link:https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/609265
Visualizing Time Project Plan
Plant
- The worm at the bottom will take 60 seconds to reach the second layer. And for each minutes, there will be a new leaf. When there are 60 leaves in the second layer, the flower will grow one petal. The flower at the left side represents daytime (a.m.), and the one at the right represents nighttime(p.m.).
Step:
- Draw a worm, flower, and a small tree
- Duplicate these
- Make pm/am flower different
- Make variables (second) forrising worm, (minute) for small tree leaf, and (hour) for flower petals
Kasper_3 Ideas for Visualizing Time Project
- Falling blocks
- For each time the time changes, a new number will fall down to replace the old number, and the old one will fall down as blocks.
- Spinning wheel
- The mouse is like a colorful wheel, which is formed by randomly color-changing and position-changing lines. Whenever the mouse moves to the center, the wheel will become larger and the time will be displayed as thinker black lines.
- Plant
- The worm at the bottom will take 60 seconds to reach the second layer. And for each minutes, there will be a new leaf. When there are 60 leaves in the second layer, the flower will grow one petal. The flower at the left side represents daytime (a.m.), and the one at the right represents nighttime(p.m.).
Kasper-ResearchPost02
Invisible Infrastructures: Understanding Autonomous Systems by Share Foundation
The Internet nowadays is an indispensabele and invisible infrastructure that provides us an unlimit opportunities. Due to its invisibility, it’s seldom discuss and people have limited knowledege about how they deal with our data or how those networks are interconnected, but these are actually significant aspects to understand.
In order to deal with these, they first understand the structure of our nearest network, which is owned and runed by tens of thousands of internet service provider (ISP). Because every device connecting to the internet has an IP address, which allows data to flow over the internet, they used IP ranges of ISPto create a Network Topology map for every of them.
In this case, there are more than 300,000 different IP addresses and links between huge sets of data. To visualize these, they used Gephi which is a platform able to display, manipulate and transform the network into a map. And this help them to obtain a form of 30 different maps of ISPs in Sebria. For each different structures, they can not only learn the network structure analysis, efficiency of the network and the aspect of each network security, but also private related misuse of the network, content control, and surveillance. And the three basic network structures are centralized, decentralized, and distributed.
However, their analysis is still based on an individual ISP, which is just a small fragment of the entirety. In order to create a more thorough pucture of the story and further understand more deeply, they will have to also examine local interconnectoins and links to the internationl networks.
Variable Face Project
Version_1
Version_2
OpenProcessing Link:https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/592714
The most difficult thing I encountered during the process is calculating and finding every points in each curve. My project is mainly composed by using curveVertex and Bezier function, so it took me a lot of time to get the right numbers and come up with the sketch I want. The curvetool in the website do help me a lot with this. As you can see, this person’s has an unsymmetrical facial features. This is actually how I usually draw a person. To me, nothing is symmetrical. This person own some special features which represent me, such as those three earrings and the flower above this person. I embed the variables in the color of the hat and freckles. I also made most curves become randomly changed by clicking the mouse. For the right eyeball, I used the Map function to make the eyeball movable. After seeing other classmates’ project in class, I leaned many ways to make this portrait more detailed, so I also leave my first version project above. In this way, you can see which difference I made.
Research Post_1
B&W Forever!
by LIA
“B&W Forever!” by LIA, 2013
“B&W Forever!” is a video that uses expanding rectangles to create complex monochromatic patterns. The use of black and white represents a steady balance between good and evil, form and void, and light and darkness. Occasionally, you can see the shades of grey, which means this existing state of dynamic equilibrium somehow might change to favor the other temporarily.
To me, the idea and concept of an art work is much more important than anything else, and artist is the one who can apply this to any form of art. There is no difference between computational art and other traditional type of art, such as watercolor or oil painting; all of them are undoubtable to be considered as original. It’s just an edgy way to bring the concept that the artist would like to convey to the society. Computer-generated art might not be able to have the same sense of warmness as handmade art because of the artificiality of the lack of flaw. However, it gives audience a different way, a more interactive way, to feel the aesthetics of art.
Link: http://www.liaworks.com/videos/bw-forever/
Computational Artwork
photos by Eric Simpson
Luminoid Garden, which is created by Filipa Valente, is an interactive installation that creates a bond between the audience and their surroundings. The garden shows a kind of breathing behavior depends on the light, temperature, pollution, and the actions of audience members. This project is also collabarated with Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, who performed with the artificial blooms making connection between environment, people, and the city.
I chose this project mainly because of the element “light.” Light always plays a crucial role in various ways. In movies, the alteration of brightness and darkness can represent hope and hopeless. As for a photo, it can help the audience focus on the part or feel the emotion that the artist wants to deliver. Not to mention one of the most popular art event “Tokyo Art City by Naked,” which uses particles of light to reflect the human activity of Tokyo in multiple dimensions.
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