Category: Intro to Phys. Comp.

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SEEN

I see and I exist, no fears to be naked, no absolutes in black and white.

Zhuolin Wu

https://youtu.be/IeNJmdwtiRI

Description

This is my semester-long project of my Fall 2020 at ITP, which involves a bunch of eye symbols and graphics, expressing the theme: Looking for a witness of life. Inspired by Katy Perry’s 5th studio album , a underestimated pop records that kept me being alive, got me thinking in depth, and stimulating my souls and energy.

I deconstructed, and restructured the storyline and meaning of each track in this album, collected the lyrics that resonated with me, and visualized them in different forms such as Unity animation, video and audio, projection mapping, installation and graphic art. It was not that easy to show the sincerity and intimacy, not even to mention transferring those memories, emotions and feelings, into programming visual language, physical interactions and fabrications.

Those works speak for me, and by that I want to open more potential connections and communications in the future. Not only the connection to the others who can be your side and ride the journey with you, but also to the self.

Aside from the visual composition, I bring more personalities, narratives, and intimacy into it by etching my own monologue into the piece. Visit the project website for more details about SEEN.

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Intro to Phys. Comp., CL – Visual Language (Online), ICM, CL – Animation
Art,Narrative/Storytelling
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our house: the data that we hold near and dear

Tuning in to other people's houses via unsecured webcams.

Anh Le

https://vimeo.com/489161727

Description

An exploration into the world of found, unsecured surveillance cameras, particularly ones that look into personal spaces, and the implications of viewing these cams and their roles in a socially-distanced world.

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Intro to Phys. Comp.
Privacy/Security
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Interactive DJ Pillars

Immersive DJ experience with the dancing light art

Wyatt Zhu, Shinnosuke Komiya, Weiwei Zhou

https://vimeo.com/491479341

Description

Standing in the middle of some LED pillars, there will stand a DJ. There is also a DJ control panels are attached to the headphone, the panning of the panels will change the electrical effect of the music, as well as the gradient changing of the LED pillars. We want the main material of the pillar to be half-transparent, with several LEDs at the bottom of the pillars. The device is expected to be played in a fairly dark place. With the glowing of the lights, the light will shine through the half-transparent material and gradually changes over time.

ITPG-GT.2301.00005
Intro to Phys. Comp.
Performance,Music
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Surf Wave Visualization

Collecting, graphing, and producing a physical construction of wave acceleration surfed in the Rockaways, Queens.

Alan Winslow

https://youtu.be/zpgQ6j7HD5E

Description

For this piece, I attached a circuit measuring and recording acceleration in my wetsuit and brought out to the beach for a surf session. The resulting data was graphed, and the waves surfed were separated from the other data. The wave data was then turned into a vector to be laser cut in acrylic for the final pieces.

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Intro to Phys. Comp.
Art
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Wall Bear

A wall hanging Tamagachi you must feed bio data and intentionality to ensure it doesn't annoy you.

Duncan Figurski

https://youtu.be/s2iRO6uUlQ0

Description

Finding time to be intentional or playful can be challenging, and often the spontaneity of spending a moment on something frivolous can evade us. I wanted to create an animal that lived on your wall and demanded play in intermittent cycles to break up the monotony of the day. The Wall Bear uses blood oxygen levels, or when set to a different mode uses the sensor as a small theremin to give you an opportunity to have more fun with the notes. If you do not feed it it will sonically nudge you to a more playful place, the hope being that an air of seriousness can be dislodged.

Originally meant to incite meditative practice the Wall Bear was shifted to take on a more childlike personality, the action becomes more about preoccupying a restless child than finding a moment of calm. Hopefully that restless child is you, and in this moment of preoccupation you can find a lightness in your day, a new way of experiencing time, and a new enjoyment for the frivolous.

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Intro to Phys. Comp.
Play/Games
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Microhabitat

A microhabitat is a virtual open-door to a tiny habitat that can be seen only through a microscope.

Jung Huh

https://vimeo.com/488923446

Description

A microhabitat is a virtual open-door to a tiny habitat that can be seen only through a microscope. It welcomes audiences to a tiny room of a person living in NYC. The tour is not as big and fancy as you see in many of YouTube's’ open doors. Comparing the size of the room to that of other open door videos, it may feel like looking into microscope slides where details are only visible via a microscope.

The work brings the housing problem the 20s and 30s are facing. Finding a habitat has become more difficult. The more you get close to the central part, such as NYC or Seoul, the more expensive rents get making it tougher to find a place, and the smaller the room becomes. However, no matter how small the room may be, there lives a person with their own unique story and a big dream.

The audience peeks into the small room of a person through a microscope that has two controllers. Using the knob on the right side, a stage controller, the audience can look around the room as it rotates the camera situated at the center of the microhabitat. Using the knob on the left side, coarse adjustment, the user can look into the details on specific objects located in the room. Each object contains a personal story of the person living there as if you see the product details of objects that YouTube has in one's open-door video.

