Author: Vivian

I ran into trouble when I try coding. First I thought to make the three pics glow/disappear by sequence. Though I know the function, i don’t really know how to make the same button do different things. 

Hence I turned to the professor in class, she taught me to use the opacity instead. My teammate helped me to correct the codes, yet for some reason I still could not make it move.

During the weekend, I kept on progressing on the comic project, while gaining inspiration from it as well as the online websites for my recitation exercise. I adapted it by using simple symbols in replace of long sentences of instructions, in order to make the coding clearer. However, I still could not make it function well. So far I could only make the first step: let the first pic dimmed and the second pic glowed. See below:

Here is the codes I have, I really hope I could make it through next week after discussing with the TA.

Introduction:

Sebastian and I had the idea of creating a comic based on Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry “Medusa”, which illustrates a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair in Greek mythology. It goes with a storyline which set the audience/the viewer to be a poet Carol Ann Duffy herself. We figured this idea out by looking for our common interests, as Sebastian and I share really different cultures and family background. Turns out we both like anime, poetry and mysterious things. More details regarding what we imagine our project will look like can be found in the text below.

Storyboard:

• You are a poet and you fell asleep when you were writing some lines on the poetry…
• The stage switches from your home towards a narrow room, decorated as from mid-century in Greek, with sundries piling up around you.
• You tried to find out who you are,  hence you began clicking on the things all around you…
• Certain objects, when clicked, will change into other things, with some lines brought up (exactly some part of poetry you wrote before you slept). 
• Through this process, you will finally become aware that you are the Medusa herself.

Illustrations:

• We are sure how to use the coding techniques to make everything happen. It’s only a matter of how now.
• We will draw the scene and also find images of real objects to support our stage.

Java:

• We are using Javascript to move the story along, especially the part where the audience is able to interact with things around him or her.

Link: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~zz1224/comlab/index.html

Here is my profile page, where I have a very brief introduction about myself.  I changed the layout of my profile quite much from the Week1 edition, in order to make it more fancy. Besides following the previous lectures’ knowledge of designing a webpage, I also used other tags like “background pic” and create buttons for the page, and used “text-shadow” to make the text looks clearer. 

The title of my page is “Something About Me”. Then I arranged four buttons to archive details about myself. I will link them to other pages I created later. Below the buttons is the motto of my life: “We think things from what we are, not what they are.” This sentence hits me because it makes me think about the things around myself: do I vision them from my egoistic perspective or they are right the things as they are? This confusion keeps me to explore the world. 

The photo is positioned at the center with a border filled with gradient colors of white and gray. I made the text at the very end simply, because I just want to give audience a hint what they will find on my website.

However, during the process of building this page, there are two challenges or problems that I bumped into and which haven’t been solved. Firstly, I tried to link “my portfolio” site to my profile page, but somehow it doesn’t work. Secondly, though there is a “button” tag which could be directly used in HTML, somehow it doesn’t work and I had to change it into <div> to create buttons (hence making an underline in each text in the buttonbox).