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Party Splitter is live

2011-09-27T17:21:00.000-04:00

Per the Oatmeal:

Solve the problem of splitting your check after a meal... download 'Party Splitter'

Check-Splitter app under way

2011-09-08T12:08:00.000-04:00

Under development: Check-Spliter. A small app that will divide the check evenly or specifically.
Though there are many apps like it, this one will allow you to easily distribute individual items as well as shared items. More to come, stay tuned.

Hurricane data

2011-08-29T12:49:00.000-04:00

Since that tropical storm passed through, Carson and I wrote a small Processing script that would record Tweets with the keywords of 'Hurricane' 'Storm' and 'Irene' with the intention to visualize the data somehow [to be done very soon].

Here are some observations from a cursory sweep of the data:
* People tend to retweet comical tweets
"RT @dgugnani: hurricane Irene is like #christmas- family & friends calling you, stores closed & at some point you may have a tree in your house!"

* Spike Lee tweets are especially popular for retweeting
RT @SpikeLee: On this Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina let's all pause and send Blessings and Prayers to those that lost their lives.GOD BLESS.AMEN.

* After the main storm had passed, people were a bit aggravated over the media hype

StillSpotting exploration

2011-03-31T17:05:00.000-04:00

A sketch I made using processing to visualize brain data and sound.
The outter blue ring is the sound wave, the inner blurs are the different recordings of brain data. The colors only appear when the brain data is at least one standard deviation from the average. The size, intensity, and location are determined through calculations concerning the abberation of the data and the sound levels at the coresponding time.

The brain and the image

2011-02-15T05:44:00.000-05:00

Method:

By giving some of my peers a short test involving the exposure to a series of randomly ordered images, I recorded some brain activity [presumably some from the actual perception of the image .. and some from ?] and then overlayed all of the readings for a particular image into a visualization.

Findings:

The tool [neurosky] definitely had its issues in providing steady data. With this small sample of subjects, a correlation between any sort of brain activity and an image could not be determined.

However, the visualizations show that the data varied from image to image. The visualization was made in processing using some simple commands to vary the placement of a Koch curve over time. The interesting outcome from all of this was the large variation in the visuals resulting from different sets of data going through the same algorithm.

*note: definitely not a controlled scientific experiment as much an visual generator.

Simple code. Interesting pattern.

2011-02-13T15:52:00.000-05:00

line(.5 * radius * cos(frameCount * .0001) + (frameCount * .01)%width,
.5 * radius * sin(frameCount * .001) + sin(frameCount * .04) + height/2,
-.5 * radius * cos(frameCount * .0001) + (frameCount * .01)%width,
-.5 * radius * sin(frameCount * .001) + sin(frameCount * .04) + height/2);

Central Park 2011_01_26 It snowed.

2011-01-26T23:12:00.000-05:00

Map my brain.

2011-01-26T22:41:00.002-05:00

Using the EEG sensor I recorded a few minutes of my brain activity.

Supposedly the bottom values [blue and red lines] correspond to the degree of meditation and attention I happened to be in at the time.

What will I do with this information? We'l find out.

Made with Processing.

Today I went to the dark side.

2011-01-26T22:32:00.000-05:00

It has been a while...

2011-01-19T00:34:00.002-05:00

Ooops. I got lazy.
Well... there will be interesting things to blog about, such as:
*What I did in the month of November.
*Christmas.
*Winter break with people.
*More GSAPP stuff - the entire 2nd half of Fall semester and the start of Spring.
*Etc.
This image of Yosemite will have to stand in until I finish my AAD portfolio draft and have some time to add more actual content to this thing.
Yosemite. December 30, 2010.

fast food = america

2010-10-18T14:17:00.000-04:00

a map of the continental us made from fast food locations.
[made in processing with csv's from mcdonalds, wendy's, dairy queen, pizza hut, and burger king]

i went to new haven today

2010-10-17T20:19:00.000-04:00

ok, this is not new haven [grand central station, nyc], but it looks neat anyway.

2010-09-27T03:56:00.000-04:00

testing a processing algorithm that takes in data from twitter [tweets] and analyzes the text strings [written my nate smith and me]. the result is an approximation of a flesch reading ease test roughly based off the content. limiting rules: from the 100 most recent picks, take those that have 15 words or more [smaller groupings of words really skew the test results], dont count certain words [@**, #**, http:**]. note: lower test results are supposed to indicate a higher reading level.
search: "sustainable" test average: 52

search: "dog" test average: 88

search: "hungry" test average: 80

search: "judicious" test average: 65

more images from today's adventures

2010-09-25T21:59:00.001-04:00

today we went on a short bike ride through the city.. on a quest to conquer a few flea markets. fried chicken, roof tops, wooden heads, rain boots, and slurpees were involved.

photography class images!

