I still need more time...
Posted on January 03, 2006 at 06:17 PM by sj695
It is cold outside! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and happy new year, mine has been alright enjoying family in town and just relaxing. I haven’t really done anything but unpack for the past couple of weeks, but I did spend sometime on my News Bubble Reader.
Here is a link to the application file: DOWNLOAD
One thing, the application only works on Macs, so if you have a PC go to the lab. So, if you have a few minutes give the app a test drive and please, please, please respond with feedback.
THANKS!!!
Steve
0 CommentsProposal for final project
Posted on November 28, 2005 at 03:04 PM by sj695
Description
Graphic and Audio display of the latest news items from the internet via Google News
Breakdown of what I need
News Balls
News Collection
Music
News Titles
News Source Count
News Connectors (Connectors connect news items from different categories)
News Voice Reader
News Zoomer
Rules???
What I already have
Class for Ball
Adapt the processing's ball example
Breakdown of specific tasks and a time line to accomplish
By November 21
This proposal, project mapped out
Combining pieces of code I already have
By November 28
Balls Loading News from Google
Click and display news
Maybe scrolling news at bottom
Maybe background music
By December 5
News Voice Reader
News Zoom
For the Final presentation on December 12
Graphic and Audio display of news
Bonus stuff would like to do (but probably won't have time)
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WATER
Posted on November 07, 2005 at 01:49 PM by sj695
“Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe. If you reexamine the world around you from this new perspective, you will start to see things as you have never seen them before.”
Masaru Emoto - The Hidden Messages in Water
The most important thing in the world, the closest humans can come to God, the word I chose to write about is Water. I once heard of an experiment where different words were taped to glasses of water and later photographs were taken of the crystallized forms of the water. In the experiment, positive words produced beautiful photos of star like crystals while negative words produced pictures of dark depressed crystals. This got me to thinking about the fact that we’re 70% water and how we are affected by the different logos on the clothing we wear. I also think of bottled water, a friend of mine was telling me that Stern business school has their own bottled water. Is “Stern business” a good word or bad word? Is there another effect besides good or bad? Is this the reason Evian taste better than Dasani?
So we need 8 glasses of water a day, with a little effort this should be a pretty easy task considering the world is made up of oceans, rivers and lakes. So why does bottle water cost more than gas? The other day water was pouring from the sky, and I went to the deli and paid 3 dollars for a bottle of water.
8 glasses a day, that’s how much water we need to drink a day. Man that’s a lot of water. What happens if we don’t drink our 8 glasses? Will we dehydrate and dry up like a raisin in the Sun? I also find it amazing the combination of water and sun has on us as humans. In some ways they remind me of the mother and father. Which would be considered the mother or father, water or sun. And isn’t it really nice to go to the beach and hang out in the water on a hot sunny day? Water and Sun a perfect balance without sun there is no growth, but without water we dehydrate, with out water no energy, no spirit.
Water, the quiet giant with strength to move buildings, with ability to move throw even the smallest of cracks. When frozen transformed into floor of ice strong enough to hold hundreds of humans. Water the mother of earth. All that in glass in a glass of water.
Water is such an awesome thing. Last night I made pasta and boiled two cups of water and put my noodles in and in 12 minutes my stiff noodles became nice and moist. After preparing my plate of boiled noodles I went to the freezer and put 4 frozen cubes of water into my glass and poured my 3 dollar bottle of water into the glass. As I ate I turned to CNN to watch the coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Can you believe the entire city of New Orleans was submerged under 20 feet of water? Seeing all that water on TV made me have to use the bathroom. I went to the bathroom lifted the toilet seat, peeed, and flushed. I was wondering, where does all that water go?
[Hold on for a second, I need to get a glass of water]
Okay, I’m back, what was I talking about? Oh yeah water. Like the ocean, rivers and lakes water connects us all. We’re nothing but a bunch of connected bodies of water.
ICM Week 4 Assignment: Animate Array of Objects 2
Posted on October 17, 2005 at 03:31 PM by sj695
Using arrays and loops have a simple drawing/object move around or appear in some decorative pattern.
* Please Note this is example comes from Dan Shiffman's examples
Source code: bouncingball & Ball
ICM Week 4 Assignment: Animate Array of Objects
Posted on October 17, 2005 at 03:15 PM by sj695
Now that your creature is an object. Make an array of your creature, with each element move independently. Add some additional functionality or interaction.
Source code: anim_train_object_array
10/03/2005 - ICM Class Notes
Posted on October 03, 2005 at 04:17 PM by sj695
Arrays
How to create a array
blank array with 5 slots
int[] mynum = new int[5]
or
array with 5 preset slots
int() mynum = {5, 8, 9, 10, 12}
Accessing a array
int a;
a = mynum(2)
a will then equal 9 because it is looking for the number 2 slot of the array (arrays start at 0)
Updating a array slot
mynum(0) = int(random(20));
mynum(1) = int(random(20));
mynum(2) = ......
Example mouseover using array: http://itp.nyu.edu/ICM/nancy/week4/rainbow
INTERATIONs
While {
....
....
}
for (int i=0, i< myNumLength, i++) {
myNum(i) = random(20);
}
REALLY COOL EXAMPLE HERE: http://itp.nyu.edu/ICM/nancy/week4/rainbows
Processing and Physical Computing
- To much information, like everything related to Physical Computing i'll be spending hours in the lab learning this.
** NOTE TO SELF: DO SOME POP MATRIX EXAMPLES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!
ICM Week 3 Assignment: Animate Object Character
Posted on October 03, 2005 at 03:17 PM by sj695
Turn your creature/car/construction (or make a new one) into an object with a function/method to draw it and a function/method that moves it. Create 2 or 3 instances that move independently. There should be some differences in color, size, and/or speed
Source code: anim_train_object
ICM Week 2 Assignment: Animate Simple Shape
Posted on September 26, 2005 at 01:37 PM by sj695
Using the setup() and draw() function make a simple shape, circle, triangle, rectangle, move around the applet window/ and/or play with changing colors based on some set of conditions.
ICM Week 2 Assignment: Animate Character
Posted on September 26, 2005 at 02:01 AM by sj695
Add variables to your creature/car/construction so that it can appear at different positions on the screen.
First Computational Media Entry
Posted on September 12, 2005 at 07:14 PM by sj695
This is my first Computational Media Entry, not much here now check back later.