IGME 470 MKS Blog

      The Charles Gains artwork I was inspired by most to work off of is one of his trees, specifically being Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II. The base of his art is a black and white photo of Central Park, being of trees. He then layers the photo with a grid and series of squares, that are built upon the calculations of the last artwork. I plan to make a scene based on the type Charles Gains have. I will take two photos, one of a beautiful environment to make black and grey, and the other of a standalone tree that I can mask the background out off. I will overlap the tree photo on top of the black and white background photo, using TD to create a composite image of the tree, turning it into a grid, and having different colored pixels based on the brightness of each grid square it is overlapping with. I plan to make start with two movieFileIn's, one being the black and white background photo, and the other being the singular tree. I will use a resolution and a to...

     Car crashes are never a good thing, and can put someone into serious harm or financial trouble. And while Manhattan is known for its skylines and beautiful attractions, they busy streets can cause a lot of car accidents. I wanted my visual to remind people to drive more carefully, be more aware of your surroundings, and to always make sure your are driving to the best of your ability. You can move the slider in the window to change the date of information. The information changing is the number of car accidents that happened in Manhattan on that certain day, and that is conveyed both with the number and the bar that moves. I started with a single container, with a slider inside. The slider will make the interactivity, with the container background showing all the visuals. The slider connects to a panel chop, which connects to two different math chops. One math chop changes the slider for the x-position, and the second one changes the slider range for the date-to-cras...

My data source is the Motor Vehicle Collision - Crashes data source from data.gov. This tracks motor vehicle collisions in NYC https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/motor-vehicle-collisions-crashes I will show the different types of collisions, results, and causes in a chart that can meaningfully show and tell the user about the likely hood and incident types and results. I would like to provide my data as a pie charts with different types of wheels as individual sections, or perhaps as different size cars in a bar chart. I will have a time slider where you can move it and data will change as time increases. Car accidents are no joke, and the outcomes are always never positive. My mood will be a gloomy one, with dark tones and colors, non-vibrant colors, and information and text that brings the user right to the point.

 Mood Mix, Assignment Number 1: I wanted to create a network of two movie file ins, with texts and nulls following them into cross. The cross would have its cross ability controlled by a slider. This slider will go through a panel, math, and then null to make sure it functions properly. The cross will be sent to a window panel so it can be projected onto the screen. The texts for each movie file in will properly represent the scenes they are trying to portray. I created this exactly as I expected to, with no other modifications or changes along the way. I wanted to include videos I have shot myself while I have explored the planet. One of the videos is from a trip I had to Wyoming where we visited Yellowstone national park. The other video is from right around Rochester along the Genesee river, at a boat launch. The Wyoming video is supposed to spark awe and amazement into the user, showing large scale and size compared to the world. The river video is supposed to be melancholy and...

 I wanted to create a network flow of two controls for the scene, a button that allowed you to pause/un-pause the video, and a horizontal slider that controlled the amount of blue overlay on the scene. What I created was super similar, with the only major difference being I used a vertical slider instead of a horizontal one. My TD flow was split into two containers, one for my controls, and one for my scene. In my controls, I started with the button and slider I needed for my scene controls. I hooked both of them up to panels, and then sent their info through two different respective paths. I send the slider through a math then a null, in order to convert its range from 0-1 to 0-5. I also sent the button through a logic and then a null, to make sure the button had a toggle effect, not just a hold down one. In the other container I used a movie file and a constant for my effects. The play in the moviefilein is connected to the button, and the blue rgb in the constant is connected to...

      This project is my final one, and I am super happy and sad to be at the end. I have learned so much in this course, and also had so much fun. There was a lot of creativity and design in making these projects, and I got to work hands on in NMID for the first time, which is something I will never say no to. This project layout will be the one I keep my Arduino as. The board setup works between my Snake and Tetris code, and is a great way to show what I learned in this class. The components for this one are the same as the Snake Arduino setup. The joystick is necessary for movement controls, like it was in Snake. Left and right move the pieces, down sends the pieces downwards, and up rotates the pieces so you can control their fit. The 8x8 LED array is meant to convey what the current game-board looks like, and when your current piece under control is moving. The last parts are the wire connectors, which connect the 5v, Ground, 8x8 LED array, and Joystick all to the Ar...