2010-09-25T21:55:00.001-04:00

click to go to the picassa page with the full set of images

back to school

2010-09-07T01:06:00.000-04:00

it was a good break. slightly more detailed tales of danger and mystery to come [when i have access to a proper computer.]

digital craft 2010 assignment 1d video

2010-08-25T03:10:00.000-04:00

notes: for the gsapp add digital craft class, summer 2010.
the assignment was to create an animation using the building we had been studying all semester. i was looking at PHOOEY Architect's Children's Activity Centre [located in australia].
tools used: rhino, max, after effects
time to make: including 'research' time, about a week.25
fun facts:
*several digital craft tutorial models were featured in the movie
*at one point, over 20 computers were rendering for me [not in renderfarm fashion]
*around 2,575 frames were rendered and used, [a few more were discarded], on our ancient computers some took 15+ minutes/frame. most took about 5-8 minutes.

and, as a bonus, a few more of my favorite 'progress renders':

compilation of video stuff

2010-08-25T02:55:00.001-04:00

in the quest to make the digital craft video i performed a lot of tests.. which resulted in this 'outtakes' reel:

a quick picture of my model

2010-08-19T11:52:00.000-04:00

3d print stair + laser etched acrylic
project: children's activty centre by phooey architects

more doggy time

2010-08-13T02:36:00.000-04:00

i couldn't resist. more to come.

doggy time

2010-08-13T02:30:00.000-04:00

working on something. these are some progress renders. eventually i'll finish it all up and post the video that goes along with it [from it].

time to work

2010-08-02T05:00:00.000-04:00

the final presentation for our summer studio is this friday, the 6th [stop by if you want] - i have a lot of work ahead of me.
until i have something interesting to post, i'll just throw up a few of my modular unit drawings [in elevation]. these little systems are intended emulate the possibilities of the transforming the structure as a whole based on the minute movements of each individual component. the distance between units will be controlled via servos at each 'leg' and somehow they will illustrate an expansion and contraction of the collection.
i sent for the laser cuts this afternoon, so the actual physical model will come later this week. [i know these are not pretty, but they'll do for now]

rendering mies

2010-07-28T02:40:00.000-04:00

another tutorial for digital craft. this time on materiality.
note: the model itself is kinda crappy because it was the first one i ever built [for the first tutorial this semester]

model for the night

2010-07-26T05:19:00.000-04:00

the result of hours of toying around in grasshopper. it isnt quite there yet, but hopefully it will be there soon

saturday

2010-07-24T18:37:00.002-04:00

in the red

2010-07-23T20:54:00.002-04:00

coming from california i never got to experience a red zone storm. now i have, and it was nuts.

the never never installation

2010-07-21T03:56:00.000-04:00

for studio we had to come up with an 'installation' for our final presentation. after going back and forth we came up with this sort of design. while it was not the best design in the world, we felt it had a few good qualities. but, alas, it will never be. instead we will make a much simpler version [images of that will come as we make it].
here are renders of that first possible installation:

kira qwan is:

2010-07-18T04:27:00.000-04:00

photoshop > rhino > illustrator > photoshop

.. and the same kind of thing using grasshopper

2010-07-15T13:57:00.002-04:00

grasshopper > rhino > max

nightly digital exercise

2010-07-15T03:03:00.002-04:00

a parametric bridge of sorts made in max

i'm awesome

2010-07-13T22:30:00.002-04:00

i tried to make a little something in afterEffects. it may be useless, but looks neat. better videos to come in the future.

and then there is this little number - testing particle simulations
music by the ever amazing will stratton

desktop background

2010-07-10T19:03:00.000-04:00

celebrate jr.

megan strikes again

2010-07-08T22:37:00.000-04:00

some key images - courtesy of the moon

this prettymuch sums it up.

more of the children's center

2010-07-07T02:47:00.000-04:00

more updated renders for the assignment [2.75 hours late though]

children's activity center

2010-07-06T03:34:00.000-04:00

another digital craft assignment: modeling a building
i chose phooey architect's children's activity center in melbourne, australia.
better renders to come.

july 4th

2010-07-04T23:59:00.000-04:00

images from the day.

barcelona chair tutorial

2010-07-02T03:09:00.000-04:00

a render from the barcelona chair tutorial [for digital craft class]
done in max [while listening to some awesome music - jenny's pandora mix of: joe purdy radio, macy gray radio, the ambiguous 'great station,' and paula abdul radio]

"its architecture"

2010-06-30T22:23:00.000-04:00

another grasshopper run

2010-06-28T04:04:00.000-04:00

this one is about changing the overall form by using an attractor on the top curve of the surface. the rest is filled in after the manipulation. [note: i could not figure out how to perform a proper sweep. next time]

city collages

2010-06-28T03:38:00.000-04:00

max tutorials...

2010-06-27T23:07:00.002-04:00

an introduction to 3dMax: park cafe by sanaa tutorial

iris v. 2

2010-06-27T15:47:00.001-04:00

the updated version of the iris

and the laser cutting layout

grasshopper and rhino

2010-06-27T15:13:00.001-04:00

this was a quick animation i made testing point attractors in grasshopper.

here is an image with spheres attached to the points:

furry

2010-06-27T15:11:00.002-04:00

video testing adobe after effects + a quick video made in max.

the iris machine

2010-06-27T13:40:00.010-04:00

the initial design for the iris machine

it is about time

2010-06-27T13:39:00.001-04:00

why am i making this new blog? because the other one was a bit difficult to update. let's see if i use this one a bit more.