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

more doggy time

i couldn't resist.  more to come.

doggy time

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

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

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]