Author: Keshanna

My final project, is an expansion of my sound software project. My first thing was to use the ellipses and implement them with different pitches with the sine wave, but i then put in two sine waves and a saw wave as well. I put the saw wave to change different pitches, freq, and amps whenever a key is pressed, as well as the change in back ground color. I also changed the color of some of the ellipses, and aimed towards a more warmer color palette, implementing something I learned about different colors my past semester. I changed the where the volume on the screen goes high and lower, as well as where the pitch becomes high and low. The volume becomes louder when the mouse is moved to the right of the screen and lower as it’s moved toward the left, and the pitch becomes higher towards the bottom and lower towards the top of the screen; moving the mouse around you then get different sounds of the waves. Whenever a key is pressed it makes the code become more musical, that wasn’t what I aimed for but i enjoyed the different sounds I came up with as I pressed keys and moved the ellipses creating songs and beats. I didn’t have much influence, but then I turned to Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman’s The Manual Input Workstation, where many objects where jumping all over the screen, with sound.

So I used a few ellipses that move along with the mouse, incorporating a sine wave with it. I wanted the ellipses to make different annoying sounds as they move along each other. I kept messing around and changed a few things, putting the frequency to 1000 and and the amp to 4. Just experimenting with the values, I also kept changing the value of x and y until I found something that seemed reasonable. It was different then what I first had in mind, but it turned out to make robotic noises that sounds like it can be apart of “technology”. As some of them hit corner it makes a different noise then what the others make, more amped. 

I had an idea for my final project, which is to expand on sound. I wanted to maybe go a little further with the software instrument that I submitted this week or even work on something different. I thought of experimenting with different sounds that we don’t usually enjoy hearing, although it’ll be annoying it’ll catch peoples attention. Still, I haven’t figured out what type of instrument I want to use to display each sound but I know for a fact sound is something I want to work with for my final project. The first thing that popped into my head was what does technology sound like or what sounds do we think of when we think of programming, do we even hear a noise/sound and what does it look like? That’s what I have in mind, still figuring out the figures or objects I’m going to use to demonstrate what we think programming sounds like.

I had been having some trouble getting some of the features to operate the way I wanted it to. But, I kept it simple and was able to get the eyes to  open up bigger each second and the mouth opens and closes as the random colors changes. I left the minute and hour hand in the face of the clock, just to represent the nose.

Based on my calculations from the “Time Management Calculator”, I am in danger and some of my activities should stop. Most of my activities come from being on my phone(emailing, social networks, blogging, texting, etc) and as well talking on my phone. Those are my daily activities because I am a blogger and Im usually on my laptop editing photos and answering emails because I do photography. Everything else may have been a little off because not always does it take em hours to get from point A to B or the amount of times that I read in one day. Besides those activities, I think that Im actually not in danger because me being on my phone and laptop is for school/homework purposes most of the time, but besides those activities I  don’t have any other activities that would be taking up my time. In the blog “Time Estimation, Software, and Dinner”, I totally relate to telling my friends that I am near and Im actually a little further. I feel like I estimate time good always planning ahead, but we all in some way do that, just as the blog says, tell our friends a shorter time so that they wouldn’t be upset. It is also better to plan time ahead, time estimation skills come in handy when it’s time to meeting for parties, dinners and events.

Zach Lieberman is a teacher, fan of poetry, and a new media programmer from New York. He focuses on computer technology and enjoys surprising his audience through his creativity. Lieberman went to Parsons School or Design and Hunter College where he received his BA in Fine Arts. He teaches at Parsons, and is a founder of the school for poetic computation. Within his work and teaching he allows his students and audience to work and participate with the projects and installations he presents. Besides computing and education, he focuses on higher education. Lieberman, leans on free education and computer technology for “creative coding”.

Adding features was kind of hard for me to do, so I kept it clean and simple. I added arms, so every time I clicked the mouse and my faces changed, the arms moved creating body movement that matched each face expression.

 

PROLOG, being produced out of research at the University of Aix-Marseielle, is a logic programming language that’s associated with artificial intelligence and symbolic computation created by Alain Colmerauer. It was created in the early 1970’s in Marseille, France. There are two computer languages that’s used in artificial intelligence work, which are LIPS(List Processing) and PROLOG. The first PROLOG system was produced in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Rouseel. This language was one of the first logic programming languages and is still the most popular out of most languages. PROLOG is created for theorem proving, expert systems, natural language processing. It is used for certain assignments such as voice control systems and searching databases. PROLOG has origins as the first order logic, and formal logic, interrupted by facts and rules. It being common in Japan, it was used in creating the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer System Initiative, for producing smart and intelligent computers. PROLOG uses three terms which are, constants, structure and variables. Although, PROLOG is an intelligent and strong programming language it has it’s pros and cons. An advantage of this program is that it allows you to look at the world in a different perspective, and alternating the way you would think or ask a question gives off a better solution. Also, using PROLOG is at it’s best when you have a problem that needs to be solved with backtracking. The disadvantages of using PROLOG is when it comes to mathematical computations, it’s much slower. It also has a various amount of compilers, and comes with difficulties within compilation.