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King of the Frogs
King of the Frogs is a multiplayer game designed & developed by Vanessa Joho and Jorge A. Brake. Players enter the game by dialing a phone #, and once in the game, they control a ...
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Animals: Final Project Concept
Having performed in-depth research on spotted hyenas, and gaining a much better understanding of the hyena’s history, I’ve realized that hyenas are massively misunderstood and under-appreciated. With my final project, I seek to explore these misconceptions ...
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Animals Midterm: Hyena Diptych + Post-Mortem
For our midterm we were assigned to create a diptych that explores the objective and subjective POV of an animal that we select. I chose to work with the hyena – not entirely sure why, but I ...
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Nature of Code Midterm: Hubert the Frog
For my midterm I decided to create a game that involves a variety of forces. You play as Hubert the Frog, and you have to walk and hop your way around the pond to eat ...
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Redial Midterm: Phone Pixelator
For my midterm, I’ve decided to incorporate the ‘creation’ of a pixelated art piece, inspired by this piece: I wanted to play with the idea of having people calling in, and being randomly assigned one ...
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Nature of Code: Midterm Concept
In an attempt to bring together everything we’ve learned over the past 6 weeks or so, I want to create a game that plays with attractor and repeller forces. After working on the concept of ...
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Redial: Midterm Concept
After seeing the in-class AGI to Ajax demo, I decided I wanted to further explore the possibilities of connecting the telephone to the web. I’m constantly drawn to artwork that reminds me of a ‘pixelated’ ...
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Animals Week 4: Animal Analysis
ELEPHANT Dumbo – Symbolic / Pop Culture In the Disney movie Dumbo, the main character is a young elephant called Jumbo Jr. He is ridiculed for his big ears and given the nickname “Dumbo”. In ...
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Nature of Code Week 3: Oscillation + Trigonometry
This week we furthered our exploration of forces with oscillation and trigonometry. Learning about angles, rotation, and oscillation, we’re learning to further manipulate the movement of objects in physical space. I decided to expand on ...
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Animals Week 2: Your Animal Self, Expanded
For this week, we’ve been tasked to expand upon our animal self-portrait from Week 1. I had chosen the Coyote as my animal self-portrait because I identify with some of it characteristics, including curiosity, adaptability, ...
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Nature of Code Week 2: Vectors + Forces
This week we learned about vectors and how to apply forces to them, as we get closer to replicating actual forces in nature & physics like gravity, wind, friction, etc. We’re essentially learning how to ...
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Redial Week 2: TeleJukebox
We’re two weeks deep into Redial, working our way towards building more robust interactive telephony applications. For this week’s assignment, I created TeleJukebox, a jukebox that lives INSIDE YOUR PHONE and will play a song ...