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Creative Javascript, Lauren McCarthy, Projects, Yu Hu

ColorGuy

Yu Hu

A mobile app to help you grasp every drop of color in life

Description

ColorGuy is a PhoneGap app, which could take photos, choose colors from that photo and type in words to describe your emotion at that moment.

As we know, colors are powerful: people are attracted by colorful products, designers want to use colors to make things functional and beautiful, fashion guys want to express their styles by colors…

The goal of this application is to let people who love colors keep a diary of colors in their life, play with colors and form a good taste.

Now we have a computer version color piker to help use analyze colors in pictures, we also have a lot of applications about colors in apple store. However, none of them like ColorGuy, which could let you analyze the colors around you in life and play with colors whenever and wherever you want!

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Creative Javascript

3D Printing Luxury, Antonius Wiriadjaja, Automata: Telling Stories with Machines, Julia Irwin, Nick Yulman, Projects

Scope 3D

Julia Irwin

Scope3D is a micromechanical 3D scanner that allows users to build scalable 3D models from tiny objects.

https://vimeo.com/114265826

Description

Development of the scanner was inspired by a design project to make 3D printed design objects whose form gets created by their underlying physical properties (e.g., salt and pepper shakers in the shape of a salt crystal and peppercorn, respectively). This working prototype is a first iteration of a longer research initiative to make a tool that accounts for different shapes and textures, and fully automates the 3D modeling process so users can press a single button and create a true-to-form model.

Classes

3D Printing Luxury, Automata: Telling Stories with Machines

Danara Sarioglu, Introduction to Physical Computing, Jeffrey Feddersen, Nikolaj Petersen, Projects

Eye See You

Danara Sarioglu, Nikolaj Petersen

A feeling of being watched by a persistent panel of 300 passively curious eyes, that has your image in their pupil and will follow you if you get close.

http://nikolajpetersen.com/?p=219

Description

By equating the human eye (organic) with the digital equivalent (the camera, the ever lasting recording entity) this piece is as a comment on how people relate to todays multiple surveillance systems.

A continuing increasing amount of watching and recording entities are being put into more and more extensive systems. Systematic use of cameras in public spaces, telephone intercepts motivated no merely by suspicion, not to mention governments and corporations strong interest in all the data we leave behind when we are on the WEB, are all examples surveillance systems that are far more evolved and efficient that one can comprehend.

When parts of our lives and behaviors are moved to digital platforms, so are all the trails and memories that once were limited to human capabilities of remembrance. Now, cameras and data have (almost) ever lasting memory as well as working persistency.

So, how do we understand and relate to the abstract phenomenon of multiple watching entities in our everyday life? How does it affect the way we behave? Does it interfere with the way we are social? What do these systems look like, looking 10-20 years ahead, and what will be the implications then?

These are the questions we are trying to provoke.

To see a prototype in work, click the video at: http://nikolajpetersen.com/?p=219

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Ava I-Wen Huang, Introduction to Physical Computing, Jeffrey Feddersen, Projects, Supreet Mahanti

Comehitheroscope

Ava I-Wen Huang, Supreet Mahanti

Come closer to find your visual sweet spot.

Description

Moving images that come to life when some sort of movement is sensed. Another way of describing it would be the analog way to visual animation.

Based on the age-old cinematic principle of persistence of vision to create an illusion of movement, this device consists of a circular array of sequential images mounted on a rotational disk. As the viewer steps into range, a series of LEDs light up and start to blink. The intensity of blinking defines the clarity of the images from a blur to a clear animation. This intensity is controlled by the viewers distance from the device: the closer the viewer, the faster the blinking. When the blinking is too fast, the images appear as a blur, when they are too slow i.e., when the viewer is too far, the images lose visibility. This automatically spurs the viewer to find the exact “sweet spot” through a trial and error forwards and backwards motion at which point the animation is revealed at its highest point of clarity.

All this is controlled by a range sensor that senses the distance of a body from in front of the device and adjust the blinking according to a pre-defined range of values, in this case distance mapped to blink speed. Once the viewer is within range and the circular disk lights up to life, she will also notice the playing of music added up to be reminiscent of a form of entertainment of a bygone era.

This device is inspired by the early animation device, the phenakistoscope.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Allison Ye, Daniel Rozin, Designing for Digital Fabrication, Greg Shakar, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Projects

Reading, You

Allison Ye

A biodata composition generated in real time.

http://vimeo.com/allisonye

Description

A heart rate monitor connects to each musician and the serial data feeds into Max/MSP, signaling the chair light interface which acts as the composition for each musician to play.

Classes

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Designing for Digital Fabrication

Introduction to Physical Computing, Jason Dunne, Jeffrey Feddersen, Projects

C0-Canvas

Jason Dunne

Collaborate with friends on one shared online canvas from anywhere in the world using a rad arcade-style video game controller.

http://jasondunne.com/winter

Description

Anachronism: A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

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Imagine a playful 90s-era Microsoft Paint drawing environment. Now imagine that you can collaborate with friends across the globe over the web. If that wasn't enough, envision a rad arcade-style video game controller with a playstation-style joystick and addictively clicky buttons. That's called a recipe for a fun time.

Find more info here: http://cargocollective.com/jbdunne/Physical-Computing

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Daniel Rozin, Introduction to Computational Media, Karthik Patanjali, Projects

Augmented Video Mirror

Karthik Patanjali

Blend faces in a mirror at random.

https://vimeo.com/113524587

Description

The faces that are detected get switched randomly. The closer one gets to the person with whom his/her face for switched, the more prominent the blend is. This is kind of a literal play on how one starts to behave like another person when the get close.

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Introduction to Computational Media

Appropriating Interaction Technologies, Kyle McDonald, Projects, Rodrigo Derteano

Los 43

Rodrigo Derteano

A chrome extension to honor the 43 Mexican students (and all others) that "disappeared".

http://rodrigoderteano.com/en/43/

Description

Los 43 is a chrome extension that adds a cross after every appearance of the number 43 in every page you visit. It occupies that number as way to honor and don't forget the 43 Mexican students (and all other) who “disappeared” by the government. If the html structure allows it, the number also becomes a link to several sites to get more information about the issue or take action.

Classes

Appropriating Interaction Technologies

Haylee Hongeun Jung, Projects, Rucha Patwardhan

Rashomon

Haylee Hongeun Jung, Rucha Patwardhan

An Augmented Reality gallery experience that explores multiple unreliable narrators through a Japanese woodblock print.

Description

Many layers and contradicting narrations on a single event are presented as the user looks at a japanese painting through a tablet.

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