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Friday, November 21, 2014

dsdn 142 | creative coding | chapter 3 - draw

OK - I need to go back to basic trig for this. x,y coordinates etc - I cannot even begin to remember when it was that I last thought about this stuff. My old maths teacher, Obsie, would be proud.

So First we are thinking about sizing the screen and I am continuing on with 600 x 600 pixels.

I have located the centre and drawn a point there - it's there, I promise. There's also a point, one pixel in, in each of the four corners:

Then I drew a line:

Then a line on a 45 degree angle:

Then an equidistant triangle:

...and a quadrangle.

Now a rectangle:

And an ellipse:

Then finally an arc (which uses the value of pi for construction).

With the arc creation, I prefer to use degree measurements,so - as per the instructions, I converted to radians with the radians() function"

Monday, November 17, 2014

dsdn 142 | creative coding | first foray into Processing

So I downloaded the book 'Getting Started With Coding'. I also downloaded Processing (the software) and have made my first programme - an ellipse - from page 9 of the text. Note (hopefully) correct referencing:

And then I did exercise two - Make Circles

Then I adjusted the size of the project (to 600 x 600) and put it into 'present' mode. No more Bon Iver wallpaper.

And then I changed the fill the colour specified in the example given to us in the studio

Then experimented with the colour selector - I found a nice pink and then copied the hex code into my code as opposed to using the RGB code.

NB Birgit reminded us to go to color.adobe.com for some awesome colour schemes. She also showed us how to change the background with the addition of some simple code:

Then finally the size of the ellipse:

...and the colour of the stroke (now white on the pink ellipse).

For extra fun - it is possible to vary the ellipse size relative to where the mouse moves...

And to halve the size of the ellipse:

Even to change the size of the shape to a rectangle:

And the stroke weight:

And no fill:

Monday, November 3, 2014

DSDN 244 | project three: datagraphy | hand-in

My presentation for project three

Sunday, October 12, 2014

ccdn 331 | project four | manifestation

Design Manifesto

I look at things from more than one perspective;

I do no harm;

I craft with love;

I question stereotypes;

I am organised;

I am never finished;

I adapt;

I stimulate more than one sense with my work;

I do not waste my resources;

I value the practice of remediation;

I am engaged in a two-way learning process;

I design my world & my world informs my design:

It's all two-way

Friday, October 3, 2014

ccdn 244 | project three | data excercise

Instructions: you have to go into your back garden and take some shots of the sky on a dark, cloudless night (tonight may well be perfect for it). If you do this on auto setting you will get terrible images. But it you can set up your camera on a tripod or on the ground (something stable - not in your hands) and set the shutter speed to 30 seconds (obviously you need a DSLR for this). Set the apeture to around f2.4 and set the iso to at least 3600. Finally, be sure to focus the camera manually - if you have a zoom lens the zoom in on the stars, focus on them to make them as sharp as possible manually and then zoom back out to have as wide an angle as possible. And finally make sure that you are shooting in RAW format as you need it to try to pull information out.

These are my best images:

ccdn 244 | project two | hand-in

This is my final hand-in. I have chosen three photographs from my remediation exercise where I projected my best three Holga camera images onto my back and then photographed it.

The final image is a composite of the three that were most successful in expressing the idea of eInk as a way of carrying my family with me everywhere. Literally on my back, just as I do with my conventional tattoo.

These are the images:

This is my final presentation PDF:

And this is my project, remediated as a video:

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

ccdn 244 | project two | final precedent

My final precedent for this project is " La Jetée" the 1962 film by Chris Marker which is composed of stills (in all but one brief scene) to tell the story of a post-apocalyptic Parisian man who witnesses a fatal shooting as a boy and is obsessed about it forever after.

The whispering scenes which are a memorable feature of the film have an effect on me every time I see this film. I will pay homage to the film by including a little whispering in my final hand-in. The whispering is well demonstrated as from 1:40.

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