After struggle with all server things(servi,cyberduck,terminal), finally, successfully set up my server. And I wrote a page to introduce my assignment in ITP. My webpage is here!
Reading Assignment- Class1 Network Media
This week’s reading material was so hard for me to understand! I found out it was a article from 1945, no wonder it was not easy to try to decode his ideas. However, I tried my best to relate.One thing the author claimed is that recording is very important for science. I totally agree with that. How are we suppose to store what we have learnt and communicate it to other people if there is no method of recording? How can we even learn things from the past without recording tools? It is very interesting to read what the author wished back in 1945 from now. He mentioned about the value of photography. It is easy for us to copy and print materials in library today, not to mention we are using CMOS in cameras. He must be very jealous! I really want to show him our world today! Imagine if he see how Internet works. Some of his anticipations and ideas sound really like the prototype of computer and other digital stuffs today. And some conceptions sound really like how our network system is working today. More important, the author realized that it is not hard to provide a good concept, but it really matters can it be practical enough to be produced in a large number. I found the author’s idea and the way he look and think about the world very inspiring to me. Although I still don’t fully understand everything he tried to express there, I understand it is important for designers to think bravely and to look far than anyone else. It is important to be visionary.
Ink wash painting－ICM Class7 Assignment
[embed]https://vimeo.com/110253493[/embed] This week’s assignment is about VideoLearning Processing Video Chapter and Image Learning Processing Image Chapter in Processing. Dealing with pixels and try to change color, brightness, 3D deepness , or pick special element in screen, add elements in video or image to change the original one.
It seems like we can have a lot of fun through the process. I chose Image changing for this assignment’s topic.
I learned ink painting when I was a little kid, and I like the style of Tie Dye in traditional color craft. I want to mixture these kinds of traditional art with digital method. So I try to make an Tie Dye pattern to simulate Chinese Ink wash painting.
I learned particle system, how to add force, how to add motions in these previous weeks. So I use these technics to make this sketch. I built a particle system, and draw lines when two particle getting closed. When the particle was influenced by power between them and run(shake) all the time, they will draw some lines through one particle. (each one check itself’s distance with others)
Painting <Fu Chun Shan Ju Tu> was used as image in this sketch. It’s an outstanding ink wash painting which drew by Huang Guangwang in Yuan dynasty.
Octopus3-ICM Class7 Assignment
[embed]https://vimeo.com/110162921[/embed] I have dealing with octopus for three weeks! see what I did in last two weeks--Week 5 Octopus and Week 6 Octopus2, and finally it can move now! Although it still can not generate tentacle by itself...
I used an individual class to create each tentacle. And I used a lot of lines to combine its head.Then I created an Octopus Class to put tentacles and headlines together to generate an octopus.
And I think the next step is add more motions to it.
Octopus2-ICM Week6 Assignment
[embed]https://vimeo.com/110150069[/embed]
Conception for Final project (unfinished)
After Midterm project week, 50+projects born from ITP in last two weeks. I have seen a lot of clever ideas and great jobs. It's soooo amazing, especially when you witness these projects come out. However, I discovered that there was no project totally ‘original’ so far, seems like it's quite difficult to come up with some ideas that no one thinks about it before T^T..Maybe we should focus more attention on details, good interactions with users as well as elegant visual effect? I had a brainstorm for my final project, but still unfinished, not so satisfied with the ideas so I'm still working on finding good ideas...
1. Mushroom boskage
I like mushrooms so much, but there's not so many opportunities for me to see it. So I want to create a group of mushrooms. I want to explore the relationship between human and plants, the way we communicate with plants. How they communicate in their group? How our behaviors affect them? how they affect us in feedback?
In this way, I want to create a mushroom family, Mom protects their childrens. They may affect each other, as well as they can be affected by audience at the same time.
1.Detect the people getting closed.--Mushroom mum open its head and LED in it turn on to be light to protect its children.
-Kinect or Distance sensor for detecting
-Servo to make mushroom mom open.
-Photosensor for detecting light change
2.Find small things
I'm not sure if there is product like this has appeared in the market. I want to make a product like this when I was a freshman. I'm the one who lost things all the time. especially when it's time to leave home. Can't find glasses,.. keys..notebooks....So I want to make this kind of product to help me find those things.
I want to make a small gadget to do main things, and make something like tags on those small things. When press the button on main gadget like 'find key', the tag on key will make a sound to help you find. A location on the screen will be even better.. The problem is I'm not good at High-tech things, still haven't got clearly thoughts about how to figure it out. May be use bluetooth or infrared to connect the tags and the main controller gadget.. Anyway , It seems like it's not so 'PCOM' things...
3. Singing bathing cap
How many people will sing when they take a shower? Using power sensor or temperature sensor in the cap will make different notes when water droplet falls on the cap.
