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Goal Stoppers

Tyler Burrell

An interactive game simulation where the user's main objective is to stop the ball from going into the goal.

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Description

My project for Creative Computing includes the p5.js and ml5.js libraries where I have created a game that tracks your wrists using PoseNet, the users objective is to adjust their arms in order to stop the ball. The user will be placed in front of a webcam that is actively tracking the movements of both wrists while they look for the digital ball being kicked towards them.

Classes

Creative Computing

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The Pilgrim

Chunyi Yang

A screen-based game about the life of a faithful pilgrim.

https://github.com/EEEEEV/The-Pilgrim

Description

In the game, the players control a micro creature to move around and gather bricks. The bricks are used to build a tower, which is for these faithful creatures to reach their sovereign patron saint. The protector, or the “god,” protect the creatures from brightness, which can kill them. Players will loose health point if exposed under light, but will get healed around the tower. As players gather more bricks, the tower will become taller, thus enlarging the vision and the map. Players also get to meet more creatures dancing around the tower, worshipping the god. Some characters share stories of the god. Players may feel frustrated due to the difficulty and boredom of collecting bricks, but their sense of mission may grow as they receive stronger gratitude and adoration from other creatures, for that their dream is about to come true. As the tower is finally tall enough for them to reach their god, players have a chance to see who the god is, and what happens at last.

Classes

Comm Lab: Hypercinema, Creative Computing

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Spherror

Julia Fernandez

An playful, yet unconventional mirror commenting on the absurdity of reality.

https://jftech-art.com/f/an-unconventional-mirror

Description

In our project, we invite visitors to take a seat in a chair and look at themselves in our unconventional mirror. The “mirror” is 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide and was created with 20 polystyrene spheres fixed to wooden dowels. The dowels are attached to a hollow base that conceals the power source and any wiring, including the wiring for the webcam. Across from the mirror is a chair for visitors to sit and gaze at themselves, positioned in a way that mimics a traditional vanity mirror. A projector will be fixed from the ceiling and at the bottom of the chair for full projection mapping coverage of the spheres. Since it is projection mapping, we would like to request a darker room. When a visitor is seated in the chair, PoseNet will detect specific facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) isolate them, and assign them to a sphere in the p5.js sketch. We then take the p5 sketch into MadMapper and projection map each circle onto our physical spheres. In the p5 sketch, the isolated features will jump around to different positions, which in turn will jump around from sphere to sphere via projection mapping. When there is no human present, the p5 sketch will display a TV noise animation.

The project is a commentary on the absurdity of reality. By dissecting your facial features, it is easier to see how strange we look and how much stranger we look when our eye or our nose is isolated. The project is playful because it is a fun interactive installation that anyone can use, but it is also uncanny and even uncomfortable because it dissects, exposes, and magnifies your face. Though people love looking at themselves, how will they feel when their faces are distorted in such a way?

Classes

Comm Lab: Hypercinema, Creative Computing

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We Are Breathing Lives

David Yang

Treat websites as physical environments, knowing websites impacting people both mentally and physically.

https://itp.nyu.edu/classes/cc-f19-do/we-are-breathing-lives-final-project-proposal/

Description

The project is a digital tree that grow or shrink base on the words it heard from the website. The tree will analyze the audio or reading the text from the webpage and reflect it on its growth. The project will take a digital form of a chrome extension.
The tree is for groups of people that hope to promote consciousness toward the environment they interact with. For example, The chrome extension could allow user to know visually if the website provides helpful comments and positive interaction.
The reason I want to do this is because I remembers an experiment about how environment could impact a person. The most important thing about the environment is its people. If we could be conscious about how our words could shape a place, a conversation, and a person, we might be able to create soil for each individual to growth. Similarly, if we could consciously place ourselves in nutritious environments/websites, we might be able to live a better life.

Classes

Creative Computing

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Gun Funded

Lachlan Campbell

See & understand the gun lobby's funding of the US Congress.

https://gunfunded.now.sh

Description

Gun violence is a growing epidemic across America, yet Congress refuses to pass real gun legislation. This is in large part due to the gun lobby’s direct funding: the current members of Congress have accepted $40M from the gun lobby & just $4M from gun control groups, a different of an order of magnitude. Gun Funded is a website that focuses on (neutrally) making this information readily available & easy to understand. I compiled the data myself from the Center for Responsive Politics and built the site with React/Next.js/Theme UI.

Classes

Creative Computing

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Frame by Frame

Kariina Altosaar

Collaboratively telling a story through gifs.

https://editor.p5js.org/kariina/full/_VvQvZFOY

Description

Frame by Frame is a web application that aims to tell a story through gifs by asking people to visually represent parts of the story. Each user is encouraged to represent one phrase of the story with a gif. The user is prompted to pose for two frames of a gif and then place the gif into the story. The story unfolds as more and more people add frames.

Classes

Creative Computing