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     Project name: Road Shadows     Project members: Maxwell Sigrest     For my performance, I plan to let my video play, while I explain some of the technical choices behind what I did. I will explain the cache, edge and difference TOPs, how they work and how I implemented them into my work. I will show how the audio capture works, showing how notes of the same volume but different ranges effect the circle and edge movement.     My aesthetic is very calming and reminscient, made to make you remember 50 degree nights on the easy coast. The cars driving by and the trees, with the dusk background and there to make you remember summer nights and long car rides. The "shadows" are made by comparing frames between the video and boosting the brightness with a level. There is also audio capture, with it capturing low bass and middle notes, each effecting two different parts. The bass makes the circle in the center grow, and the middle notes effect th...

    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 created a scene based off of the photo shown, pixelated strong pastel like colors on top of a monochrome black and white scene. My scene is very similiar, with 2 photos, one of a enviorment I monochromed, and another of a tree I found that is used as the center piece. My process starts with me editing the photo of the singular tree I found in canva. I used the programs background removal tool to make the enviorment white, leaving the only color in the photo being the tree itself. With this photo of the tree on the white background, I start the color selection process. I run the photo through 4 different Chroma Key TOP's, selecting 4...

      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...