What does Ritchie mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. In the new edition In Our Own Image, professor Fred Ritchie brought up the idea of “fluidity of the digital”. “One could say that we were entering the ‘post-photographic age’ in the sense that the… Read more In Our Own Image(foreword&last chapter): reading response
In short fiction story Story of your life, Ted Chiang introduces us to a group of aliens who use a language system that is totally different from ours. The biggest difference comes in the written part. While the human language uses a sentence that has a clear start and end, theirs join everything together:”looked more… Read more Reading response: Story of your life
Cinematic workout studio This is a projected stick-practice game that allows people who practice martial arts, to not hurt themselves during exercise. However I also wonder the mechanism of this work: how can it be so fluent? How can this be such an immersive environment(it seems to have projection all over the room, not just… Read more Final proposal draft
B. Projects that inspire; why they are successful and how they inform my idea The interactive stair: Interactivity “Our final product is an array of Do-It-Yourself pressure sensors that can measure how much force is placed on them as someone takes a step. This array is placed on the floor for demonstration purposes, but it… Read more Final project: Preparatory Research and Analysis
Recitation 6: Processing Animation Recitation Exercise Let’s animate! Instructions: Integrate the coding elements from this week’s classes to create an interactive animation in Processing: should include some level of interaction (i.e. keyboard or mouse). Take a video of your interactive animation, and upload it along with your code. We are all ｆａｍｉｌｉａｒ ｗｉｔｈ ｈｏｗ ｇｏｏｄ ｈｅ ｉｓ ａｔ Ｔｅｌｅｐｏｒｔ， ｔｈｅ enderman． … Read more Recitation 6: Processing Animation &Documentation by Wendy S
Wendy & Sarah Process documentation We first come up with an idea. Since Arduino is basically an environment that transforms in-between inputs and outputs, in the form of lights/sounds, we decide to make something LEDed. Here is the car prototype we made with scrap cardboard. We made it a base and planned to tie LED… Read more Midterm Post-Mortem
Source of inspiration User cases Theoretical foundation Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something… Read more Midterm Project: Research
Recitation 3: Sensors Recitation Exercise For this recitation’s exercise, please choose one of the sensors listed below and read about what it is and how it performs. Build a circuit that integrates this sensor with your Arduino. Use the data (input) from your sensor to drive an output (Servo-motor, LEDs, Buzzer, etc.). Document the finished… Read more Recitation 3: Sensors &Documentation by Wendy S
Recitation 5: Processing Basics Recitation Exercise For today’s exercise, you will be working alone to draw an image in Processing based on any image that inspires you. Step 1: Choose an image to be your motif I thought of making Minecraft avatars because they are initially pixel characters. I’m picking orange as the background color… Read more Recitation 5: Processing Basics &Documentation by Wendy S
This is the most risky recitation ever: I might either explode my computer, or burn myself. But this is also the most interesting recitation ever: We(Me and my partner Ray) managed to build a “drawing machine”! Goal: To learn to build mechanical arms that are controlled by stepper motors with an H-bridge. Again, it is… Read more Recitation 4: Drawing Machine &Documentation by Wendy S