4.How it taste?
I have done a project before to explore synaesthesia experience of human beings. It's really interesting and I received different feedback from users. How different organs' generate different feelings when face something. We think red is enthusiasm， and most people think apple juice taste enthusiasm and full of energy too (according to the questionnaire) So when we change the color in paintings to drinks, how is it taste, will we have the same emotional experience or same feelings. How about the songs? when we meet a sad song or happy song, how it taste? How about drawing things???
5，Be a Chameleon
I think Chameleon is a kind of very cool animal, really admire the skill- changing colors with the environment. So I want to do these cool things too. Using phone to take a picture of the color you want, the LED on your clothes will change color according to the picture you've take.
6. Colorful pen
As a designer, always want colors of particular things in life, but it's difficult to make the same color. So I want to make a pen , which can detect color , and use the ink of three-primary colors to make the corresponding color.
Octopus－ICM Class5 Assignment
<Pressed to draw a octopus. Pressed Key to clean the screen>
This week, we learned Array, ArrayList , PVector and I used these new knowledge I learned to create a group of octopus. I used PVector to made the tentacles of octopus. I used several circles to compose its tentacles, put all circles in an ArrayList, and made them generated one by one when you click the mouse on the Screen, just like the octopus grow its tentacles.
I didn't write it very well, because when the mouse drag it, the program think the mouse still pressed it, and continue to generate octopus. That's not the things I suppose before, so I 'll just rewrite the code and hope it works in better way.
Sound Cycle
[embed]https://vimeo.com/107853867[/embed] I made this video by processing. I used Minim library to detect sound beat. And make an beat reaction in visual way. I used PeasyCam to control the 3D cameral.
It's an experiment for our midterm PCOM+ICM project. It's the visual parts for the project, making the visual graphics changed based on music. And then is just trying to make it change according to live sounds. Hope it will be a right direction for our project.
Rod puppet- Week3 assignment for Puppet class
in Puppets
This week, I made a Rod puppet. It's really a tough work，and at first, I even didn't figure out how to start! We went to Metropolitan Lumber&Hardware and OK hardware to buy the Rod, pins , nails，springs, string we need to make this puppet, using a lot of time to think about how mechanism works.
Then I drew the draft about the mechanism.
There are two parts contained mechanism. I want to make the mouth is able to open and the waist can bend.
I cut one rod into two parts, using a pin to through it then put a spring connect this two parts, in order to make the waist bend.
Mouth part is more complicated. I used a piece of wood to be the mouse. Inserted a long pin to be the axis of it. Then used a spring to attached the mouth to the rod in order to make it took the pin as an axis to rotate.
I used 8 pieces of wood to make it face. Used wood cutting machine and wood sanding machine to produce every parts in appropriate shape. Then I assembled all these parts with nails. Drill nails into woods tightly to make a well-knit head. It looks like the face of an elderly woman.
I put an blue foam in semicircular shape，and attached it on the rod behind its head to make it like the humpback of the elderly woman.
I found some fabricate to make clothes in Japaness-style. So I decided to make a Japanese Kimono for it.
I added some cotton in its body to make a big belly and humpback for it to make the puppet looks like a paunchy elderly woman. And I also sewed two small bags of cotton to make its prolapsed breast.
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At last, I used steel wool to make her hair, drew red lips with acrylic paint. Made a wood hand for it, and use chopsticks to control it.
Hand Puppet--Week2 Assignment
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/106883152[/embed] This week , I made a foam hand Puppet , it's really interesting even I spent a lot of time on it. I like it so much even it isn't what I designed before, but I enjoy the surprise during the process of making puppet.
I used foam, steel wool, fabrics, sponge, wires to make it.
We go to Moods Fabric in 37th street to buy a lot of fabrics, I like different fabrics sooooooooo much! Especially the vintage wool like Harris Tweed. So after inspired by those beautiful fabrics， I decided to make an elderly man in vintage style，with a shirt and tailored suit.
1. I used foam to make its head and use two pieces of hard paper to make its mouth(I think hard paper is not the good solution, because the mouth can not open and active freely, maybe next time I'll use foam to make its mouth)
2. Put fabrics on the foam head to imitate human’s skin.
3. I used piece of foam, rolled it to be cylindricality.It was the body of the puppet. Then also put fabrics on it.
4. I used two stick of foam to make its arm, each of stick into 3 parts——Upper limb，elbow，and forearm. Used an long wire to get though each of them, and put these 3 parts together. In its way, the hand can move and active freely.
5.Made a clothes for the puppet.
6. I used sponge and white socks to make its eye balls.
7.Used grey Steel wool to make its hair.
My partner made an crocodile, so we decided to sell sunglasses in our commercial advertisement.
Here are two actors! Elderly man and his pet Mr.crocodile.
