Category Archives: Projects

Clara Juliana Santamaria Vargas, Daniel Shiffman, Data Art, Jer Thorp, Programming from A to Z, Projects, Sagar Mohite

Colorpress

Sagar Mohite, Clara Juliana Santamaria Vargas

A library of grammatical portraits of books, short stories, essays and plays.

http://colorbooks.herokuapp.com/

Description

Colorpress is an online and printed collection of grammatical portraits of various books published over the ages. Each portrait is a colored pixellation of all the words in a book color coded by grammar rules. We also color code certain characters and special phrases in the books.

The exhibit at the ITP Winter Show 2014 will feature a high quality printed book featuring a colored portrait of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, portraits of entire books on postcards and posters, and an online library of selected famous works. The book as well as the website will also feature various data visualizations about certain metadata about the book.

A future step would be to make an online interactive portal where people would be able to order custom prints on their choice of media.

[Note: the link above is a work in progress and may not represent the final product and the name will be changed to Colorpress]

Classes

Data Art, Programming from A to Z

Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis, Introduction to Physical Computing, Nicholas Bratton, Projects, Rebecca Lieberman

Root Note

Nicholas Bratton, Rebecca Lieberman

Root Note: a botanical audio interface and generative soundscape that expresses the dynamic relationship between plants and their surroundings.

rootnote.co

Description

Root Note is a botanical audio interface that brings to life the dynamic relationship between plants and their surroundings. A small garden of living plants reacts to the touch and proximity of a spectator to create an immersive and generative soundscape. Three different kinds of sensors embedded in the soil register changes in the plants’ environment such as the presence of human touch, fluctuations in light, and soil moisture level. Using an Arduino microcontroller, this data from the plants is routed into the audio synthesis environment Max where it is used to control aspects of the sound. Through their observation and interaction, the audience takes part in sculpting a real-time aural representation of the plants’ environment. The changing soundscape is a reflection on symbiosis and interspecies entanglement.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Arlene Ducao, Introduction to Physical Computing, Jordan Backhus, Oryan Inbar, Projects, Sergio Mora

Void

Jordan Backhus, Oryan Inbar, Sergio Mora

A study on light and space and the intricacies therein.

http://www.oryan1.com/void/

Description

“Void” is an interactive art installation that manipulates light and physical space through the use of three-dimensional screens, computer-generated images, and sensors. The installation serves to provide an ethereal and experiential interaction arena, in which the installation directly responds visually to the proximities and movements of its user(s).

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Ainsley O'Connell, Allison Ye, Ben Moskowitz, Flying Robotic Journalism, Haylee Hongeun Jung, Kate Godwin, Projects, Sagar Mohite, Salem Al-Mansoori

Oakwood Beach Returns To The Wild

Allison Ye, Sagar Mohite, Salem Al-Mansoori, Ainsley O’Connell, Kate Godwin, Haylee Hongeun Jung

Two Years After Hurricane Sandy, Oakwood Beach in Staten Island Returns To The Wild.

http://frj-sandy.heroku.com

Description

At its peak, Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, spanned over 1,150 miles – roughly the driving distance between New York and Miami. As it began nearing the coastline, pouring down rain and rattling windows, schools closed, public transit shut down, and flood-zone residents evacuated their homes. The full force of the storm hit New York City on October 29, 2012, with winds gusting to 80 miles per hour.

Oakwood Beach, a low-lying hamlet on the south shore of Staten Island, was no match for the superstorm. By the time the winds and waters receded, leaving mud-filled homes in their wake, three residents were dead. Dozens more would be homeless for months.

During the year that followed, some residents chose to return and rebuild. But now, two years since the storm, the state is in the midst of implementing a buy-out program designed to convince all residents to leave their homes. Officials have closed on 276 buy-out sales in Oakwood Beach and two nearby towns, at a cost of $112 million; another 200 applications are pending.

In Oakwood Beach, once an oceanfront sanctuary for working class families, just a handful of stubborn holdouts remain. They live among empty lots and boarded windows; 47 neighborhood houses have already been demolished.