Virtual Experience
https://editor.p5js.org/jhuh3226/present/ErsWzJ5mn

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Intro to Phys. Comp., ICM – Media
Narrative/Storytelling,Social Good/Activism
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You can't touch my balloon

Preserve your balloons digitally

Michael Zhou

https://youtu.be/gxtMdJnkkNw

Description

After coming to the states, I was shocked and excited when I learned there are stores that sell and only sell balloons. For someone who will stop crying if he could get a double-layered balloon outside the hospital before seeing the doctor, that's like the best place in the world. Maybe after the shops only sell candies. Of course, when I still was a child, I don't cry before seeing a doctor now. I enjoyed the satisfaction of blowing a tiny rubber into a large ball. It felt great when you consider blowing a balloon as capturing air, the thing we cannot touch or see. However, a balloon pops and deflates. And you can't get all the colors you want; even you own a balloon shop. So I wanted to create a device that can provide the same physical sensation of blowing a balloon while providing countless colors and preserving each balloon made.

The physical device contains a pressure sensor and several RGB LEDs while connecting to a p5 sketch on the laptop. The size of the digital balloon reacts to the physical one in real-time. The user can press the button on the top to pick a color and then blow up the balloon through the device. To push the button again, users can release the digital balloon they just created.

Since each balloon is unique in size and color, the user who created the balloon will feel the balloon belongs to them; even it is only a digital one. They will be satisfied to see their balloon safely floating in the virtual space. Hence to the title, You can't touch my balloon.

ITPG-GT.2301.00007
Intro to Phys. Comp.
Play/Games
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PComp Mountain

Theme parks, especially rollercoasters are incredibly inaccessible during the pandemic, so I built a model coaster complete with effects to simulate the excitement of going on a rollercoaster.

Zachary Kampf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2GxTO9iXE&feature=emb_logo

Description

Using K'nex (a children's construction toy) I built a fully working model rollercoaster. In addition to the coaster, I set up the track with lights and sound/animation triggers to bring home the fun and excitement of riding a rollercoaster while theme parks are largely inaccessible during the pandemic.

ITPG-GT.2301.00002
Intro to Phys. Comp.
Play/Games
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ITP Weather Band: Introduction

ITP Weather Band is an experimental band creating music, interactive objects, and visuals with weather data collected from a DIY weather station. Come meet the band and learn about our weather system.

Atchareeya Name Jattuporn, Lu Lyu, Cy Kim, Schuyler DeVos, Siyuan Zan, Sihan Zhang, Yiting Liu, Yeseul Song

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivoY25uYfN_zJ3dkhvGiS7i4OoCJO5qt

Description

ITP Weather Band is an experimental band creating music, interactive objects, and visuals with weather data collected from a DIY weather station. We built a DIY weather station system and created experimental instruments that turn the environmental data into music and visuals. We explore new ways of delivering information and stories about our immediate environment through the auditory and visual sense. We’re growing into an open source project.

The band consists of faculties, alums, and graduate students at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU ITP) and beyond. We started the weather station project in 2019 as a sub-group of ITPower and launched the band in January 2020.

See here for the details and full credits https://github.com/ITPNYU/weather-band.

We had a special collaborator, Yichan Wang (https://yichanwang.me/) pursuing her MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design, for the weather band website.

At the winter show 2020, we're introducing:

* ITP Weather Station System by ITP Weather Band
A DIY weather station system that posts data to the web to be accessed from anywhere in the world for creative projects.

* Weather Data Visualization Interfaces by Yiting Liu, Atchareeya Name Jattuporn, and Cy Kim
On this website, you get to see the visualization of all the data or select a specific part of data based on dates, id numbers, and categories.

* Weather Band Website by Yichan Wang (New School, visual system design) and Schuyler W DeVos (development).
A visual system and website with a graphical weather mobile that sensitively reacts to the real-time weather data.

* Weather Instruments made by the band members, including

Meteor Shower by Sihan Zhang
: A p5 sketch that generates a meteor shower scene and relaxing music using wind and rain data

Gust Sound by Lu Lyu (shown at a separate spot on Yorb)
https://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2020/2-5-miracle-and-gust-sound/

Leaf Dance by Siyuan Zan (shown at a separate spot on Yorb)
https://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2020/leaf-dance/

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Understanding Networks, Intro to Phys. Comp., ITP Weather Band
Sound,Sustainability
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Pixel Topographies

Pixel Topographies uses machine learning to generate elevation maps based on Connecticut topography, then creates a tangible 3D representation of that data.

Philip Cadoux

https://vimeo.com/488813688

Description

My family sold the house I grew up in this year, which was very sudden, but for the best. I had never really been that connected to my home state, but when I discovered I may never go back there, I realized that I had come to really appreciate it as a place to grow up. We ended up renting a house not too far from where I grew up to get through the pandemic, but it made me think about what it was that caused me to become so nostalgic. What kept popping into my head was that it is a beautiful place. It has lovely forests, beautiful colors, coastal towns, and even a few mountains. Then, I stumbled across a site which shows the elevation in CT using colors.

This inspired me, I created an ElevationGAN and used Runway's hostel model feature to grab the images generated. I then used p5.js to process down the images into a pixel grid. From there, I used serial communication to send the elevation data to an Arduino, which actuated pixels in and out to reflect these values. This is a proof of concept piece that could be scaled up to create 1:1 representations of elevation maps – ultimately creating wooden topographies. I have plans to elaborate on this ML model and try new things. 

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Intro to Phys. Comp., Machine Learning for the Web (Online)
Art,Machine Learning