Archive for March, 2009
Interface Sketches for Joules
Nothing solid yet (not even the name), just some sketches Peter and I made…
Mira– Animal as Subject
Following on our Animal as Object assignment for Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create another piece adopting the point of view of our chosen animal. Here’s the project brief: 5. Animal Subject Due date: Mar 24 Format: pdf or other form (paper, film, web site) AND character model sheet (pdf) [...]
InformationOverlord
Sometimes keeping up with all of the reading I’d like to do leaves me crushed by information overload, so for Programming A to Z this week I built a simple program to tell me whether or not I should bother reading a given document. Our assignment was to augment, modify, or replace one of our [...]
Modern Heirlooms
In If Products Could Speak… we’re starting to develop concepts for sustainable product designs. Right now we’re working out the goals of our projects. I’m developing a proposal for a for-profit social venture that has two main goals: it aims to decrease waste by providing affordable access to heirloom-quality items, and it aims to provide [...]
Use Desire as an Anchor
Over Spring Break we had two assignments to finish for Programming A to Z. The first was to modify, augment, or create a program based on our in-class examples of context-free grammars. I originally planned to create a grammar for walking– some sort of computer-generated dérive– but the weather hasn’t been particularly conducive to walking. [...]
Menagerie 2: A2z Midterm Code
This is the code for the main class of our creature-maker: import java.util.HashMap; HashMap words = new HashMap(); String[] lines; String oneLine; String animalName; PImage head;
Menagerie 2: A2Z Midterm
Bryan Lence and I developed a creature-maker for our Programming A to Z midterm. We based the program on a simple context-free grammar defining our animal structures, and applied that grammar to a Processing sketch based on Adam Parrish’s ContextFilter. Each click of the mouse while the sketch is running assembles a new animal assembled [...]
Mira– Character Study
For Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create another character study, this time based on research of a real animal. I chose Mira, one of the first dogs to be cloned from a pet. She lives in Mill Valley, CA, with the owner of BioArts International (previously Genetic Savings & Clone), [...]
Mira– Animal as Object
For Animals<>People we were asked to create a piece looking at a specific animal as an object. Here’s the project brief: 4. Animal Object Due date: Mar 3 Format: pdf or other form (paper, film, web site) AND character model sheet (pdf) This assignment is a combination of research, character development and implmentation of a [...]