Processing sketch/test to make a semantic polar grid with some bezier connections. Made to be exported as a PDF and then adjusted in Illustrator.

Sankey diagram test made using some dummy data.
Made with Processing. Refined in Illustrator [gradients, etc.]

A flow diagram test generated in Processing, output as a PDF and modified with Illustrator [the gradients].

Facebook collager

Image taken from http://www.nytimes.com/

Trying to recompose this image with mined Facebook profile images.  The brightness of the profile images matched [with limited effect] to regions within the base image.  It didn't entirely work, but still looks interesting.

Who's doing who?

Since one of the students asked how a radial convergence diagram could be made in Processing... I set out to find some data that would be appropriate for a test run.

This [draft] displays a list of the more popular actors and their connections to other actors. Each connecting line is a movie they both have starred in - more movies equates to a larger/bolder line. The more connections an actor has the redder their name becomes.

Party Splitter is live

Per the Oatmeal:

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

Check-Splitter app under way

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

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

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

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.

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.

Map my brain.

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.

It has been a while...

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

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

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

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

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!

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

back to school

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

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

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

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