These lines would create force onto the balls they are connecting.

Then I add the function to check collision so that balls would feel more natural as with a mass. Collision checking and spring force then add to the interesting dynamic of those balls together.

For the interaction part, I keep the drag function and made the ball being dragged white so that it would be more clear to audience. Additionally, I add the function of key-pressed for sometimes drag is hard to control: balls would just fly away when mouse moves too fast out of the ball. The key-pressed function is only functioned on the first ball in the class to allow for free movements create by those springs.