Lissajous Curves are a family of parametric functions that define X and Y in terms of a pair of sinusoids. By varing the frequency of each sine wave as well as the phase difference between them a variety of harmonic shapes can be created. The appearance of the curve is largely tied to the ratio [...]
Keep Reading »Media Garden was part of the UCSB Primavera festival and featured several performances by MAT students. I collaborated with the Rhythm Seminar for the first part of the event. The Rhythm Seminar, organized by Professor Matt Wright, consisted of several students recording, sampling, and processing live audio. They restricted themselves to only using sounds that [...]
Keep Reading »My first project for MAT594CM: Spatial Computing explored flocking behavior where a group of entities move in three dimensions with their own velocities but are influenced by the movements and positions of other members of the flock. The movement is influenced by running a set of rules that generates a relative velocity vector that is [...]
Keep Reading »Most video compression algorithms are designed for live-action video which contains shades of color that can be easily compressed. My animations tend to change very rapidly and employ many very different colors which means that compression has a hard time working without drastically reducing the image quality. To combat this I have signed up for [...]
Keep Reading »For the month of April 2009 four 11×14 still frames titled Digital Refinement are on display in the Gallery Lounge of the University Center at UC Santa Barbara. A fellow MAT artist, Reza Ali, also has four stills on display in this exhibit. Below are low-res images of the displayed works:
Keep Reading »Below are two preliminary videos using new parameter control modes that I am working on. In each of these, parameters such as level of background fading, rotation speed and color characteristics are being automatically changed at a pre-determined interval using another control program that I am writing. More information to come. Razzle MIDI Control: Stripes [...]
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