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So I have not posted for a while but have been tracking the work I have been doing in the form of short videos, photos etc. Flicker in the Wind is not coming along as I had hoped but I … Continue reading
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This week we decided to take a step back and look at other ways of moving and to get a grip on what we might need to do to get our crawly thing up and running. We essentially looked at … Continue reading
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Last semester I played with the game of life to create a set of frames that would be exported as a PDF, from processing, to be reworked in Illustrator and then cut on our school laser cutter. For reference to … Continue reading
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Wind Energy is all around us and we are not taking advantage of this. Currently I am working on a canopy that harnesses wind energy to light up a panel of LEDs. As I learn how to do this I … Continue reading
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So this week we [Myself and Marcela Godoy] decided to try our luck and build a few mechanisms. We wanted to try to think about the structure and the mechanism as the form for the creature but needed and still … Continue reading
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For our final in pure data I wanted to give PD GEM a shot. I wanted to try to link up sounds with visuals. Or at least have the sounds affect the visuals. Unfortunately my attempts failed. In a way … Continue reading
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For our Nature of Code Midterm I was inspired by a video [Posted Below] I saw last semester of oil in water. I wanted to try to recreate the way the bubbles reacted with each other when oil is poured … Continue reading
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For our midterm in Design Frontiers I opted to look into Harnessing Wind Energy. Concurrently I am in the basic stages of designing a canopy that would perform like a windmill. Each end piece of the canopy would be hooked … Continue reading
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This Midterm project I have teamed up with Marcela Godoy to work on a surface that is made of one piece of paper and is folded. We wanted to try to fold this piece into a form and then make … Continue reading
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For last weeks assignment we were asked to make a composition or interactive patch with no sound files. We were required to make our own sounds using noise, oscillator, etc. For patch file click noise-beats or noise-beats2 otherwise see image … Continue reading
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The patch on the right is my first attempt at sending and receiving messages at a specific metronome. I had hoped to affect the sound of the right most patch with mouse locations but that didn’t quite pan out the … Continue reading
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The project is a wind powered/activated installation. This installation will act like a tree canopy. The leaves will be mounted to a branched system/gridded structure. These leaves will move and dangle in the wind. When these move, the light that … Continue reading