TRavis: 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011

Door/Elevator

We open doors everyday to our destination and sometimes it could be a door to somewhere unknown. When I was taking an elevator to an office the other day, I found out everybody dressed up very differently because behind the doors each floor has different company. So, some people dressed up as business men for their daily office jobs, and the others dressed up like a rock stars for maybe some magazine photo shots. In this tiny space everybody waits for the doors open to start their different lives.

I was festinated by the scene behind the doors every time, and how people interactive with each other or all of the people in different moods and different face expressions before they start their journey of a day. So, I want to take this chance as a motion graphic/ 3d Artist to use an elevator as an intersection also a gate of unknown future, and then display different themes, animation and characters related to doors by a projector. I believe by showing the video could allowed people preview their lives or other's lives.

Research/Reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3n8j2uWA8o
http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/04/the-art-of-the-elevator-pitch-10-great-tips.php

Concept 02.

Love language

I saw a couple walked on the street, a girl said "I almost only watch entertainment news." and, the boy was smiling and nodding his head said "I usually watch sports news." Then, the girl said, Oh, we are like opposite. In a relationship, boys and girls think very differently, the words boys say oftenly mean nothing close to girl's thought, and boys and girls have different definition of spending some time together, or even receiving the same gifts but they are different signs in boys and girls mind. In this condition, I believe even we are not couple counselor or expert everybody could have a long speech from their experiences.

I would like to make a video and show a girl and a boy are having the same schedule for a date, what do they think and how do they react to the same thing or what's really in their minds in 2 different love languages.

Research/Reference

http://headdrama.com/article/love/30/7920/love-in-different-languages
http://momitforward.com/forums/showthread.php/889-The-Five-Love-Languages-Book-Club-Discussion/page4

Concept 01.

I'm a superhero too.

While reading comic books people always wish they could be the main character or one of the superheroes saved the world. At the gaming world, customize our own character isn't really a fresh idea but this never happened in comic books, so if we can actually read our own comic and be the main character that we dream of, that will be a unique story reading experience. People don't have to be superman or other superheroes, they could be just themselves and have their own epic battles, be the one speak out the touching line and save our love and friends from villains in this comic book.

This could be an app prototype to display how people can customize their look and outfit also simulates a different style to read a comic book.

Research/Reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7wrCUIGnc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEzrChVhEI&feature=related

AR/ Augmented Reality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
http://www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm
http://mashable.com/2009/12/05/augmented-reality-iphone/

Friday, November 4, 2011

Midterm01

import processing.serial.*;
import cc.arduino.*;
int sensorUsed = 0; //Set
this to whatever input sensor io pin you're using
PImage bird;
Arduino arduino;
void setup() {
size(400, 400);
arduino = new Arduino(this,
Arduino.list()[0], 57600);

for (int i = 0; i <= 13;
i++) //prepare all the pins for
receiving input
arduino.pinMode(i,
Arduino.INPUT);
imageMode(CENTER);
}
void draw() {
background(255);
fill(0, 0, 255);

//if the sensor switch
float sensorValue =
arduino.analogRead(sensorUsed);
float sensorValueMapped =
map (sensorValue, 0, 200, 500, width);
bird =
loadImage("Bwire.jpg");
image(bird, width/2,
height/2, sensorValueMapped, 400);

}

Midterm02

import processing.serial.*;
import cc.arduino.*;
import processing.video.*;
int sensorUsed = 0; //Set
this to whatever input sensor io pin you're using
PImage cat;
Movie myMovie;
//color myMovieColors[];
Arduino arduino;
int switcher = 0;
void setup() {
size(641, 481, P2D);
arduino = new Arduino(this,
Arduino.list()[0], 57600);
myMovie = new Movie(this,
"../Bwire.mov");
myMovie.loop();
image(myMovie, 0, 0);
}
void movieEvent(Movie m) {
m.read();

}
void draw() {
image(myMovie, 0, 0);
fill(0, 0, 255);
//if the sensor switch
float sensorValue =
arduino.analogRead(sensorUsed);
float sensorValueMapped =
map (sensorValue, 0, 1024, 150, width);
tint(255);
if(sensorValueMapped
> 400){
myMovie.loop();
switcher = 1;
}
else if (sensorValueMapped
== 150){
if (switcher == 0)
myMovie.jump(2);
if (switcher == 1)
myMovie.pause();
}

println(sensorValueMapped);
}

Sunday, October 9, 2011

5in5 #P5 Catwalk

5in5 Project#5 Catwalk

This project is my final project of this 5in5 project. The main character is still my cat, I recorded him walked over the room and again I edited ths video brought it to Processing.

When you load the code you will see the video is not playing well at begining that is because this code basically allow you to forward or reverse the video by the horizon of your mouse direction. So that is also the purpose I shoot the video of my cat walk over from left to right direction.

5in5 #P4 Meow

5in5 Project#4 Meow

At this project, it still is a cat topic project. First of all, I recorded meow sound from my cat and I edited it short in order to import to Processing.

So when you hit the "M" key, basically this code will show you the sound wave based on the cat's sound, also it depends on the frequency of hitting that key, sound wave will show up differently.

5in5 #P3 3D Cat

5in5 project#3 3D cat

I extended the topic from last project, I still chose cat as my topic. At this project, I took a picture of my cat, and I painted the picture in Photoshop as 3D texture later I imported the image as resource to the code.

Inside of this code there is a sphere with my cat image attached. when you shift around your mouse, you can see this cat head ball rotating at the center in 360 degree in all xyz directions.

5in5 #P2 Cats in the world

5in5 Project#2 Cats in the world

I started a new project at second day, I used cat as a topic and I found seven different language(Enlish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, German, Polish )to type cat and display it randomly in different size and color and also layout differently in the frame.

Because Chinese and Japanese are different character based, so I have to figure out the unicode in order to show on processing. Other languares I just have to translate one by one in multi-language translator.

5in5 #P1 Lucky Color

5in5 Project #1 Lucky Color

I had a tough day it inspired me to think about fortune and luck, so I found a code connected to color and shows Color Hue /Saturation /Value, it also gives out the result which is the brightest and average, darkest. After regenerating the color band, it shows another brand new result.

I combine this code with very basic color Psychology. Brighter colors catch people's attention and dark colors always give people negative energy.So, I re write the code and present it as a interesting lucky color furtune teller.