We visited Oakwood Beach around Sandy’s anniversary to talk to the remaining residents. They are surrounded: by nature, as animals and wetlands reclaim the land, and by government, as officials prepare for a world in which Oakwood Beach no longer exists. For now, the town sits in limbo.

Viewers will interact with this piece via leap motion.

Classes

Flying Robotic Journalism

Daniel Rozin, Introduction to Computational Media, Projects, Yurika Mulase

DrawMidi

Yurika Mulase

DrawMidi systematically visualizes notes played on a MIDI keyboard into an abstract, glitch-like piece of artwork which can later be musically analyzed based on pitch and dynamic range.

http://www.yurikamulase.com/icm-final-project-drawmidi/

Description

DrawMidi maps pitch and velocity data from the MIDI keyboard onto a canvas made in Processing. Each note played is connected by a line that is color-coded based on pitch. The pitch determines where the line will be placed horizontally, and the velocity will change the height and thickness of the line. The user will have the choice of clearing the background in black or white, and saving the resulting picture in a folder within the Processing sketch. DrawMidi serves as a fun drawing program for those with non-musical backgrounds, and as a music analysis and visualization performance program for those with musical backgrounds.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

Alina Balean, Projects

Pillow Fight 2.0

Alina Balean

Wearable technology for winning the most important game. The world's first pillow fight ready smart robe.

http://alinabalean.com/pillow-fight-2-0/

Description

Developed for wearable game controllers this series of smart robes are action pack ready. By using your hand held pillow you are encouraged to protect yourself from your opponents swings, they are trying to activate your alarm and 'wake' you up! But watch out for the light alerts on your robe it may be your turn to take a swing!

Description of technology::

Two robes outfitted with:

– Touch sensors built in.

– LED series for signaling turns and “lives”

– Speakers for “morning alarm”

Visual sketch to accompany narrative and take inputs from actions

Classes

Live Web, Nevena Kocic, Projects, Shawn Van Every, WoonYung Choi

PackingTogether

Nevena Kocic, WoonYung Choi

fun way of packing together with your friends

http://packingtogether.herokuapp.com/

Description

An web interface that helps you pack with your friends– who brings what, sharing the things on your trip – such as one camera for all, one toothpaste for all, speakers for loud music. Main purpose of the project is to save time organizing, not to forget important stuff and not bringing unnecessary/duplicated things when traveling in group.

Classes

Live Web

Andrew Sahlstrom, Ben Light, Intro to Fabrication, Projects

4-axis modular camera system

Andrew Sahlstrom

4-axis modular Camera system for video/time-lapse/stop motion applications

http://www.abstract-assembly.com/?p=218

Description

This is a developing 4-axis motion controlled modular camera system, with 3 axis in working order here for demonstrative purposes.

The linear rail offers 1000mm of  motion, 250-300mm of vertical motion control via scissor lift (which will be unveiled at the winter show), and  360 degrees of direct pan and tilt motion control.

Basically, this is an automated slider. Also an automated scissor lift.  Also an automated pan/tilt.  All of them modular and all of them offer manual control.  All of them capable of real time video as well as time-lapse photography for video footage.  For animation and stop motion applications, it also provides simple push button manual shutter-release control, as well as more advanced programmable solutions.

The 1000mm (roughly 4′) aluminum extrusion mounts on a tripod with a standard 1/4” 20 set screw mount with one 3-12V 40rpm geared dc motor mounted on a separate aluminum carriage plate.  For linear motion this system uses an mxl belt drive mounted on either end of the extrusion with two idler pulleys on the carriage plate which is being pulled along in either direction by the dc motor.

Mounted on the carriage plate is another set screw mount for the scissor lift . At the top of the scissor lift is yet another set screw mount for the  pan/tilt module. 

An Arduino with a motor shield is used for the more complex applications which happen within the project enclosure.  A shutter release cable is connected from a camera to an output from the Arduino within the project enclosure. The shutter circuit closes, and 4 motors pulse in desired increments along each desired axis depending on the specific position of a potentiometer as well as the direction of the pole of the DPDT switch .

Classes

Intro to Fabrication