AME Homwork Week 7

Curves

Using color in processing than finger painting. Colors cant simply be "more blue" or "more red". In processing, as in many programs, each and every color has a specific code. What may appear as inconvenient as first will eventually, with practice, become as intuitive as finger painting. New user will find the color palette tool very useful, since it can show the resulting color and can be easier than punching in random numbers looking for the right color. Gray scale is controlled with numbers between 0 and 250 but color scale is using all RGB colors, each ranging up to 250. A fourth number controls opacity. In addition to colors, the outlines can also be controlled or there can simply be no color at all by choosing to use nofill().

Curves

When it comes to bending lines there are simple curves which is the most basic form of a curve. It is a single bend that can be very difficult to use in large quantities. When wanting to make a series of curves, spline curves are more effective because they are easier to put into a series, forming a continuous bend. This can be useful when one wants to create more than one arc. Then one disadvantage to spline curves, however, is that they are not as swooping or fluid looking as arcs. For this, bezier curves are the more appropriate choice, since they can be put into a series but still retain their smoothness.

Flower... sort of

House of Mouse (Audio Homework)

The beginning is the actual Mickey Mouse Clubhouse intro by the rodent himself with the Full Metal Jacket acting as the choir. The drill sergeant sounding guy is from a video game.

Processing Circles

Concentric circles through processing although they are not interactive.

AME Homwork Week 6

Computer Vision for Artists and Designers

Computers cannot think as humans do, at least not yet. Computers simply gather input and process it. So as long as computers can gather visual data and process it, then there's no reason it can be used to create artwork. Have a video capture of anything, paintings, faces, water bottles, then a computer could gather the digital input and basically regurgitate it into a completely new image. What the new image would look like is entirely up to the programmer. It could either an altered version of the original image or something abstract.

Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art

As predictable as computers are in the way that information, humans actually have some of the same tendencies, especially when it comes to approaching a new, unfamiliar technology. When interactive media is shown to people, they have an almost specific response, following a very predictable pattern of first recognizing the way the input is gathered to trying to undermine it to then belittling it (sometimes). It has a comedic

Interactive Art

The top 15 criteria already sort of defined what interactive art is, but this wikipedia basically states that interactive is anything that an audience can participate in influencing. The Mona Lisa for instance is not interactive because the audience cannot alter the image short of actually throwing paint on it. However, a program that changed the intensity of the Mona Lisa's smile based on the audience's own smile could be called interactive.

Two Panoramics from ASU

This first one's from the bridge on University



The second's from the Life Sciences Research facility (top floor)